. >> dan wade is the director of the hetch hetchy water system improvement program.a cost of nearly $5 billion it's one of the largest engineering projects in the nation. >> the new irvington tunnel is steel lined and it has a concrete reinforcement. and that ensures that we have a reliable earthquake-resistant tunnel well into the future. >> the san francisco public utilities commission is in charge of making sure the taps keep flowing with this water. it originates 167 miles away at hetch hetchy reservoir in yosemite. but much of the system was built in the 1920s and '30s. today a major earthquake could leave parts of the bay area without water for a month. >> one of the primary goals of the water system improvement program is to ensure that within 24 hours after a major earthquake we will be able to deliver water to the customers. >> and to pay for it water rates have been going up. way up. for the system's customers who live in san francisco san mateo alameda, and santa clara counties. >> 1/3 of the customers live in san francisco, and so they're going to pay 1/3

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, dan wade and today's report covers from october 1st to december 31st of last year. at the end of the reporting period, the regional program was approximately 86 percent of the local program approximately 99 percent in the overall wsip complete. the overall program continues to be on schedule and on budget. that is that all of the projects will be complete by 2016 except for threee regional projects. those projects will be complete in construction by the end of 2018 and the total program would be closed out by 2019. our major activity obviously continues to be in construction. we have 14 projects in active construction worth about 2 1/2 billion dollars and as you can see from this chart, we only have two projects remaining in preconstruction, namely the alameda creek recapture and the ground water storage and recovery which is soon to go to construction and we have completed construction on 65 projects worth about a billion dollars or actually 1.3 billion. now, as always we have a number of accomplishments to report. rather than read off of these off to