As the sun beat down on their house in central Nova Scotia last weekend, Brian Wilson's teenage daughter turned on the tap, but no water came out.

"That led me to start investigating what the cause was and we determined upon opening the hatch to the well that we were empty," Wilson said of their home in Stewiacke, N.S., roughly 70 kilometres northwest of Halifax.

"Then I thought, we'll just flip over to the cistern. It's always been able to supply us during dry times. But we determined that it was also empty."

The Wilsons are not alone.

Across the province, wells and reservoirs are drying up and municipalities are implementing conservation measures amid a drought with no end in sight.

Wilson said he called several water delivery companies that operate in his rural area, but didn't hav

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