Quadra Island's impending water crisis
Cortes Currents
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Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Quadra Island’s groundwater appears to be disappearing.
“We need to figure out where it’s going, how much we have that we don’t know about and then how we can make sure that not just on the people on Quadra, but also the environment and businesses get they need,” said Jude McCormick, the leader of Quadra ICAN’s water security team. “It is a Herculean task and the first part is to make people aware that we have a problem.”
In the first of a series about Quadra Island’s water issues, McCormick, Bernie Amell, Kris Wellstein and Mike Gall explain how they know the water is disappearing.
Photo credit: Jude McCormick, Kris Wellstein and Bernie Amell with IBC water totes - courtesy Quadra ICAN