As a landscape architect specializing in wetland restoration, Bernie Amell knows how water moves across the landscape. However, he has had a crash course in drought after Amell and his wife moved to their Quadra Island agricultural acreage on B.C.'s so-called “Wet Coast” three years ago.
“We arrived in 2021, in the ‘heat dome’ summer, and the shallow well dried up,” said Amell, a member of Quadra Island’s Climate Action Network (I-CAN). “We had to buy water in jugs while we were building the house. We could barely water any plants in the garden.”
Most of Quadra’s 2,700 residents depend on groundwater, from shallow or drilled deep wells, to meet their water needs ...,
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