Editor,
My mother has decided to stop using water in her house altogether because she and my father are told they use 1,400 litres of water per day, the 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料 average, according to your wonderful article ["A shocking waste," The Chief, Aug. 27].
I am so worried. Your article has deeply impressed them. You see what you said would amount to the use of 70 times their toilet per day. And they said they would never do it.
They are in their 80s! My dear mother said that the sheer thought of them using their washroom 70 times per day makes her so sick.
So they decided not to use their washroom any longer. Oh, they now go outside. They have reduced drinking of water to less than two litres (for both) per day, which means that they'd use in one year only what you said is used in one day.
Ms. Paillard this is not enough. Please write an article of how much people should drink!
But I agree with you, this would put the consumption and use of water over 700 litres per day for us in 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料.
What a waste, Ms. Paillard. They do not wash their car any longer (they do not drive it, of course) and will never irrigate their lawn again. They had a small washing machine and gave it away.
Now they will taxi to the laundromat every three to four weeks keeping their clothes on all the time. Ms. Paillard they even gave notice to the person who rented one of their rooms because that would make it 2,100 litres of water per day in their house.
Imagine, that would be 21 bathtubs of water per day. My father was near a stroke. And they have now frozen a lot of water in the fridge and only consume ice cubes.
They were thinking, Ms. Paillard, of recycling their own water - an absolutely awful thought. Near their home is a well, actually, in their garden. They have sealed it so that no more water may run into 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料. And they will not receive any visitors neither, Ms. Paillard since that would amount to about two litres per day for tea, washing up and so on.
They want to reduce water use by using paper plates, which they can burn after their meals - or even eat their food from the table directly. The table does not have to be cleaned.
My father is studying that process of how to put that water from their garden into the system. They are studying that, really. With a pump, Ms. Paillard. They will pump the water into the system from the garden and then, Ms. Paillard, they will become actually negative water users.
My father calculated that he could give about 2,100 litres of water per day to the system, which would make them: water use neutral.
Oh, Ms. Paillard, what a day that would be for my father - direct donation, directly giving. So they could get back the person who was living with them.
My father is actually calculating that he could put 3,500 litres into the system and then take on many more people into his house.
He does not listen to me. I told him that this is not necessary but he wants to make a contribution.
Imagine, Ms. Paillard, how [District of 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料 councillor] Ms. [Patricia] Heintzman would be pleased when she is installing the water meters.
There would be thousands of people ready and able to contribute to the system and have negative water reading results. We would get money at the end of the month. Ms. Heintzman would be super happy and we would have all the water use solved.
Imagine, 18,000 people giving 700 litres of water per day back to our community, we would have over 12 million litres of water going to City Hall.
And City Hall would be awash, physically awash in water and could give it to Vancouver.
Oh Ms. Paillard, we are collecting all our rainwater now. There is more water in 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料 than we ever thought of. We could close the pool and all the restaurants that are so awfully wasting water.
All the pools would become collecting stations and we could give water to Australia or England. Remember London recycles water seven times.
This is all my father says, Ms. Paillard. I am his dutiful son and I am studying water chemistry. There is so much water in the air, Ms. Paillard, sooo much. In all those clouds that are flying by, daily.
And perhaps such clouds could be caught over your newspaper. Imagine how much water was used to make the paper for your article, said my father. To make paper, Ms. Paillard, needs water: A LOT.
Perhaps you could put your head into such a cloud, Ms. Paillard, and imagine that not writing your articles would be more helpful than driving my father to insanity.
We are so honoured to have you in 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料 where we use all that water for nothing.
Greetings from my father, too. He has stopped weeping since it is using too much water. Your admirer.
Ferdinand Vondruska
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