Thank you, Ms. Collins.
Yes, there have been multi-year droughts. It's problematic for water users in British Columbia. Last year, there were three or four watersheds where farmers had to stop irrigating at a time when they'd already planted and fertilized.
I think one issue is allocating more water than what we have for supply, maybe over-allocating water. The other is lack of storage, so that during freshet, when there's lots of water, users are not able to collect it and store it for later use.
I also think that maybe people are taking water without any authorization, at least in British Columbia. Many people do not know that water is a common-pool resource. Rather, they think that if they live on the land, they own all the water underneath it. That is just not the way water is managed in British Columbia or indeed across Canada.