Letter: 'Murky Water' says it all about group

Murky/mer-ke/adj.: Characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity, such as an overhanging fog or smoke; 2. darkly vague or obscure.

"Murky Water" is the name taken by the citizens group currently opposed to the City of Yuba City's current proposal to convert current Hillcrest groundwater customers over to the cleaner, safer, better-tasting surface water taken from the Feather River.

Based upon the group's present protest efforts, all of which appear to be born out of deception and half-truths, the group's name choice is very appropriate. In the past few months, it has become crystal clear to this south Yuba City resident that Murky Water's position on any issue related to the proposed conversion is to obscure the truth, hide the facts or to marginalize the City's proposal.

The truth about the proposed conversion is that if successful, the city's few thousand remaining groundwater customers will have the same clean, safe, affordable drinking water enjoyed by the majority of the city's residents for less than $20 per month. While Murky Water wishes to obscure this fact from the thousands of people who stand to benefit, they cannot dim the truth that the benefits of this conversion far outweigh the modest costs associated with the conversion.

Query to Murky Water: Do you enjoy your current low water pressure, hardness, toxic arsenic, excessive nitrates and foul taste? What's to protest?

The choice is as clear as the surface water we stand to get: support, don't protest, the conversion.

Tony Galyean

Yuba City