[news] Global Warming's Threat to BC: Seeking Solutions

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Floods and droughts on the radar. Can we adapt?

The heat, [...] is on. It is becoming harder to ignore the change in the weather.

Soon it will be impossible as, in one way or another, events compel even the most somnolent among us to respond. [...T]hat wake-up call may be a spring flood that overtops dikes defending Vancouver's suburbs. Or perhaps it will be a killing drought that pits neighbour against thirsty neighbour in the Okanagan. Or it may come invisibly, as unregulated wells pump countless litres of water out of the ground until they suck it dry.

  


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