At the beginning of this month I received in the mail what I understand to be the fourth in a series of notices informing me that if I do not immediately grant access to my property for the installation of a data gathering-and-transmitting device that reports to the City of Regina Water Utility the water usage in my home on an hourly basis, that I face denial of service or financial penalties.

What is being demanded of me is the forfeiture of a non-trivial dimension of my privacy and the privacy of my family. Water usage, when tracked on an hourly basis is a transparent indicator of the presence of people in the home. The resolution of the data when tracked that often can also be reasonably understood to even give an indication as to when the number of people occupying the home goes up and down over the course of a day.

This is not the first time I have communicated with the water utility on this matter. I have publicly posted a record of communications on a website that can be accessed at https://www.wateraccessregina.ca. In invite you to review the information I have posted there.

I have also, as of yesterday evening, written to my new city councillor regarding this matter. A copy of my letter follows: (I have omitted the text of the letter before posting this page to the website)