Three times so an average year would be really nice to have. If its similar to 2007 and low precipitation and at least some snowfall and dryer than normal but the results will keep us at 10 reduction and something that we can sustain in the future. If its the lowest bar with precipitation and see those conditions in april and may we will talk to our customers because we will plan for a 20 reduction in the coming months, whenever that might be, and one thing we need to talk to them is we all conserved a lot. The demand is down 20 and now were asking for 10 more, start to ask people to do a lot of things so we dont want to take that step unless we thoroughly understand the consequences of that but in the meantime if were in a different situation i think the rest of the state is going to look grim as well so there will be discussion about what needs to be done state wide and i think we have to think about alternative water supply options. Not that were going to build something tomorrow bu
Are the ones that represent total system demand as measured through the regional meters and from june 1 on basically into mid late september now that number has steadily been going down. People have been reducing water use out there and i think were seeing the effects, certainly here in San Francisco, recreation and Parks Department has done a good job at reducing irrigation and more by hand than Automated Systems that over splay and people are doing good work and the wholesale customers more than the city and theyre achieving that and again with total amount of savings. Here is where we want to be above the black dashed line. Were are in that line to achieve the target level of 209 milliongallons a day so everyone over the last months has done a wonderful job conserving out there and the customers deserve credit for that. This is the driest three year period in our record. When you use tree ring analysis and cord lait the tree ring with hydrology and look at a longer length of time an
Demand is down 20 and now were asking for 10 more, start to ask people to do a lot of things so we dont want to take that step unless we thoroughly understand the consequences of that but in the meantime if were in a different situation i think the rest of the state is going to look grim as well so there will be discussion about what needs to be done state wide and i think we have to think about alternative water supply options. Not that were going to build something tomorrow but do we need to think about a [inaudible] plant or direct potable reuse water strategy, something that might take time to implement but if the conditions consider those are the considerations that we as prudent water managers have to be thinking about so again if its a 1977 year we need to have serious conversations last spring. Briefly i will turn to the next topic and we indicated to the customers there are wasting behaviors not acceptable so we set up a system with 311, public works problem line for people to
If its the lowest bar with precipitation and see those conditions in april and may we will talk to our customers because we will plan for a 20 reduction in the coming months, whenever that might be, and one thing we need to talk to them is we all conserved a lot. The demand is down 20 and now were asking for 10 more, start to ask people to do a lot of things so we dont want to take that step unless we thoroughly understand the consequences of that but in the meantime if were in a different situation i think the rest of the state is going to look grim as well so there will be discussion about what needs to be done state wide and i think we have to think about alternative water supply options. Not that were going to build something tomorrow but do we need to think about a [inaudible] plant or direct potable reuse water strategy, something that might take time to implement but if the conditions consider those are the considerations that we as prudent water managers have to be thinking abo
Sounds harsh, but what about forward thinking . What about having a real conference on drought and bringing our university students, our scientists and addressing it just like when we had this napa earthquake. Thats what we need to do. Oh we have the reservoirs, this and that that and some charts over there that most of the people dont understand. We need to be forward thinking. Who is going to take the lead on this drought . We can save millions of gallons of water, gray water, right here in San Francisco. We have the technology. Why are some people keeping quiet . Why . People if you go to somebody and tell them listen this is what we can deliver. We have the technology and they poo poo you. Thats bad for San Francisco so i challenge this commission and i challenge the staff to meet with us. Weve had this conversation before with the general manager, with others in my writings. People have come over here and state to the San Francisco Public Utilities commission that we have propriet