Metro Vancouver likely won’t be seeing tough Stage 4 water restrictions, thanks to residents’ conservation efforts.
Since current restrictions came into effect on July 20, the region has managed to keep water consumption below 1.2 billion litres a day. That is a drop of 0.5 billion litres a day from the peak usage in early July.
Current Stage 3 water restrictions will remain in place until further notice.
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“Because we’ve been making adjustments and we’ve been reducing our water consumption, not watering our lawns or washing our cars and such, and using less water at home, it looks like hopefully we’ll be able to avoid the Stage 4 restrictions,” said Darrell Mussatto, Metro Vancouver Utilities Committee chair.
“But indeed, we have to stay strong and continue to respect Stage 3, and that will happen probably right through until the end of September.”
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