Maybe I'll add one point, Auditor General: the whole issue of the funding formula not being amended to take into consideration the state of drinking water systems.
If you have an older system, it's obviously going to take more O and M money to keep it up and running. Although the department went from funding 80% of the cost of water treatment plants to 100%, which was a good thing, the funding formula was not updated to take into consideration the age of the treatment plants. That's another issue that is of some importance.
The Auditor General mentioned the issue, for example, of water treatment operators: You need a primary and a secondary. There is turnover, there are retirements and people leave the community, so you might have two water treatment operators at one point, but six months later you're down to one, and then you're going to have accompanying issues. There's a lot that goes into the issue.
