Whats that Sound!

[SASKFARMER3]

Your right, hell when I am overseas or in USA or anywhere the farmers and water authority work together to create system but in Sask its small town politics that just burns me. Have three friends his wife and two cousins and wins his division and unless he screws up real bad has a life long job. WOW what a system.

[smallguy]

Im new here, What a site for radicals and people with no morals. Any one that things draining water onto other peoples land is okay, then I see why some of you spend so much time on this site. YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS TO TALK TO.

[SASKFARMER3]

No i never said its OK to drain onto the neighbors but into a natural water way damn strait it is. No were not radicals that the CWB supporters.

[grrrr]

Well, it seems that the only thing we will all agree upon is that the water authority in Saskatchewan is a joke. We will agree to disagree on the water drainage issue. As Mark Twain said, "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over."

[LWeber]

Dont know if it is true or not but a story in the early 2000's had a farmer from SW Manitoba shooting a 4430 attached to a drainage pump until it died with a 30/30.

Shot it 20 times...

Nothing dies like a Deere.

[checking]

Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over. Only if someone is diluting my whiskey with water. (lol)

We will agree to disagree on the water drainage issue. Not if you recognize that most water complaints have nothing to do with water.

Gregpet, you brought up an excellent point on downpours. Grrr would you be swayed to the fairness side if your closed basin ratepayers experienced a localized downpour event of a six inch rain that filled the basin? Upstream, four miles away, recorded a tenth inch.

True story. The next morning, the basin dweller was in the air taking pictures of my dry sloughs, and his filled ones as proof that I had caused his crop loss. If your council had had the final say I'd have been strung up by nightfall. Fortunately, the watershed authority wasn't so easily duped.

All I'd ask of you is that, as a representative, to recognize the true agendas out there, and to be fair in who you accuse of draining water.

[oneoff]

I posted "grrr It also isn't OK to single out unidentified individuals 20 miles away. I have respect for those who call a spade a spade; but don't omit the obvious possibility of drainage contributions from much closer individuals such as your own municipal road system and neighbors; friends and even yourself that you would rather not confront. What goes around also comes around; and it plain cowardice to blame everthing on what may or may not be going on 20 miles away. Just say you also agree with my points and we would have a basis to continue this discussion. "
If your answer was
"Well, it seems that the only thing we will all agree upon is that the water authority in Saskatchewan is a joke. We will agree to disagree on the water drainage issue. As Mark Twain said, "Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over." "
THEN I say it is time for an overhaul of the municipal level of government. The "water authority" is not a joke; and this attitude shows how elected officials don't understand the democratic process and how it is supposed to work. Its because of this attitude that problems and challenges can't be solved in this province.
I'm not attacking your personal opinion; but rather the context in which you tied it to your public job as councillor.

[checking]

Smallguy, this site is far more informative and entertaining than listening to the same old whining neighbours at the JD coffee table while the mechanics patch the 30/30 holes in my radiator. (lol)

[per]

Not taking any sides here and I am from an area in Alberta that cooperates on water issues so don't have a horse in this race. I just wanted to point out that there are some important environmental benefits to sloughs and wet lands that could come back to bite in the future.

[oneoff]

Sure there are at least two sides to every story (besides the truth). There are also mitigation possibilities, issues of tolerance and the willingness to consider that there are possible circumstances that have been overlooked . What bothers me the most are sanctimonious persons who readily and firmly believe the conclusions they come to. I have observed that these persons don't contribute much more than unjustly labelling some people who are not radicals or not up to the sanctimonios persons moral standard.

[oneoff]

Ever notice the network of roads almost anywhere you go. Those ditches are never designed to store water. I dare anyone to explain how the ditches on either side are not one of the largest contributors to unnatural flows of water. Thus the comments of municipal officials are suspect. "Elected" officials who appear ready to stomp out every instance (as long as they carefully make sure its outside their own municipality which is ordinaarily a maximum of 18 miles away); and who can not see the double standard; are often times playing to strong hypocites. Reasoning with hypocrites or trying to appease hypocites is not fruitful.

[mbratrud]

I like to ditch on by farm, but just to be the devils advocate.. If its about land improovment why couldnt I bring in an earth mover to move my hill tops into the low areas... My low area might be in the corner of the field my neighbor ditched to... how would that go over?