Nice summary in the Vancouver Sun this morning about multiple water projects now rolling. Major crossings of all the water bodies by massive pipes, 2-3m in diameter, what's needed for the 3 million people expected by July, the 4th million piling in quickly after.
How about a talk on "what the giant dumb government-supervised bureaucracy of Metro Vancouver is doing right, to keep up with water demand, bringing in most projects on-budget, and some under-budget".
The Canadaland podcast the other day was unequivocal that there's just nothing that the other two levels of government did, or could have done, nothing that private industry did, made up for the feds pulling out of "social housing" in the early 1990s, with a deficit of about 300,000 units today, compared to what the old system would have built by now.
Having come from a government-run waterworks monopoly, I know we were always forecasting and planning over a decade ahead to keep ahead of forecasts, with a contingency bump on top, (of course!) because you just don't play "maybe there will be enough" games with a vital resource.
I'll leave the comment there, the conclusion being both obvious, and politically unacceptable.
Great summary Russil!
Nice summary in the Vancouver Sun this morning about multiple water projects now rolling. Major crossings of all the water bodies by massive pipes, 2-3m in diameter, what's needed for the 3 million people expected by July, the 4th million piling in quickly after.
How about a talk on "what the giant dumb government-supervised bureaucracy of Metro Vancouver is doing right, to keep up with water demand, bringing in most projects on-budget, and some under-budget".
The Canadaland podcast the other day was unequivocal that there's just nothing that the other two levels of government did, or could have done, nothing that private industry did, made up for the feds pulling out of "social housing" in the early 1990s, with a deficit of about 300,000 units today, compared to what the old system would have built by now.
Having come from a government-run waterworks monopoly, I know we were always forecasting and planning over a decade ahead to keep ahead of forecasts, with a contingency bump on top, (of course!) because you just don't play "maybe there will be enough" games with a vital resource.
I'll leave the comment there, the conclusion being both obvious, and politically unacceptable.