Environment committee  We haven't focused, or not that I'm aware of, on saltwater desalination. We have a very plentiful aquifer, and our priority is to protect that aquifer. We have quite a bit of water. It's not limitless, but at this point we have a good quantity that serves the needs of the islanders.

Environment committee  I don't think there's anything major. You talk about a large, large scale. That wouldn't be our scale at all. As I've harped on several times already, we'd like to upgrade our aging infrastructure. That's where we see the most benefit right now.

Environment committee  I'll go back to providing research, providing expertise and really giving us knowledge where we don't have the expertise, providing some of that and providing policies that would benefit and be useful for P.E.I. and that would be adaptable to P.E.I.. Those are the two main priorities for us.

Environment committee  As I said, our climate change department is very aggressive with adaptation, and by having our department collaborate with experts in the field, the water agency may be able to provide and use that expertise to complement our program, complement our adaptation, going forward.

Environment committee  We're much like Newfoundland and kind of in the same boat. Every decision we make and everything we build now has a climate change lens. We have climate change, sort of, mini-experts in all our departments across the government. We're incorporating that now, just like Haseen said.

Environment committee  I would agree with Haseen. It's the scientific knowledge that could be of very great benefit to smaller jurisdictions. That would be one thing. It would be good for collaboration on policies at a national level, which is bigger than at the provincial level. I think those are the two main parts that I see.

Environment committee  It could be—it's going to be different in different regions of the country—just so as long as it's specific to the province they're talking about at the time. Agriculture in the Prairies is not the same as agriculture in P.E.I., so it has to be based on the specific—

Environment committee  We take any recommendations seriously. We would look at them and see if they fit our unique situation. I don't know if there is a broad answer for that, but we would look at any recommendations and see if we can incorporate them or not. Does that answer your question?

Environment committee  Definitely not. Agriculture industry is critical to our province, like I said before. All I'm saying is that I want to make sure that the products they are using are unique and properly registered for our province. That's all. I'm not saying we should reduce or cut anything back.

Environment committee  Yes, it is a challenge. We've been trying to work with some of that. You talked about inland flooding, and we just created a map for all of P.E.I. for inland flooding, so some of that work hopefully can help municipalities in their work. However, yes, it is a challenge and additional funding could help municipalities in that sort of thing.

Environment committee  Thank you. The landscape in P.E.I. is.... There are not very large indigenous communities, so they're very small and its a federal jurisdiction, as you know. However, because we're small, we also collaborate with those communities whenever they want. If they need expertise from our department, we just talk and collaborate as need be.

Environment committee  I would say the whole province has good drinking water and good access to it. Are there boil-water advisories? There are some but not that many. We don't rely on surface water, so it's all groundwater fed. Most of the time.... There would have to be a problem with the system in order to have a boil-water advisory.

Environment committee  Okay. I will go first. I think in our position, as I already mentioned, with the infrastructure we have for waste-water and for drinking water systems, more funding to upgrade those and to make them newer would be the main thing. I forget the first part of your question. I'm sorry.

Environment committee  Yes. We certainly know hurricanes after Fiona. That was a big wake-up call for the province. I think it still comes back to infrastructure for us. We have a climate change section that is really aggressive on the adaptation side, and we have been working very hard to make sure that we adapt to climate change.

Environment committee  Could you expand on that a touch? I'm not exactly sure what you mean.