{"id":70768,"date":"2025-08-15T04:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70768\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:39:11","slug":"kamloops-gets-550k-for-adaptation-plan-and-study-related-to-declining-thompson-river-water-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70768\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamloops gets $550K for adaptation plan and study related to declining Thompson River water levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis funding supports Kamloops and Tkeml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc as they take proactive steps to protect critical infrastructure and make their community more resilient in the face of increasing climate risks,\u201d Kelly Green, B.C.\u2019s Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness said, in a statement.<\/p>\n

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The City and Tk\u2019emlups te Secwepemc say they have seen decreasing river levels in the Thompson Rivers and Kamloops Lake. They note it can affect the local drinking water supply, flood risk and habitat. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs Secw\u00e9pemc people, we have always understood that water is life and sustains our people, our lands, our wildlife, and all living things,\u201d Tk\u2019emlups K\u00fakpi7 Rosanne Casimir added. \u201cThe Thompson River is part of our identity and well-being, and we are seeing changes that our Elders have spoken of for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis collaboration ensures that traditional knowledge and Western science work together to protect our water for future generations. Planning for the health of our watershed today is an act of stewardship and responsibility to those who will come after us.\u201d <\/p>\n

The city adds that climate-related challenges such as lower streamflows from July through September are occurring more frequently and have made it difficult to reliably access water, putting essential services at risk. <\/p>\n

As of Thursday, B.C.\u2019s provincial drought map lists the North Thompson basin at Drought Level 1 and the Lower and South Thompson basins at Drought Level 0. <\/p>\n

Kamloops is in its second summer under year-round water restrictions<\/a>, though the impacts of those restrictions have yet to be fully tested<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis funding supports Kamloops and Tkeml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc as they take proactive steps to protect critical infrastructure and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-70768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}