‘A race against time’: Alberta community chasing solutions after months of hauling water [Video]

Not far from the town of Pincher Creek, resting in the eastern shadow of the Canadian Rockies, two men wearing coveralls are in the midst of a task that, by now, they’ve done hundreds of times.

The pair have parked their tanker trucks full of water next to each other at an unassuming plant north of Cowley, Alta.

They curl long green and yellow hoses out and up a hillside and raise the covering of a nearby treated water tank.

The trucks roar to life, and soon, a steady flow of water gushes through the hoses and pours into the cavernous space. Peering into the darkness, one can see the reserves slowly begin to pool.