Is it just me or does anyone else wonder if a study, named ‘The Dunoon Dam Study’, might have already reached its conclusion before the first word is written?
Would Joshua Booyens (Letters, 10 January) be as enthusiastic to put his name to ‘The Water Tanks For Every Home Study’ for instance? It’s heartening to read that Joshua, an out and proud National Party candidate, wishes to drill down further into the finer details of cultural heritage despite a comprehensive assessment of this topic having been made in recent studies only ten years ago. Maybe Joshua believes Indigenous culture has radically changed in these past ten years, regardless of the fact it has previously endured intact for more than 60,000 years.
He also suggests that environmental issues need a fresh assessment as new information may come to light. This, despite informed experts having been documenting the coming environmental catastrophe since mid-last century. Admittedly it is possible these are new considerations for Joshua as his party has aggressively denied the existence of such issues up until this moment.
The question is, is Mr Booyens really qualified to offer any meaningful or objective contribution to another study of our future water security?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
