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BC has no lack of water; it rains _heavily_ most of the year along the coast. What BC lacks is a water storage plan; as you've mentioned, our glaciers and snow
by dleslie 5y ago
BC has no lack of water; it rains _heavily_ most of the year along the coast.
What BC lacks is a water storage plan; as you've mentioned, our glaciers and snow pack are no longer reliable.
And there's the impact from less water in rivers and streams to consider, and how that will effect the ecology.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoThere's really three different ecozones we're talking about here. Coastal, interior, and northern. Yes, there's lots of rain along the coast, but that doesn't help the interior. And it's pretty damned hard to build the infrastructure for rain storage on the scale we're talking about. That said, the recent heat wave hit the coast pretty badly, too.
- dleslie 5y agoThe southern interior hosts a desert; definitely not a lot of rain there. ;) We're building rain storage right now, in the form of Site C.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoWouldn't you say Site C more of a glacial-melt supplied reservoir? EDIT: It's a dam built on the Peace, which is out of the Rockies, on the other side from most of BC. And a long way from anywhere in B.C. that will be requiring drinking water or irrigation really. The farm land that would be irrigated I would imagine would be primarily on the Alberta side.
- dleslie 5y agoIt's a snow-pack reservoir, I think. The intended use of the water is for power generation, but I think dams are clear model of how to build rain water reservoirs going forward.