North County should control its own water issues

Let’s see … work together to manage locally, or have the state tell us how much to cut back? Get down to it and that is the underlying Paso Robles water district decision, isn’t it?

Yes, form the water district and manage locally. Local resource control bears the best results. North County issues are unique, solutions are unique and local management should also be viewed as unique. We support people coming together, where others would pit neighbor against neighbor. If it doesn’t take as much money as the county thinks it will, then have the locally elected board change the budget and spend less. The city of Paso Robles is excluded from the proposed district, but the city is already organized to manage water and actively participates in Nacimiento, recycling and other regional efforts. We anticipate working with the future water district on similar regional efforts.

We work best together when North County takes care of North County issues. There is much to gain by pulling resources together in the form of a water district and to tell the state that we here in San Luis Obispo County can and will take care of local water issues.

This story was originally published February 26, 2016 at 8:26 PM with the headline "North County should control its own water issues."