A young woman who recently purchased a home with her husband in the Sage Mesa area—serviced by a failing water system—received the loudest applause of the night when she called on the provincial government to pay its fair share of a multi-million-dollar infrastructure upgrade. Over 200 residents gathered Wednesday evening at West Bench Elementary School for a public meeting addressing the deteriorating Sage Mesa water system, which provides potable water to 242 property owners.

An engineer told the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) board last July that the entire water system was failing and would need to be replaced at a cost of about $17 million. The woman, speaking passionately, said she and her husband had no idea about the system’s issues when they bought their home. “

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