Aqua Affliction puts players back in time just before the Walkerton Water poisoning accident. They are then left with the moral dilemma to change history by altering the past or by observing history and bringing those lessons back with them.
The players are working for “Righting the Past”, and the goal is to gather evidence against the treatment facility and save Walkerton. They are given a training simulation where they are sent to the Walkerton Water Plant on the day the company sent in their contaminated samples, May 15th, 2000. They will be told to collect evidence against the mismanagement and malpractice. Their moral choice will be to bring the evidence forward against the water facility or to not change the past as they have been warned of the danger of changing history.