Environment committee  Do you know what? This is a very good question. It's funny, because, no, it's exactly the contrary. They come and ask us to be part of it. They actually like to put money into it. I don't know; it's very nice news. We're surprised by it. They're keen to participate in this info

Environment committee  The pumping of groundwater?

Environment committee  On the saline water, I'm not sure of the exact depth, but I do know it's in the order of 70 to 100 metres. But I would be hesitant to make a....

Environment committee  Below, yes.

Environment committee  I'm not sure about that detail.

Environment committee  When we began this series of assessments, we had a list of priority criteria to select aquifers that we were going to map. That is what we are using so far. They are related to economic factors, to people using the aquifers. Paskapoo, for instance, which you see on the map, is us

Environment committee  I do, certainly. As I said, there are so many mechanisms by which contaminated groundwater can be transferred. The easiest example to understand is that if you put any contaminant in water, it moves with the water. That's an advective transport. Groundwater doesn't behave like

Environment committee  By us?

Environment committee  No, we haven't....

Environment committee  By Alberta, yes.

Environment committee  That was the Alberta Geological Survey, not us.

Environment committee  Yes, we could.

Environment committee  You are understanding correctly, but instead of using the words that you used, I would say “indicators”. They have indicators--very simple things to understand--between zero and one. If they are at six, for example, then you are overusing the water. Of course, the indicators cont

Environment committee  Well, as a matter of fact, that's our goal, in the middle- to long-term. Once we complete the groundwater information network that Dr. Boerner mentioned earlier, we want to have that type of indicator available to the public.

Environment committee  Absolutely.