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British Columbia has committed to reducing greenhouse gases to 33 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020; however, the province is far short of that goal, only achieving a 6.5% reduction as of 2015. [62] Although the Site C dam is expected to have a large initial electricity surplus, the province has proposed to sell this power rather than choosing ...
The water supply system for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now operated by the Capital Regional District (CRD), served in 2010 over 330,000 people with clean drinking water from a catchment area of 11,025 hectares (27,240 acres) centered on its main reservoir at Sooke Lake. [1]
The project does not use a full dam and reservoir, rather a 7 m (23 ft) high weir diverts about 250 m 3 /s (8,800 cu ft/s) of water from the Iskut into a 3.3 km (2.1 mi) power tunnel, leading to an underground power station containing turbines and generators. A tailrace tunnel returns the water to the Iskut River downstream of the powerhouse.
The following is a partial list of rivers of British Columbia, organized by watershed. Some large creeks are included either because of size or historical importance (See Alphabetical List of British Columbia rivers). Also included are lakes that are "in-line" connecting upper tributaries of listed rivers, or at their heads.
The Metro Vancouver watersheds, also known as the Greater Vancouver watersheds, supply potable water to approximately 2.7 million residents in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. [1] They provide tap water to a land area covering more than 2,600 square kilometres (1,000 sq mi), serving a total of 21 member municipalities, one electoral ...
W. A. C. Bennett was the Premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972. [11] Bennett was committed to the large-scale, state-directed development of British Columbia [12] [13] and promoted the continued development of natural resources. [14]
British Columbia lakes larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi) ; Lake Area (including islands) Altitude Max. depth Volume Williston Lake [1]: 1,761 km 2 (680 sq mi) : 671 m (2,201 ft)
In the following table, material data are given with a pressure of 611.7 Pa (equivalent to 0.006117 bar). Up to a temperature of 0.01 °C, the triple point of water, water normally exists as ice, except for supercooled water, for which one data point is tabulated here. At the triple point, ice can exist together with both liquid water and vapor.