Got Lost in MWP Translation

REVISION:  Link to my TM1-9 summary has been repaired.  Thanks for notifying me it was broken!

UPDATE:  Forgot to include one of the most important costs-to-customers factors:

treatment costs in the winter DC $363/ML compared to MH $83/ML. 
So why don't we use Mission Hill during the 7 months of winter?
"Contractual obligations," according to GVW.



Yup, lost and dizzy, back and forth to other TMs, and back again to TM9.

But there's already been a professional review of the Master Water Plan.

Yes.
In 2013.
By Michael Stamhuis, whose review was incorporated into my summary here. 

Included is data I felt was critical (probably the same thing that GVW encouraged consultants to do with 9 memoranda that had 55 revisions).

"Certainly saved the floor from felt pen marks," says Kia.

Waters' Poor Relatives?

...yet according to the Okanagan Basin Water Board's motto, Kelowna and Armstrong might as well be in another province.

Source:  Okanagan Basin Water Board website

One valley, yes.
One water, supposedly.

If it's one valley and one water, the problem must be too many bureaucrats.
Bureaucrats who may have erred in choosing Duteau Creek as a water source.

All signs point to that as the Stakeholders Advisory Committee deliberates TM 9 (System Separation Option Analysis) this Thursday at RDNO's 8 a.m. meeting.

Open to the public.
Hint hint!

After having heard that Armstrong's water "mock" billing period has ended, and their rates published, it seems most folks pay about $65 to $85 annually for their residential water!

Thirty-one cents a cubic metre for water in Armstrong!

Then, we hear about a Kelowna resident on a city lot, two adults.
Covered was the annual period ending October 9, 2015.
Consumption?  390 cubic metres (so they must've had a wonderfully productive vegetable garden for their family and friends...good for them!)
Total bill, including sewer was $421.62!

My annual residential water bill?  At less than half the Kelowna example, my household of two adults used 155 cubic metres of water.  No veggie garden to speak of.
Total bill 2014, no sewer was $534.00.

"No wonder the North Okanagan is the poor relative of Kelowna and Armstrong," intones Kia.

Our wallets?
Full o' cobwebs...