Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses again for being here.
Let me start as I often do. If there's further information you feel would be valuable to the committee's work, please feel free to follow up with that.
I would note as well that this committee has passed a motion and will be undertaking at some point in the future a study on fresh water in Canada. Certainly the testimony we've received during the course of this study will be part of that, but I would encourage you, if you have further information, to feel free to send it to this committee.
Mayor Bowman, thank you for joining us here today. I think that many members of this committee and many Canadians don't understand the impact that the economic activity in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has on our nation, so I appreciate your being here and sharing some of that.
We've heard how important water is, and I've heard both anecdotally and from a number of communities up north. If Mrs. Goodridge were here, I'm sure she'd be very well placed to ask these questions.
As a municipality, you've figured out a lot of solutions to some of the challenges. We've seen examples of how very difficult it is to get clean drinking water to remote communities. It seems that your municipality has figured out some of those things.
In light of the bigger context of what we're talking about, with industry working nearby and all of those other dynamics, I'd ask you, Mayor Bowman, to speak a little bit to the success that your municipality seems to have found in getting clean drinking water to rural and remote communities that need it.