judy irving up to the podium, followed by barry hermanson, and chris nicholson. please come up. welcome. >> it has been a long afternoon. thank you for your patience and thank you for having this hearing. this public hearing. i am a documentary filmmaker. i have made five films about the bay, delta and greenbelt over the last 30 years. i also made another film but that does not have to do with the water. in addition, i am a bay swimmer. i have been swimming in san francisco bay for 32 years. and i am very familiar with the bay delta system. i have been since the seventies. i am here to tell you that negotiated settlements that have been made over the past 30 years have not worked. i produced a film about the san joaquin river which had so much water to get out of it, as you no kak that sections of it, literally run dry. i have been swimming in the bay and i can tell you that the bay itself is saltier than it used to be because we get less water flowing down from the rivers. i i urge you to support the state water board's plan because it is adaptive management. it is a compromise