English, please

On the cover of the 2007 Annual Water Quality Report, the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District has four boxes, with language I can not read, labeled Chinese, Korean, Spanish and German. Does this mean the report is exported to other countries? (China, Korea, Spain/Mexico and Germany?)

What is the cost of interpreters, translators and publishing for these foreign languages? With our water rates continuing to rise, as our economy begins to tank due the constant increases in gasoline, this may be an area where the water board could save and pass the savings on to ratepayers in delayed increases, maybe rollbacks.

The majority of U.S. citizens do not speak, read or write in those languages, so who benefits? In private industry I see nothing wrong with promoting other languages that help reach customers to buy products. However, government and other taxpayer/ratepayer supported agencies should promote the language of our country. This alone may help the minority of people who have not become proficient in the use of English to become more effective members of the American society. Lloyd Carter Westlake Village