. >> hi i'm dave erickson, we work on local solutions reducing greenhouse gas emissions. we have reductions and we're also very aware that governor targets the state 80 percent reduction 80 percent by 2050. given this need to reduce greenhouse gases significantly and given the direct relationship between water use and energy of greenhouse gas issues, do you think it's going to beness at a local level to put a cap, or a limit on the absolute amount of water that's used, or to start putting in place policies - such as no net increase in water - you say in a general plan or something like that further tests? >> couple of thoughts about action at the local level and those are not sort of tools we've thought about but there's interesting things happening the cities for climate control campaign. something like 50 municipalities signed up. so through the general purpose around the west about 50 western water providers are part of that campaign already. the municipal water district when jarrod hudson was the first to sign up for that from a new system provider. i think it's a rea

. >> dave erickson, (inaudible) we're a nonprofit (inaudible) i find it interesting we're dealing with primarily adaptations. we've got a lot of success looking at mitigation, looking at it from the side of what we're going to have to do locally to address the cost of global warming. i wonder if you could address what you see as being a proactive method for addressing solutions to going forward to lowering impacts, incorporating the integrated planning element. >> anybody want to tackle that one? . >> well, i happen to have the good fortune of being in a room with the executive directors of the metropolitan transportation commission, the association of bay area governments and the bay area management district the morning after governor schwarzenegger signed ab32. mag matic people all. at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what california does. but to a person they all said, but what this is about is leadership. it is anything you can do, anything step forward on this, anything we can be doing to introduce this problem and solutions into the way we as a society make decisions.