[Vision2020] Re: Water for the dead

[Ralph Nielsen]

Water--
This community has a couple of mutually-exclusive ideas about our water
(meaning the aquifer beneath us).
One --the aquifer water is a resource we can use, and use up.
Two -- the aquifer water is irreplaceable and we should maintain it  
as is.

That leads us to chase the Naylor Farms proposal out of town, but  
embrace
the WSU golf course and the green lawn at the Moscow Cemetery.

I am conservative by nature, and want to support the maintenance of the
existing level of water in the aquifer.  It's like money in the  
bank.  In an
era of major climate change, maybe our children will need it.  So, I say
leave it there and adjust our lives to preserve it.

And therefore, I see no need to water the lawn at the Moscow  
Cemetery.  I
have been to all the public cemeteries in Latah County.  Only a few are
irrigated.  I do not think the beauty or reverence of the cemeteries are
determined by irrigation.  I think this Council's special deal on cheap
water for the cemetery is foolish.  The cemetery district officials  
should
not have made that request.
BL

If you'll pardon a little levity from a cemetery tax payer, may I  
quote slightly out of context from the Bible? "The living know that  
they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward,  
and even the memory of them is lost" (Ecclesiastes 9:5). I agree with  
Bill London. The dead do not need to be watered.
Ralph