Useful Links
The BC Water and Waste Association: the people in charge of cross connection (backflow) tester certification in the province, among other things.
The home page for our local water purveyor, the Capital Regional District. Lots of great info to be found.
Outlines Stage 1-3 Watering Restrictions.
Outlines backflow prevention and testing protocols.
Provides current and forecast evapotranspiration rates.
An extensive document with 36 pages of plants and their observed rates of water use. Better suited to California than here of course, but still a unique and useful resource; "Region 1" would be the most comparable to our own climate (though still much hotter and drier than we experience in BC).
"The Irrigation Innovators."
Meet Jess Stryker, a California landscape architect with a mission to provide the "motherlode" of free Irrigation information on the net.
"Original designs for living better, cheaper, & more ecologically since 1980." Art Ludwig's great ecological design website from California. Includes grey water, water storage, etc.
The communication strategy for the Water Sustainability Action Plan for British Columbia. It is described as providing "the complete story on integrated water management - why, what, where and how." Buckets of water info.