Vancouver Sun
The system that brings clean water into Metro Vancouver homes was started 100 years ago, with rickety pipes on the Burrard Inlet seabed that delivered about 140 million litres a day to the 260,000 people living in Vancouver and Burnaby.
A century later, the Capilano and Seymour rivers have been dammed and a lake has been added to the network to provide Metro’s 2.8 million people with an average of one billion litres of water a day — enough to fill B.C. Place Stadium. …
Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro Vancouver’s water committee, agreed it is crucial to ensure “we’re using treated drinking water responsibly” as the region grows and climate change worsens.
“The actions we take now will make a huge difference for the future.” …