I think I presented on it.
I thought about the statement I made, that after climate change, aquatic invasive species are the biggest threat to our regional economy. I asked myself if that was a true statement. I really believe it is.
People really come to the Okanagan for the lakes. Our entire economy is built around the lakes. It's all about the lakes—our drinking water systems, everything.
We will lose our whole community and our culture if (a), we cannot control Eurasian water milfoil and (b), we get invasive mussels in there. The reason we're so vulnerable to invasive mussels is that we have so much calcium in the water it will make them grow faster and breed faster. All of our infrastructure is in the lake.