BC's Driest Summer On Record Brings Calls For Conservation

Vancouver flushes less as raincoast turns dry
Amy Carmichael
The Canadian Press
Monday, September 08, 2003

VANCOUVER - "Amid frantic warnings that Vancouver-area water supplies could run dry this fall, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said he would shower less and many citizens have stopped flushing their toilets in a smelly stab at conservation.

'There's a definite 'ick' factor, but we're not flushing toilets after every use,' said BIll Morrell, a spokesman for the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

In late August, nearing the end of British Columbia's driest summer on record, civic officials announced that if people kept sucking up as much at at the current rate -- two billion litres per day -- area reservoirs, now at 37 percent of capacity, would be dry by mid-October.

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In Vancouver, summer rainfall (June to September) so far this year has measured 36.7 millimetres, versus a 10-year average of 132.4 mm. Flow conditions in some streams across the province are 10 to 25 per cent of normal for this time of year."

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Edmonton Journal

don't you know, the way to truly handle dwindling resources, is to increase CONSUMPTION?? Haven't you learned anything from our dear Mr Bush?

<sarcasm off>

:-)

. . . may be a sign of personal virtue, it is not a valid water-usage strategy. In fact, conserving water is un-American and threatens to undermine the outstanding quality of our great way of life."

- Dick Cheney, desert philosopher

According to my father he is trying to privatise BC Hydro, the provincial power company which makes hundreds of millions of dollars in profit for the government coffers.

WHYWHYWHY??????????????

It is blatant theft that pull money out of a perfectly fine provincialized company that works and makes a heady profit and give it to buddies... much like Bush is doing in the USA.

This Bushco disease is spreading. This guy was elected as a 'democrat' or what we call the BC Liberal Party and he has been a disaster, stealing trashing, talking about women with kids on welfare draining the system, getting his mugshot while on Holiday in Hawaii for DUI on the front pages of the newspapers etc...

Joke.