B.C. residents urged to take shorter showers, conserve water as drought conditions worsen
B.C. residents urged to take shorter showers, conserve water as drought conditions worsen
British Columbians have been asked to take shorter showers and find other ways to conserve water as officials monitor worsening drought conditions in the province.
I'm not Canadian but I'd never guess British Columbia would experience drought. Thought that place was wet af
Coastal BC here - we get light to heavy rain for 6 months of the year now, then it dries up completely. If there isn't enough snow in the mountains, the stream on our property runs dry.
We've been here a decade, and the time the stream runs dry has gone from late August to early June (last year was an exception and it ran until July). We're expecting one of the ponds to go entirely dry this year.
Technically, we live in a rainforest.
Damn that's crazy, and sad.
Some parts of BC are rainforest, some are basically desert. It's really big.
water licensees, can we see how much corporations consumes vs regular household?
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/12-581-x/2017001/sec-1-eng.htm
Are the "blond is beautiful" billboards still a thing in Nanaimo?
Many years ago, I visited Nanaimo and saw billboards showing dormant lawns with that slogan. According to my uncle, this was about water conservation and many neighbourhoods had "activist neighbours" who would sneak in and shut off water going onto lawns.
