The older military spouses, or retired military spoice spouses. And their problem wasnt that i was wrong. It was that i had said something publicly. So i wonder how we combat that. Wonderful, wonderful comment. What do you feel about what do you see in this case . Its ral statement here but its not just the military. I grew up a military dependent. My mother was a military spouse. And the whole rule in our household was never make waves. Dont make waves. Because if you make wavings, if you stand up, youre the nail thats going to get whacked. But that i think is even beyond the military. I think that i was just thinking too, you know, we have a president right now who was he sun of a single mother. First of all, its an interesting moment with this. The role of women in silencing other women, and i think what you said, 90 of the letters were very positive. 10 really goes in of why are other women doing that . And i think thats its not you know, nobodys named the culture. Im just wonderin
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Of water depending on the humidity on the ground . Yes. Commissioner stevenson . You said we are not at the 10 percent goal. Where are we . The 10 percent goal is a curve. Demand goes up. So far weve been tracking fairly close. Its a little bit below when weve had some pretty hot spells. It has gone up during those periods. So we are actually fairly close. We think with a little bit more effort and the campaign we are counting on a lot there and hope to get over the top for in city use. Outside of San Francisco, we are lagging behind and thats where we are working with our wholesale can ustomers to try to make sure we get their use down as well. We are reevaluating how to get that out there to make sure the message is strong and clear and that we all need to conserve. Is it for the can ustomers and citizens and residents that have the biggest impact . The wholesale can ustomers we sell to the water districts. Thats where we hit them and and their obligation to go to their can ustomers.
Is getting work on. In test terms of cost share Replacement Program where you can move to drop tolerant plants which doesnt need much irrigation. We have hit about six parks so far, i believe. Thats great. One last question, have you ever encourage the installation of smart Irrigation Systems which will spray a different amount of water depending on the humidity on the ground . Yes. Commissioner stevenson . You said we are not at the 10 percent goal. Where are we . The 10 percent goal is a curve. Demand goes up. So far weve been tracking fairly close. Its a little bit below when weve had some pretty hot spells. It has gone up during those periods. So we are actually fairly close. We think with a little bit more effort and the campaign we are counting on a lot there and hope to get over the top for in city use. Outside of San Francisco, we are lagging behind and thats where we are working with our wholesale can ustomers to try to make sure we get their use down as well. We are reevaluat
Water system whether or not we have seen a drop off accordingly . Well in the water system our goal was to make sure it is zero and the water systems. Oftentimes we are controlling weeds around our facilities, mosquito, larva and what they have to do with wastewater. I dont know in the affluent tom can speak to that. Colleagues . Just one quick question, steve, obviously as the ag m with water, that is the linkage for water. They talked about golf and pesticides and weve heard this at the Environment Commission, golf makes a spray like this. When it comes to water, if you find with respect to golf, does golf similarly lead to a spike in water usage whether its just plain golf in these tourments . Actually, interesting to see that graph. I would like to go back and koerment to correlate to see if there is a spike. There might be because there is nothing that looks better than the green grass. For me the interest in bringing down the usage of water especially in light of the drought and