{"id":4376,"date":"2021-03-01T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:28:59","slug":"new-blog-post-32-proposal-to-update-b-c-s-drought-levels-what-do-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2021\/03\/01\/new-blog-post-32-proposal-to-update-b-c-s-drought-levels-what-do-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #32 \u2013 Proposal to Update B.C.\u2019s Drought Levels \u2013 What do you think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Province is seeking your feedback on a proposal to update <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2021\/03\/Proposal-Drought-Levels-in-BC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Columbia\u2019s (B.C.) drought level scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drought severity in B.C. is currently communicated to British Columbians through four \u201cdrought levels\u201d on a scale of 1 (normal conditions) to 4 (extremely dry conditions). In light of feedback received over the years, the Province is proposing to update and expand the existing drought levels to a six-level scale that better aligns with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nadm-noaa.hub.arcgis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American Drought Monitor<\/a> best practices. The proposed changes are intended to more accurately describe water scarcity conditions in B.C. and allow for improved protection of water resources and local aquatic ecology.<\/p>\n<p>The Province intends to run a trial of the proposed drought levels over summer 2021, pending the review of feedback received during this engagement period and any revisions to the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>For an explanation of the updates to the drought level scale, please watch this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qQrXeWyYbNg\">short video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We invited you to share your thoughts on the proposed updates to the drought levels by leaving a comment below or by sending an email to <a href=\"mailto:livingwatersmart@gov.bc.ca\">livingwatersmart@gov.bc.ca<\/a>. Comments were accepted March 1 until March 31, 2021 at 5:00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province is seeking your feedback on a proposal to update British Columbia\u2019s (B.C.) drought level scale. Drought severity in B.C. is currently communicated to British Columbians through four \u201cdrought levels\u201d on a scale of 1 (normal conditions) to 4 (extremely dry conditions). In light of feedback received over the years, the Province is proposing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/2021\/03\/01\/new-blog-post-32-proposal-to-update-b-c-s-drought-levels-what-do-you-think\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/watersustainabilityact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}