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The parks, beaches and backyards of Vancouver – a city surrounded by temperate rainforest – are brown. The grass is parched. The air is thick with smoke from some 400 wildfires raging across the province, and my friend doesn’t feel he’s felt proper rain – the kind that soaks to the bone – in weeks.But it’s not all doom and gloom. Help may come from unlikely sources, such as Canada’s humble beaver, now perhaps our key to keeping streams flowing and the taps running.
Merritt isn’t alone. Before the start of the summer, Alberta had 25 water shortage advisories. Simultaneously, almost 20 per cent of B.C. landmass was categorized as drought level 4 or 5, where adverse impacts are likely or almost certain. Restoring watersheds is a longer-term solution and can be accomplished with the help of Canada’s humble beaver, whose dams trap and slow water, allowing it to replenish groundwater. Work is under way to bring the beaver, once hunted to near extinction, home. Only time will tell if they’ll accept the invitation.
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