Our nation, surrounding it with the shield of your favor. How worthy you are of our praise. Strengthen our lawmakers for todays journey. Give them strong hearts, sound minds, and diligent hands. May they do their ethical best to represent you, joining their plans to your will in order to accomplish your purposes. Incline their hearts to your wisdom and love as you keep them on the path of integrity. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell today the senate is continuing to consider s. 1 a bill to approve the keystone x. L. Pipeline, and there are six amendments pending, three from each side. Well begin voting on those amendments as soon as chairman mu
Letting people know if theirs wasting water were going to do something about it were reporting to our water board and working with the city departments especially large users and irrigation and kwep with our that wholesale customers. If youre going to get to this in terms of clarify what the rules are for individuals whether its Small Business owners or Property Owners we have a lot of questions about am i allowed to wash my sidewalk the state realize that are promulgated weve go forward the fact that cities exist so the urban watering of the lawn you cant let it run off we have a lot of heavy uses and people and other stuff on our sidewalks i know can you let us know the rules for homeowners and Small Business owners. This is the next slide it shows the basic rules thats been adapted the first thing is basically, you cant over Water Landscapes h that one weve had on the book as a registration in San Francisco thats been a rule in San Francisco for many times you cant law water to flow
Them to access the resident, and i hear it from the hotels and i hear it from the working class families here and the latino and arabac and others, and they have been asking for wifi and in fact when we welcome in the tech companies, here just down the street from the tender loin, the residents say that we want them to come and we hope that they will partner with us to bring in the wifi so that we can access the internet and as the supervisor mark farrell says that it is a need now and you can access the Employment Training programs find out about jobs and clothes and services and on the free wifi, wherever they can get it to be able to access, really vital information, and in order to live and to thrive here in San Francisco and that is what the program is going to mean in the residents to the tender loin and i am excited and the Mayors Office and under the leadership of mark farrell that we are going to bring this to the open space and parts here in the neighborhood and so thank you
Youre washing your car with no notice he will and letting the water run thats not allowed. Okay. And the puc had programs that a lot of people dont know about in terms of faucets and showerheads theres a lot of past number of years ago when you sell a home have a local toilet in and i think there might be a rebeat for that. Yeah. Well cover that. For those things people dont know. We want to make sure that the programs are gotten out there and the last of the prohibitions is the decorative water foundations those are noting not hard to comply with their statewide we have them in the books the shut off notice he lives and the wasting water is not a good idea well go beyond those if it gets worse but there those are a starting point through august its collectively down 12 percent one hundred and 88 gallons and dpw the port and the puc and rec and park are above the 10 percent reduction goal and 79 percent for the housing goal but those are collectively its one hundred and 88 mile gallons
Boarder points about the sour 85 percent of our water comes from the river; is that correct . Yes. How does it compare to other cities were extremely reinstate on one source is that that typical should he be trying to diverse. We tend to be more reinstate on one source we have the local ours resources like if theres hetch hetchy are plumbing were diversifying our water sources weve improved two ground projects in the past year local ground water on the west side and the Recovery Project on the with wholesale customers that is before the board later on this month to move forward with the construction ear working hard to diversity our resources but at the same time, if i had to pick a water shed in california it would be it. The wall me providing more do you see that number going down as we go online with the other sources. It b b will come to balancing certainly the ground Water Project in San Francisco weight provide about 4 million glances a day nates thats not a large number we can j