{"id":882545,"date":"2026-09-04T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882545\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:04:11","slug":"city-of-kamloops-downgrades-to-drought-level-3-eases-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882545\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kamloops downgrades to Drought Level 3, eases water restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c2709f25-dba3-4d33-9458-14b413a3c529-3.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)<\/p>\n<p>By Elora McCormack<\/p>\n<p>Kamloops Drought Level<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 3, 2026 | 3:09 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS \u2014 Normal water use can resume in the City of Kamloops as it has downgraded its drought response to Level 3.<\/p>\n<p>That means people can now water their lawns up to three times per week, instead of once a week \u2013 as was the case when <a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/07\/17\/kamloops-declares-drought-level-4-water-restrictions-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Level 4 restrictions were implemented back on July 20<\/a>. It also means trees, plants, shrubs and flowers can be watered using sprinklers up to three days a week, and there are no restrictions around washing of hard surfaces like sidewalks, driveways and patios.<\/p>\n<p>A full breakdown of water restrictions in the City of Kamloops can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kamloops.ca\/our-community\/environment-sustainability\/water-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">h<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kamloops.ca\/Drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ere<\/a>, and officials are still urging people to conserve water wherever possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today) By Elora McCormack Kamloops Drought Level Sep 3, 2026 | 3:09 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-882545","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\/882545","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=882545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}