Halifax residents asked to voluntary conserve water [Video]

Some welcome rain fell on Lake Major in Nova Scotia on Friday.

Halifax Water is asking residents on the Lake Major system to voluntarily cut back on their water usage because the lake’s level is down by approximately one metre.

Jeff Myrick is a spokesperson for Halifax water.

“It’s something that we’ve been through now in 2016 and 2019 and something that we are working towards fixing in terms of the actual intake in the lake,” Myrick said.

The request to conserve water covers the communities of North Preston, Westphal, Cole Harbour, Dartmouth and Eastern Passage. More than 118,000 customers live in those areas.

CTV meteorologist Kalin Mitchell said the area around Lake Major is about 200 millimetres below the average rainfall and that’s a trend across the region.

“That puts us just about 60 per cent of the normal amount,” Mitchell said. “Agricultural and Agri-Food Canada actually had the Maritime region as a whole in either abnormally dry or …