LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Editor:

Whitehouse Water Woes

For the past few weeks the national news has talked that water will become the next oil. From the sounds of rumors floating through Whitehouse, Texas, we will be the first to reach the concept of water costing more than oil and being in short supply.

What could our city "leaders" be thinking? I don't know a person that wants to spend their entire income on utilities and taxes. At least with electricity and telephone we have other options. Water is locked out of options. Oh, you might be thinking Lake Striker is OUR option? Lake Striker is a power plant lake. The raw water has to be pumped to Whitehouse through pipelines that don't exist and to a purification plant that doesn't exist. Whitehouse has a "superior water rating" at this time because the water department employees do their job and care about what they deliver to our homes for drinking, etc. I am ALL for water wells and self sufficiency, but buying raw water for a greater price per gallon than Tyler offers and then having to treat the raw water before it is delivered to our homes sounds ludicrous.

The recent issue of the Tri County Leader (Thursday, Oct. 25) spoke of another well in Whitehouse…YEAH! In the next sentence it was said we could be buying water from Troup…uck…I don't want brown water coming from my kitchen or any other faucet on my property.

There are reasons we all chose to move and live in Whitehouse. I don't choose to have my water coming from a power plant lake some 30 plus miles away when I know what the water quality is coming from Tyler.

I am asking the elected city leaders to belly up to the table and be honest with the Whitehouse residents NOW! We want the truth about what our future water will cost and where it is coming from.

Nancy Gibson Whitehouse