With respect to future demands, as you know, Mr. Leslie, the Assiniboine covers the Qu’Appelle and Souris sub-basins as well as the Assiniboine. Currently, there is the Prairie Provinces Water Board in place, which has federal members and provincial representatives that deal with apportionment and water quality.
When we speak to what's going on in the landscape right now in the Assiniboine, we are in essence moving into a dry cycle or a drought again. Talking to landowners and those who work at the grassroots level, the conversation goes back to small, off-mainstem reservoirs that can assist producers and local communities. Those cost money to build as well as to maintain.
We're not talking about large structures like the Shellmouth Dam that's in place in Manitoba on the Assiniboine, or the Grant Devine or Rafferty dams. We're talking of mainstem opportunities to allow producers and communities to take advantage of those spring runoffs or those rains, to control flooding but also to have water in reserve at times of dry cycles.