Volunteering to help manage a community’s water system is more complicated than just turning on the tap. The trustee of Krestova Improvement District’s water users group shares his experience.
Ico de Zwart steps over a PVC pipe where a steady leak drips near the intake collecting Krestova ’s drinking water. Nearby, scorch marks can be seen where residents were forced to use torches to thaw out the frozen pipes and water boxes last Christmas Eve. Volunteering to help manage a community’s water system, De Zwart has found, is more complicated than just turning on the tap.
“It’s really difficult for us to manage these projects while guys are trying to run their own businesses and do their regular jobs. The people who are involved, they’re also doing a lot of other stuff too. It’s almost a full-time job just to deal with the water supply.” De Zwart is a trustee with the Krestova Improvement District’s water users group. He’s lived in Krestova, located between Nelson and Castlegar, for 12 years, but only uses the community’s water for irrigation and relies on rainwater collected at his home to drink. That’s because Krestova has had a boil water notice in place since 1992, one of 28 community water systems in the Kootenays that have had such advisories since the 1990
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