{"id":8903,"date":"2025-11-13T01:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/mabou-n-s-under-mandatory-water-conservation-order\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:20:39","slug":"mabou-n-s-under-mandatory-water-conservation-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/mabou-n-s-under-mandatory-water-conservation-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Mabou, N.S., under mandatory water conservation order"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nova ScotiaA western Cape Breton community is under a mandatory conservation order after Inverness County said the water level in Mabou\u2019s well was \u201ccritically low.\u201dInverness County declares community well\u2019s water level \u2018critically low\u2019Tom Ayers \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 12, 2025 5:02 PM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Inverness County chief administrative officer Keith MacDonald says recent rains have helped, but it will take several weeks for the water to reach Mabou\u2019s only well. (Tom Ayers\/CBC)A community in western Cape Breton is under a mandatory conservation order after the water level in its only well was found to be \u201ccritically low.\u201dInverness County issued the order for Mabou last week, saying on its website that dry weather and lack of groundwater to replenish the well are to blame.County chief administrative officer Keith MacDonald says the order is likely only temporary.\u201dLuckily, just recently we\u2019ve had some additional rainfall, but that doesn\u2019t immediately get to our well, so it\u2019ll take a few weeks for that to adjust,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019re already a few weeks into this mandatory request, so we\u2019re hoping that it won\u2019t last too much longer.\u201dIt\u2019s all based on rainfall and how that penetrates into the aquifer and we can\u2019t predict, but with the heavy rains of late, we should be able to move back to voluntary [conservation] hopefully in a few weeks.\u201dThe county is asking Mabou residents to take steps to use less water, such as taking short showers instead of running a bath and turning off the tap while brushing teeth, and asking them to look for possible leaks.Looking to add capacityMacDonald said Inverness County runs seven municipal water systems and Mabou\u2019s is the only one that doesn\u2019t have multiple wells.He said the community of Whycocomagh is under a voluntary conservation order, but the water levels are good in the other five communities.The county is looking to add capacity to Mabou\u2019s water system in the future to prevent supply issues, MacDonald said.\u201dWe\u2019re looking at other opportunities to expand on that so we won\u2019t have as much pressure on that one well.\u201dMORE TOP STORIESABOUT THE AUTHORTom Ayers has been a reporter and editor for 39 years. He has spent the last 21 covering Cape Breton and Nova Scotia stories. You can reach him at tom.ayers@cbc.ca.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mabou, N.S., under mandatory water conservation order Nova ScotiaA western Cape Breton community is under a mandatory conservation order after Inverness County said the water level in Mabou\u2019s well was \u201ccritically low.\u201dInverness County declares community well\u2019s water level \u2018critically low\u2019Tom Ayers \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 12, 2025 5:02 PM EST | Last Updated: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,129,1],"tags":[116,128],"class_list":["post-8903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-nova-scotia","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-nova-scotia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}