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Okanagan Basin Water Board
You can help choose the name of the new Okanagan milfoil harvester
A new machine for combating an invasive aquatic plant is coming to the Okanagan and…
Okanagan mayors and fire chiefs gathered in Lake Country to plan for a dry summer
The weather has been cooler and the valley has seen some rainfall, but the Okanagan…
PULL THE PLUG: Transporting boats in BC with drain plugs in now illegal
In an effort to prevent the spread of invasive species, the provincial government is making…
Okanagan moved to drought level two, ‘very dry’
As municipalities around the Okanagan have implemented water restrictions, the region’s drought level has increased…
Some areas of Okanagan experiencing historically low snowpack
Concerns have been growing across BC as the snowpack measurements are lower than normal posing…
Newly announced federal funding won’t prevent the spread of invasive mussels in BC
The government’s new funding announcement does not go far enough to protect BC from invasive…
Out-of-province boat ban gaining support in the Thompson-Okanagan
Calls for a moratorium on out-of-province boats in BC to protect local waterways from invasive…
BC Interior opposition MPs call on feds to increase funding to stop invasive mussels
Five BC Interior Conservative MPs have written a letter to the federal government demanding proper…
Okanagan water board calling for temporary moratorium on out-of-province boats
The Okanagan Basin Water Board is calling for a moratorium on all boats entering the…
With snowpack in Okanagan gone, drought level on the rise
The first Okanagan Drought Bulletin of the season has already raised the level of drought…
Invasive mussels in B.C. won’t just be expensive, Okanagan Basin Water Board warns
If invasive mussels make their way into B.C. it will result in a financial burden…
iN VIDEO: Warning issued about microplastics found in Okanagan Lake
An innovative team effort has detected a small but worrying amount of microplastics in Okanagan…
New report suggests Okanagan lakes could flood every 20 years if we do nothing
New mapping being done for the Okanagan Basin Water Board shows that the one-in-500-year flood…
Okanagan Lake is slowly getting saltier
While it’s got a really long ways to go before being as salty as an…
COVID-19 hasn’t kept invasive mussel-infested boats out of Okanagan
Even though the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered travel restrictions over the past two summers, boaters…
Okanagan drought killing fish and exposing need for major water management change
Being in a Stage 4 drought is not going to have much impact on humans…
These Quebec students are trying to keep invasive zebra mussels out of B.C. Interior lakes
While conservation officers use sniffer dogs to try to stop invasive zebra mussels from contaminating…
Is your Okanagan home at risk of flooding? There’s now a website to help you figure it out
Whether you live on Okanagan Lake waterfront or a few of blocks away from Osoyoos…
Feds need to step up game in fight against invasive mussels in Okanagan, Shuswap: letter
Two water protection agencies in the Okanagan and Shuswap have joined forces to urge the…
Mussel inspections find 19 boats carrying invasive species
Nineteen out-of-province vehicles were heading for B.C. lakes last summer with zebra or quagga mussels…
New rototilling rules will be a boost to swimmers at Okanagan Beaches next summer
The provincial government has eased off on its rules for rototilling milfoil in Okanagan lakes,…
Fight with province over native mussels vs. invasive milfoil has divers heading into Okanagan lakes
KELOWNA – More research is planned to determine what is more importance – weed-free beaches…
Feds decision over ridge mussel’s status spurs Okanagan water board into action
The Okanagan Basin Water Board has renewed its appeal to the province asking for it…
Province should make exemption to milfoil rototilling ban to fight invasive species: report
A new Parliamentary committee report suggests that an exemption should be put in place to…