As summer droughts become increasingly common and more severe in B.C., farmers on the Sunshine Coast are asking to be exempt from emergency water usage restrictions.
The district is currently under stage 2 restrictions — where lawn watering is not permitted, and other types of water usage is permitted with restrictions — but provincial forecasters warn the province could face a long, unusually severe drought this year.
“We’re definitely concerned, we know it’s probably coming,” said Mel Sylvestre, a produce farmer in Gibsons and the president of the Sunshine Coast Farmers’ Institute.
No outdoor watering is allowed in the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) during its most extreme stage 4 water restrictions, and farmers say they need
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