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Michael T Wilson

BRITISH COLUMBIA SNOWPACK LEVELS ARE IN THE RED ZONE: “Floods directly impact a few, droughts impact everyone. When there is no water, there is no water until it rains again. For the past decade, the situation has been touch and go almost every year,” stated Kim Stephens of the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia

March 25, 2025


“Climate change has aggravated an existing vulnerability related to seasonal supply of water in British Columbia. Over time, and as the population has grown, the safety factor has been shrinking. While it rains a lot, we do not have an abundance of supply when demand is greatest. In 2015, Western North America clearly crossed an invisible threshold into a different hydrometeorological regime. Low snowpack and lingering impacts from on-going drought in recent years are pointing towards elevated drought hazards for this upcoming spring and summer,” stated Kim Stephens.

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LIVING WATER SMART IN BC: “Changes in the Earth’s atmosphere have resulted in the acceleration of the global hydrologic cycle with huge implications. We can expect deeper, more persistent drought punctuated by flooding,” stated Bob Sandford, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health

March 25, 2025


“The drought of 2015 suggests we may be crossing an invisible threshold into a different hydro-meteorological regime in Western North America,” stated Bob Sandford in 2015. Events have proven him to be right. Over the past decade, it has been one drought after another, dramatized by the extremes that impacted BC communities in 2021 and again in 2023. The mountainous nature of BC’s geography means that BC communities are typically storage-constrained, and what storage they do have is measured in months. This accentuates risks, uncertainties and vulnerabilities.

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