This is an opportunity and also a challenge. Partly it's a challenge because we've gone so far down one particular pathway, and that pathway is to commit as much water as possible for as much land as possible.
Relative to changing that, instead of thinking about.... There are some mechanisms. For example, one in particular that we might think about changing is a policy known as “first in time is first in right”. What it means is that the water user who commenced the irrigation back in 1900 gets the highest priority during a drought interval. In fact, it's likely that the user may have been in the Foothills area and not in that area in the Prairies, in the Taber area or something. What it means, then, is that instead of growing potatoes, we're going to end up in a drought cycle growing hay. This is the type of unfortunate historic legacy that we have to rethink.