The irrigation ditches her father dug have given way to automatic drip systems but Lorraine Bennest knows that even the most sophisticated system is useless if there’s no water to run through it. Bennest, who has 15 acres of apple trees in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, was on the front lines of the issue in 2003, when Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans shut down access to Trout Creek—the main source of water for the town—to protect fish habitat. While growers were still able to harvest a decent crop that year, it was a sign that things had to change […]