the creeks and streams as it
slides down the forested
hillsides. While other
communities rely heavily on
intake from the lake,
Peachland’s hillside orchards
are totally dependent upon
man-made irrigation systems
drawing from the hillside
watershed. Climate change is
| bringing warmer and longer
summers and the snowpack is
melting earlier, leading to
longer dry-stream periods.
As in the rest of the
Okanagan Valley, residential
development in Peachland is
placing great demands upon
land use and water resources,
challenging the capacity of
| the century old water system
to provide secure water.
Visitors to this exhibit
will appreciate that a
century of living by water
has endowed Peachland with a
rich heritage of stories,
lessons that can deepen our
appreciation of the life-
| sustaining role of water in
the story of human
development.
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