LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: Jim Dumont’s clear thinking, innovation and experience underpin the foundation for his risk reduction approach to maintaining “water balance” in a changing climate (October 2023)
“So, why have the practitioners of Rainwater Management in British Columbia fallen behind practitioners in Washington State, Oregon and California in protecting streams? One must understand how we arrived at this situation and then it will be easy to see a path forward,” stated Jim Dumont. “While many advances have been made in managing rainwater on-site, BC communities are failing to utilize practices that directly benefit streams during droughts and floods. Everything is in place. We have led people to it, but we cannot force the uptake. We cannot force the change.”