Signs of drought the province is seeing started almost exactly two years ago in 2022, expert says.
This story is part of a series exploring the wide-ranging impacts of persistent drought conditions and climate change seen across the province in recent years.
“The Victoria-Gonzales weather station actually recorded the longest streak of zero precipitation ever of all the stations in Canada,” Boyd said. “That pushed us into a really challenging situation.” Vancouver Island University geography professor Alan Gilchrist said a common point of view is that “drought is the new normal.”Global climate change is clearly a part of that, Gilchrist said, as is population growth creating more need for water.
“There will still be challenges,” Boyd said. “Vancouver Island always has challenges once we get into August and September, until we eventually get those atmospheric-river events.” “The thing is that we have many users on a single river system,” he said. “For example, on a river like the Koksilah on the southern part of the Island in the Cowichan Valley, you have a number of farmers and rural residences that have wells that are drawing water out of the aquifer there, but you also have the fish within the river itself.”“If we get into drought conditions then you start basically getting these competing uses.
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