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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...

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 what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a d...

Part of the project or certainly addressing what the project impacts are. Again, im one of the stakeholders. My system mta needs to work well. Getting ahead of the data, timing, community concerns, i will be much more confident going into an eir and all of the analysis we get, understanding that ive got these ideas and this Community Perceptions with me. So, with that id be happy to take questions or move to the next presenter. Wanted to ask mr. Albert, how many people participated in that octob...

Perception if there was a major event on one part of town draining other parts of town from resources. We developed the people plan to float the high level of transit above the baseline so you could see the Ongoing Service in every neighborhood isnt really affected by the great demand in the northeast waterfront. That would be the basis for this assessment. We dont want to cannibalize transit to feed another. That comes with a cost. We can provide the cost. I had a chance to meet with the ceo of...

Narrator to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. Mulroy this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what youre used to. As long as people recognize theyre moving to the desert 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...

That is one of the main reasons why we have to close the beaches after heavy rain. Narrator but even when its not raining, water still enters the stormwater system, carrying pollutants. Here on the west coast, a lot of our storm drain systems are separate from the sanitary sewer system, so if you dump something in the storm drain, it goes right to the ocean untreated. Alamillo we havent had a major rainstorm in the last year or so yet theres a lot of water in this creek here. I would say 20 of i...

Water taxi is a new animal. The port just finished the fee process. I was on the water taxi with the bidders because i wanted to see what value they could add specifically for americas cup. My brain doesnt stop therethv i wanted to look atwater taxi as a resource. [speaker not understood]. I want to talk to them more extensively about next year. This gives us plenty time what water taxis mean by the time it is open in 2017, 2018. Thank you. I just want to say i think this is a truly critical par...

That twoyear budget. And we will go through the budget and visit key assumptions, and come back and share 10 year of projected impacts and 10 years of Capital Needs. Still some big things to talk about. But it wont be the usual line item by line item analysis you have done in the past. What it does is afford us the opportunity to take a higherlevel look at what the adopted budget is. Its just a little short of 1 billion, 899 million. And that includes the enterprise and waste water, hetch hetchy...

Are in that kind of unburdened review. First is to take a fairly highlevel look at what the i think of it as the Business Plan for the three enterprises, and expressed in the Capital Program. And for each there are changes that we need to take note of. I am thinking especially in the water enterprise, it looks as though that boska is going to be able to issue that, which will change some of the rate profile we are looking at in an important way. Clean water system, we are looking at a program th...

There wasnt a level of commitment. Heres what i can tell you. At americas cup we learned what we can do. We have a team, a system that is going to be incidental or instrumental to managing loads that are above and beyond extraordinary. I think that is one of the big concerns if we have an arena and ballpark and new development at pier 70, clearly there are going to be demands on the system that are bigger. If i can interject and im sorry to interrupt. I think mta did an outstanding job around th...