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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 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 lo...

That dont let the water soak in and then create more pervious surface, whether its by having driveways that allow water to soak in or different landscaping to try to eliminate the amount of runoff that comes off our land so that the system, even with the development it has, acts more like a natural system and filters that water. Water quality and sewage infrastructure isnt the sexiest of political agendas, but by raising the awareness about Water Quality issues, we can create political pressure ...

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...

I have lived and worked in San Francisco for the last 29 years. Im a business person in downtown and i guess im repeating a little bit of what he just said. This grab and go service, these trucks, this mobile truck industry is very valuable. Its a needed service for Business People like myself. I will at times, when i have time frequent the restaurants and the coffee shops downtown. I have meetings and he use their internet and sit and have coffee there when i have time. When i dont, those truck...

Evening. The girl is in stable condition, but will have to stay the night. Reporter the 8yearold is being kept here at the hospital overnight. The grandmother tells me, she fears for her familys safety. A third grader is playing in the front yard of a relatives home. A car pulls up. Several people start to get out of the vehicle, when a second car drives up, and starts shooting. Bullets shattered the window of a black suv. We also counted four bullet holes on the front windows of the home. One b...

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...

Wageses so we can go home and support our families. So, we are at a track Maintenance Department true Civil Servants of the city of San Francisco. We thank you, Board Members for doing your job. If you werent doing your job, we wouldnt have a job. So, thank you very much. applause id also like to thank the board and mr. Rifkin and mr. Haley for giving me the opportunity to lead young and also the maintenance crew. Again, to reiterate what young said, its the guys, the boots on the ground that re...

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...

So enable to facilitate a more rapid intervention, to preserve that infrastructure that serves the water supply, in fact, mayor ed lee of San Francisco who requested that a state of emergency be initiated so we could cut through the red tape and have the necessary work crews do what they need to do to preserve the water supply. What does that mean actually . What will they have to do to preserve the water supply . Well, its theres one of electrical aqueduct type infrastructure that is being thre...