Around green infrastructure, our interests are on the watershed level, the watershed basis, where we look at the watershed and have more natural areas, so that when we have these sudden, intense storms, there's more natural infiltration.
The important piece with the highly urbanizing areas is that as the surfaces become more concrete, more impervious, we're having trouble with infiltration of the water when we have these sudden, intense storms. Within the urban context, the green infrastructure, we are looking at urban stormwater low-impact development techniques and different ways of using more green technologies in terms of absorbing that additional water. I think you had someone from the City of Toronto who came and spoke to the committee, and had some examples of that.
A number of our member conservation authorities are experts in this area: the Credit Valley Conservation, Toronto Region Conservation Authority, and Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. They've established a sustainable technologies evaluation program,. They are testing actual low-impact development techniques and green infrastructure techniques in an urban environment for urban environments. That's on the websites. They developed that program through the Great Lakes sustainability fund, so the support of the federal and provincial governments for these activities has been really important to move the technologies forward.