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| Press Release Feb. 28 |
A UBC professor is urging planners in the Okanagan to regulate water consumption, to match capacity.
Dr.
Hans Schreier told a crowd at Vernon's Schubert Centre, water use could
be reduced by 30 percent by using modern irrigation and landscape
techniques, improving livestock management, and by adding more low flow
toilets. "Thirty-thousand new homes were constructed in BC last year but only 15 percent included low flush toilets." He says the Okanagan is the driest watershed in Canada, and
politicians at all levels have to do more to control water waste and
prepare for climate change. "The time has come to consider processing farm sewage as seriously as city sewage." Schreier questions using up to 70 percent of the water supply to irrigate low value forage for livestock. He says it makes more sense to use the scarce supplies for value-added crops such as grapes. The professor is a water research and planning expert who was part of the Green Party's speaker series.
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