RBC announces Blue Water Project advisory panel
North American water experts and community leaders to help set strategy and develop assessment guidelines
Month: January 2008
Climate change could be bad for business
He’s no Al Gore, and his slide show on global warming didn’t have nearly the same dramatic effect as ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. But Environment Canada … Read more
New report delves into groundwater resources
If valley residents use the existing water resources faster than they can be replenished, there will be water shortages here in the valley—and we don’t … Read more
Lack of Snowfall Bad Sign for Replenishing Water Supply
We’ve had an early warning. Skis are scraping rocks in the mountains around the Okanagan Valley where they normally wouldn’t at this time of year. … Read more
Summerland gets water cash
Summerland is swimming in federal and provincial cash to help upgrade the community’s water supply. Okanagan Westside MLA Rick Thorpe and Okanagan Coquihalla MP Stockwell … Read more
Snow key to water cycle
I am writing this article about Okanagan water from the passenger seat, as our truck crawls through a Coquihalla snowstorm. Under these conditions – fighting … Read more