Month: May 2016

Meetings, Quarterly

June 2016 General Membership Meeting Agenda

WIWSA

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING JUNE  15, 2016 — 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM AT CENTRAL WHIDBEY ISLAND FIRE & RESCUE 1164 RACE ROAD, COUPEVILLE, WA                                                                   AGENDA Call to order                                                              Member and guest introductions Quorum call                                                              Verification of membership Approve Agenda                                                     Vote to approve Agenda Introduction of special guest:  Ms. Arlene Hyatt, Capacity Development Project Manager at the Washington State DOH Office of Drinking Water Secretary’s Report    Willy LaRue will present the Minutes for the March 17, 2016 General Membership Meeting.  Vote to approve the Minutes. Treasurer’s Report    John Lovie will present the Treasurer’s Report.  Vote to approve the Treasurer’s Report. … Continue reading June 2016 General Membership Meeting Agenda

President's Message

WIWSA President’s Message June 2016

WIWSA

Just recently, I had the pleasure and opportunity to sit with three representatives of a local ground water system which had just added new residents to their community and were moving up from a Group B to a Group A water system.  You all know our WIWSA mantra about the smartest thing that a Group B can do is to behave like a Group A water system by observing the federal and state rules for the larger systems.  Those rules were put into place in order to protect communities from unsafe drinking water and unwise business practices. The folks who … Continue reading WIWSA President’s Message June 2016

News

Drinking in the View

WIWSA

Drinking in the View BY SHARON BETCHER Whidbey Life Magazine Contributor May 18, 2016 On the island, water can seem mesmerizingly ubiquitous. We drink in the view from every possible angle. But drinking in the aqueous view can deceive us. Despite the water that stretches to the horizon in every direction, we actually have a limited supply of fresh drinking water, and that supply is intimately related to our habits—from where we build our homes to how our excretes percolate through the soil and reenter the groundwater. More… Continue reading Drinking in the View