The Jamaican Government should institute a system whereby every working resident pays a flat rate for domestically used water, or pays for this commodity through taxes. This, I think, would be a deterrent to the scenario of our people having to steal water or go without the commodity.

Too many of this nation's inhabitants can't afford to pay the high monetary cost charged by the National Water Commission for this precious thirst quencher, yet its slogan continues to say "water is life". Is the government, through the National Water Commission, saying some folks must not have life?

What a thing! Apparently when people are too proud to beg and too honest to steal, they become the ordinary life that lived decent and is buried in an unvisited grave.

I am, etc.,

ALLAN MARTIN

Kingston