2014 Water Consumption in Coldstream

Greater Vernon Water has no plans to cover revenue losses caused by their Stage 1 water restrictions (whose goal is to reduce consumption by 10 per cent).

Like all bureaucratic systems (it seems), they don't reduce their operations budget by the amount of lost revenue.

They simply raise the base fees (the amount charged to use NO water).
And the per cubic metre rate will continue to increase.

Problem solved in the bureaucratic mind.
If only the private sector could use the same tactics.

No accountability to the public purse is standard operating procedure for bureaucracy.
To hell with the taxpayers.

Greater Vernon Advisory Committee director Gyula Kiss (and director Bob Spiers) are the two lone voices on GVAC who oppose the effects on taxpayers of that bureaucratic system.

Gyula Kiss dissects myriad data to clearly show the disparities that arise from such a system.

He has produced this document, which provides the summary of water consumption and revenues for each quarter of last year in Coldstream.

Note that Quarter 3 (July August September) has the highest consumption, easily 50 per cent of total water use.
But only 41.7 per cent of revenues.


Nice accounting...probably most accurately described as Creative Accounting 101, or Fleecing Taxpayers 101.

"Bureaucracy graduated from the accounting courses they themselves designed," offers Kia as explanation.

But maybe Greater Vernon Advisory Committee directors--or the Board of Directors--will broaden their horizons (ahem!) and see what happened at Translink when top brass didn't listen to referendum results.


No sheep, Sherlock.