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Leaving a legacy behind. Ive been born in San Francisco and been living no bayview and have an background in the environment and running the software age and i am a pollution advocacy and ill hope e happy to bring my work to the Citizens Advisory Council and im looking forward to building a relationship with the staff and commission and board of supervisors in making sure that the community the most vulnerable communities in San Francisco and their concerns are take a look at. Thank you for havi...

About how theyre going to accommodate additional growth in their communities. Melosi if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. Conservation of water is a way of generating more water. Allbee we think that a household can actually reduce its water usage by about 30 . And thats hugely important in terms of the amount of infrastructure that communitys going to require. Narrator las vegas is one of the fastgrowing areas in the country. Its a relatively new city under constant cons...

And give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of ...

Moriarty our goal with Surfrider Foundation is essentially to have the city understand that the water is, in fact, dirty, and then work with the infrastructure and the various issues to change that. Narrator but building more systems and more plants cant work alone as a sustainable solution. And, as in pittsburgh, as in new york, part of the answer lies in protecting the watershed. Nelsen we need to reduce the amount of impervious surfaces in our watershed, which are surfaces that dont let the w...

If you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them commissioner caen. I have a question on slide is that selfinflect junior 2014 2015 the general served how does that get so high ill ask todd to speak to that. Thank you for asking that question. In the case of the water enterprise their prices those go up in the mortgage payment on line. Youll see that in particular we have the 4 bhoildz but thats the migration to paying for the project youll see that in the Sewer Program as well thank you. ...

Puc that are related to training and development. Thats compared to one of the leaders in the utility colorado spripgz utility they have one person for every 74 employees. This would be an auction e augmentation tour our 73 million thats training and development related. So thank you to linda shows our h. R. S director she makes all the hiring and a training and development happen so thank you to linda and the 60 folks on her team. So those are the proposals and quickly the general manager opera...

If theres the political will and if the public gets behind it. Narrator even the casinos and resorts have adapted to efficient water use. Mulroy the Las Vegas Strip uses only 3 of all the water that we deliver. And when you think about it, its the largest economic driver in the state, the largest employer, bar none. They knew they had to go the extra mile. And theyve embraced conservation. And its almost beyond belief that theyre right now in the process of building another 15,000 rooms. Souther...

So if you were to measure the water that goes into your system and compare it to the water that goes out, how much is unaccounted for . Most states have a goal of 10 . Ours is at only 5. 5 right now. And we have plans to lower that to 4 . Man we actually have our entire Distribution System mapped out in a computerized or electronic format. And we can locate our pipes, we can locate our valves, we can locate water meters that are out there. Weve got small units installed in the Distribution Syste...

Desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less water today...

Ends up in catch basins, storm drains, into our storm drain system, and for some of the city, parts of the city, it ends up here at smurrf. 350,000 gallons come here on a daily basis, producing recycled water, and that can be reused for landscape irrigation and indoor toilet flushing. The pumps can only handle so much water, which is generally when its not rain, the dryweather runoff, so if you get a storm of a decent size, the pumps will shut down automatically and the water will just continue ...