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.
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.
Either way, we should probably reduce the prevalence of water-intensive lawns in suburban developments and switch to more water-friendly ground cover (or at least more water-useful ground cover like vegetables).
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.