Thanks for the question. It's pretty loaded.
Our area of expertise is to empower citizens to do water monitoring and to do community-based water monitoring, driven by and for the community, when they have questions and concerns about water, water security and in particular water that supplies water for food security. For example, where I live in the East Kootenays, we have the challenge of climate change deniers not really believing that we are going to be impacted. Lo and behold, though, we have lakes that are drying up. We have severe drought conditions and flooding. Mother Nature is presenting what's going to happen, whether we like it or not.
I feel that one of the ways we can combat misinformation is by simply doing the work that needs to be done, collecting the data with rigorous scientific protocol and solving problems collectively. I don't think there's an opportunity for us to be pointing fingers at each other. We're all in this together. We all have children. We all need food. We all need water. That may sound idealistic, but I think we need to keep our eye on the ball.