Dry summer conditions, low snowpack have put town's prime water source at risk
The town of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island will start using pumps to keep the local river flowing, due to one of the most severe droughts its watershed has experienced.
Water from Cowichan Lake will start being pumped into the Cowichan River on Thursday.
Catalyst Crofton, the company that will manage the process, says 11 droughts have plagued the Cowichan basin since 1998.
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Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here.
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