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Hope from the sky
Dear Editor,
As the leaders of local government pass massive cost of water rates, they must think we are all making $45,000 a year as my friend is at the local factory. Sad to say but many of us don't make one third of that. As an elderly lady told me at my store, she was going to have to stop giving money to her church to pay for higher water bills as she has given up everything else to stay in McCook. Three other families since the word of massive water increases, say moving is their only option.
There is another option as my picture shows. I keep only two small 50-gallon barrels with a hose that fills both from that front part of the roof, and I wish not to scare you by showing the bigger containers in the back. I need only a 1/4 of an inch to fill these two barrels and sun- warmed water is a godsend to plants. We also use this water for other uses but will hold that info for another letter. There are others who have already learned to live without city and ground water by saving rain water when it falls and snow in the winter. As for the two barrels, they have collected over 600 gallons of water this summer and our total is over 6,000 gallons if we include the rest of our containers. You can wait 'til city water is a dollar a gallon but you will start collecting and saving rain water in the future!
Bill Donze
McCook