Above-average snowpack needed to bring water levels in southern Alberta back to normal

While most crops are out of the ground, irrigation districts are reflecting on the possibility of another drought-like summer.“This was the sixth driest year on record in southern Alberta in the past 99 years, according to Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation,” said David Westwood, general manager of the St. Mary’s Irrigation District .

“As we saw the snowpack melt off extremely early - much earlier than normal - and the heat we had and the drought-like conditions we recognized that that forecast was not going to come to fruition and so we had to, unfortunately, reduce allocation two times,” Westwood explained.In August, the city implemented a voluntary water conservation for residents as a way to ease the pressure on the river, while municipalities like the Town of Pincher Creek imposed water restrictions.

“Because of our warming climate, we have had many heat waves,"said Stefan Kienzle, an emeritus of hydrology professor at the University of Lethbridge’s department of geography and environment.

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