acula. good afternoon, nicole. >> good afternoon, president courtney, commissioners. i did want to come and speak on the water supply in particular i had the pleasure and i think the honor, i appreciated participating in the press event yesterday. more than ever, we're working quite closely with your staff and your general manager and focusing on the message to get the water reduced reductions. we got off to a bit of a rocky start, it was difficult with the rain that continued off and on. but we have seen a significant change in the last couple of weeks and in fact as we look at the data now, we're on track with an idea of getting an average annual water saving reduction. what that mean and you had a lot of conversation about landscaping is outdoor water 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 we're pushing strongly the idea that you don't 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 an