Documents CBC News received through federal access to information say corrosion that led to MV Holiday Island not sailing in 2016 should have been found earlier.

The P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture is asking the province to create an Island-wide irrigation strategy after farmers risked losing crops or having crop damage due to several dry summers.

A P.E.I. water protection group is raising concerns that the Water Act might not improve things if the province goes against its own rules, as it did approving farmers' use of surface water for irrigation from the Dunk River during a drought last August.