WATER SEATTLE PUBLIC UTILITIES SOAKS SUBURBAN CUSTOMERS.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: May 30, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Seattle Public Utilities director Diana Gale is preparing to soak suburban water users in a grandstand play that disguises a salmon recovery program as a water conservation program. In fact, the poorly conceived ``conservation initiative'' is merely an expensive PR campaign that won't save a single Chinook, but will force people who live in Seattle's outlying communities to pony up 50 percent of the program's cost over the next 10 years.

Gale's charade is paternalistic, ...