Calgary’s irrigation industry says it’s wilting under the city’s one-month-long outdoor water use ban and is pleading with the city to end it.
Since the prohibition took effect, the sector, which comprises about 300 companies, has been throttled and has no idea when the ban will end, said Kyle Brost, president of the Canadian Prairie chapter of the Irrigation Association.
“The irrigation industry is hurting really hard and not getting any information on when the hurting will be relieved,” said Brost. “It’s frankly killing us, there’s no timeline.”
Within hours of the ban being announced in early June, thousands of irrigation systems were shut off and employees idled, he said.