Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In fact, one of the areas that were pushing is our lawn be gone Rebate Program which is a Turf Replacement Program
Use and the summer is our biggest area to achieve those savings and specifically we looked to the urban areas. Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In
Example, they asked all their gardeners to reduce watering times by 10 . Turned off a lot of fountains and youll see a lot of dry fountains around the city and the only ones running is the ones to keep the mechanisms from falling apart. Were working with them. Were going to try to work with them to get fixtures replaced in the Recreation Center that will reduce water usage. I started producing a report for rec and park that shows by individual meter, their water use. Currently its all rolled up into one and they pay their bill, but were working with them to turn their meeting into a management tool in terms of water use reduction. If i may, so i also took note of the letter. The letter come from, i believe its a board president of one of the hoas at one i guess its a cooperative housing unit and its pointed, but i think its important because im also talking to rec and park, and what we wouldnt want to see is we wouldnt want to see the neighborhoods not have input. What i think would be
Tunnels and we have prioritized that on age. Were doing assessments, which robotic and video, so weve gotten several assets and were finding a lot of new information well be bringing back to you. Some assets are looking good, but some are going to be pushed at the top of the pile and have to require some work and some construction in phase 1. Theyre up to 100 years old that were looking at. On the Climate Change side, some breaking news. We have maps for the base side and west side which is going to help us as we plan this system, and i want to put up a map that reflects what the city will look like if we have a 36 inch sealable rise. This is a scenario that were expecting to be seeing in the year 2100 on a permanent basis. So its something thats a concern. In 2050, well be seeing some levels like this when we have storm surge or others. So 36 inches is quite real. Were using this information to inform how we execute the surge Improvement Program, how we design things, how we develop [
Everyone is aware of that and were pushing strongly the idea that you dont need to keep your grass green. It can be slightly brown. You can watch it enough to keep it alive. We do not need to kill things and this is not a mandatory reduction. Our water use has reduced by 19 on a per capital basis in the last ten years. Theres not that great amount of savings that can happen inside. You have to achieve these savings, hit the outdoor water use. Were pushing that strongly. Many of our cities have adopted ordinances are the ones youre talking about in which theyve asked their parks and Rec Department to reduce their water use, certain parks are not being irrigated, other ones depending upon the activity level at the parks and theyre being irrigated less and the recycled water makes that go farther for those areas which is a great benefit of recycled water, but its a big focus. In fact, one of the areas that were pushing is our lawn be gone Rebate Program which is a Turf Replacement Program