{"id":717835,"date":"2026-06-05T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:34:12","slug":"increased-water-restrictions-coming-for-nanaimo-as-reservoir-levels-drop-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717835\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased water restrictions coming for Nanaimo as reservoir levels drop | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Levels at the Jump Creek Reservoir, the City of Nanaimo’s main water source, continue dropping due to a lack of snowmelt and precipitation, additional water restrictions are being applied. (Image Credit: City of Nanaimo)<\/p>\n

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n

drought conditions<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tJun 5, 2026 | 9:21 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NANAIMO \u2014 Ongoing drought-like conditions across the mid-Island is prompting some preventative measures from local officials.<\/p>\n

Beginning Monday, June 8, the City of Nanaimo will move to stage three water restrictions<\/a>, up from the current stage two, in a bid to preserve water supply ahead of the warmest and driest summer months.<\/p>\n

Under stage three restrictions, outdoor watering is limited to one day per week, with odd-numbered houses permitted on Mondays and even-numbered houses on Thursdays.<\/p>\n

Watering must take place between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. or 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. and be for no more than two hours on a property\u2019s assigned day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Levels at the Jump Creek Reservoir, the City of Nanaimo’s main water source, continue dropping due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,295,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,66,82],"class_list":["post-717835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-environment","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-science","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717835","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=717835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}