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in terms of political areas. very liberal areas like santa monica to quite conservative to parts of orange county and several areas throughout our entire service area. it was never partisan but what we need to do as an issue. i find it interesting this is interesting but in utilities issues, it's more how are you prepared. we tend to get our water - we're lucky because we have a diversified water supply. four major sources in southern california and because their from distinct thigh droe logical areas we tend to not have them dry at the same time it's one of our primary areas or defe...

will repeat that entire lunchtime presentation except he'll talk really fast and do it in ten minutes. our third speaker barry nelson, codirector of national resources defense council and working on an interesting project water law and policy, and that's settlement and potential rest to raks of the san jaoquin river. thank you very much. brad? [applause] >> good afternoon, dan i'm from nebraska actually. actually, i'm not but colorado is close enough and will have to do in my point. those of us from other parts of the country are looking very carefully to what your doing here and we'...

water - we're lucky because we have a diversified water supply. four major sources in southern california and because their from distinct thigh droe logical areas we tend to not have them dry at the same time it's one of our primary areas or defenses, we get colorado okay okay, north california, and local in our south california region that supplies almost half the water we use and then through one of our member agencies city of los angeles the east si' ras and this year is it's becoming depress ingly clear and 07' is shaping up that all of them are well below normal. every single ar...

as metropolitan and people in san francisco we like to say they see us, as the good guys. just a few minutes before i introduce the panels a couple of things i thought i would touch on briefly from this mornings presentation, and that's utility reaction verses global warming and we're fairly pragmatic, we look upon them as challenges and things we have to man for and not apart san issue. we looked at climate changes in 1990 at met when we looked through the previous drought and we had board workshops on the implications for the future. we repeatd the exercise a decade later and had p...

just looking at one spot or grid or one pixel over north california and the models are run not only forward in time but also retrospectively. run back. they can replicate what we've seen and that's one of the tests of climate models and what we see is, without a doubt, every climate model is warming. this is the 0 line today is todays so we took the actual temperature out of it. we'll call that 0 the departure from todays level. and this is 2100, so we can see here are those numbers that you heard earlier in the day rises the temperatures from 2 degrees celsius to more than 7 for cal...