No action on water in 16 years

In Cr Chris Holstein's latest political column on our water crisis, he tells us: "Someone needs to get on with the job of the fixing the problem."

Well, isn't that ironic.

He's been a Gosford councillor for 16 years, in the position of mayor for four years and on the Gosford-Wyong Water Authority.

During all of that time, he did absolutely nothing to plan our future by conserving water.

He did nothing other than transfer funds from the water-sewerage account to pay for the blowouts on the Gosford Stadium.

And the plan to build a pump station at the Upper Wyong River to supply our dam never eventuated in the 16 years he has been on council.

But what is breathtaking is that Cr Holstein criticises the State government for having a plan to build the Tillegra Dam and laments that it won't be operational until 2013.

Well, that is what's called "planning for the future".

For Cr Holstein to accuse the State Government of "failing to address the water crisis and has failed to plan and refusing to act" is just comical.

Jillian Donald Umina Beach