Dollars (in thousands)

	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05
Providing public drinking water	no data	no data	872	400	274	139
Maintaining recreational and heritage sites	no data	no data	4,240	1,980	2,014	1,947
Maintaining roads; trail building and/or maintaining Trails	no data	no data	367	156	183	76
Strategic Research & Development	4,100	3,800	3,700	3,400	3,287	1,634
Total			9,179	5,936	5,758	3,796

Some historic data was unavailable. Spending shown is operation, maintenance, and overhead funds, and does not include depreciation on capital expenses or external funding leveraged as a result of initial investment by BC Hydro. BC Hydro provides domestic drinking water to generating stations, substations, town sites, recreation sites, visitor centres and to four communities in the Arrow Lakes water system. Overall, these costs declined as systems were divested to local communities and the remaining systems were operated on a fee-for-service basis. In the October 29, "2004 BCUC Decision on BC Hydro's Revenue Requirements," the BCUC found that BC Hydro had not demonstrated the customer value of Research and Development (R&D) and limited the Sustainability/R&D budget to $3.04 million per year for 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 from the $8.6 million originally planned. The variance from plan resulted from commitments made earlier in the fiscal year prior to the decision.