Sunshine Coast brothers Gord and Geoff Sloan wrestle a 9,000-litre water tank — the size of a small car — into position behind a rural Sechelt B.C., home until the empty metal cavern tips into place with a resounding boom.
The new owner of this massive metal tank hopes rain will fill it with enough to supply months of water for plants.
The brothers’ year-old business, RainCatchers, is booming as more hot, dry weather arrives after a parched spring in a region dogged by drought for the past few years.
People are frustrated after two years of water restrictions — and no solution to the area’s chronic droughts and
