proponents in collecting and treating alternative water sources for gray water systems for urinal and toilet flushing as well as irrigation 31 fre mont -- i think you will hear a presentation on this is you aren't construction to intall a system for collecting rainwater for toilet and irrigation. the last examples are examples of scale operations maconi is looking at expanding the center there say lot of drainage at masconi center we're looking to capture at the convention center as well as the possibility of installing a truck fill station to provide water for street sweeping purposes in downtown san francisco. we have another project. project. puc has been working with the department of public works to install a treatment system at un plaza the truck fill station the purpose of the water would be again for street cleaning downtown san francisco irrigation and for fountain make up water as i mentioned all of the materials are available online the ordinance our guide book and grant pam at smp.org and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have >> thank you. your staff has been helpful with this pr

water should not be used with flushing toilets irrigation and the likes we know we can make broad use of recycles water it's a severe public policy crisis if it continues it will be an exterrible threat to our state this say long-term structural problem that the state should have addressed many years ago it's never too late to start addressing this huge problem according to estimates we may have a year or two stored water capacity left in california if the drought continued unabated even when this drought ends we will still be vulnerable to the same water shortages for decades to come as our population grows we must take aggressive policy actions now to conserve water and make the best and most efficient use of the water we have. last year in this committee i held a hearing on a drought and what the city is doing around efforts to use nonportable water for nonpublic uses and what we can do to improve water conservation and reuse in san francisco. at the time i was and still am interested in legislation to require water sub metering in sub unit buildings because they will be paying the

you know, if you switch out your old, six-gallon-per-flush toilet with a new 1.2-gallon-per-flush toilet when it starts raining again in a year or two or three years you're not going tear the new toilet out and put the old one back in. and the good news is, what that has meant is that over the last 30 years big cities like l.a., san jose, san diego, san francisco, they're using as much, if not less water now than they were 30 years ago, despite the population growth. and there's a lot more low-hanging fruit. these lawns there's a lot of old appliances. when you replace this stuff, you actually are shrinking the water footprint, which is really important. >> it is important. and of course people are paying a lot of attention, keeping an eye their neighbor's water use as well. the santa clara valley water district says it's hiring more people to handle all the calls it's getting at its drought hotline. the district has a team of inspectors looking for water waste. dan steiner, a student at uc berkeley's graduate school of journalism, spent some time with one member of that team. >> i do no

program and making changes for the toilet program not to give a rebate if you have 1 point of flushed toilets we're trying to target those we don't care if we'll give a rebate for the toilets that use less than .08 gladdens and taking the the turf to help consumers we'll encourage them to plant in october hopefully it starts to rain again and also implementing new programs give a ways you know that actually exceeds the state standards for showerheads and stuff i tell the public if you have a showerhead you like it might be an old one get a free take away and use it until the drought is over and replace it with you're old showerhead and we're piloting a we

program and making changes for the toilet program not to give a rebate if you have 1 point of flushed toilets we're trying to target those we don't care if we'll give a rebate for the toilets that use less than .08 gladdens and taking the the turf to help consumers we'll encourage them to plant in october hopefully it starts to rain again and also implementing new programs give a ways you know that actually exceeds the state standards for showerheads and stuff i tell the public if you have a showerhead you like it might be an old one get a free take away and use it until the drought is over and replace it with you're old showerhead and we're piloting a weather based water control for large landscaper those are tiered targeted in the weather based criteria providing a rebate for the customers in that program and then my staff is working together with our fellow to develop a conservatism program we do landscape commercialism but there was a desire to have a program that could be offended in the service area that just is not about landscaping per say but water conservatism and some of the areas

the blm wants flushing toilets, washers, dryers even ice cream available for its staff and visiting it dignitaries. i think a lot of people would appreciate that. >>> a festival spokesperson says the total cost bob $5 million to do it. so far burning man organizers are not agreeing to the demands. >>> and a powerful state regularity leaving office in a cloud of controversy now the new boss faces tough questions from our investigative wrunt. what we found out coming up. david sweat, the convicted murderer who has been on the >>> the manhunt is over. david sweat, the convicted murderer who had been on the run for 22 days now was captured just a few hours ago only a mile and a half from the canadian border. he was brought down after a short chase by a local police officer who spotted sweat simply a.m. bling down the road. when he took off running the officer shot him in the torso. he is now hospitalized in stable condition. police say that sweat was unarmed and reported that the two convicts had been throwing off blood hounds with black pepper. the other escapee richard matt was killed on

and flushing toilets. >> she's playing this woman.he woman who didn't take anything. you can't suddenly have big eyelashes. >> she went to the dirt and went like that. some girls will makeshift and ke shuf happen. >> did you say shift? >> a makeshift solution. >> no, i heard a different word. >> no -- make -- >> i wanted to clarify. i heard a totally different word. [ cheers and applause ] >> some people, you know, melt crayons to make lip strik or kool-aid to dye your hair. >> you're in the wild and the dust is blowing, you know, i guess you could -- i guess you could get some stuff off the road or -- i guess you could. i'm not sure. >> who cares? i mean, really. >> you never know where you're kind of partner will fall in? maybe he'll come out of a cave or something. but you know, strange things happen. we're talking about all the weird stuff because women have apparently caught up to men in one specific category. the average woman today weighs as much as the average man did in the 1960s, which is about 166. uh -- some people seem to

at a minimum, potable water should not be used for flushing toilets, irrigation other uses. california's water shortage is in severe policy price. some called it an existential crisis and is not a temporary problem. the point to some estimates, we may only have a year or two storm water left if this child continues unabated. even when this drought eventually ends, was to be vulnerable to the same water shortage issues and ongoing state projected to come. we need structural changes on how we use this precious resource. you must take aggressive policy actions now, no more waiting -- to conserve water to make the very best and most efficient use of the limited water we have. last year i have the hearing on the drought. the city is doing on efforts to use non-potable water for public uses the policies we could increment to improve water conservation or reuse inner-city. at the hearing, weird about the qcs on-site water we use program.. through this program developers work with the puc to voluntarily install systems to capture gray water from sinks and laundry, rainwater foundati

they want flushing toilets, washers, triers even ice cream for its staff in the vip compound.y are threatening to block the event not issue permits if they don't get the burning man organization to comply. now, festival spokesperson says the cost of meeting such demands would be about $5 million. so far organizers are not agreeing to the demands. >> it sounds like a lot of a waste of water. >> scratch the ice cream but stick with the bathrooms. those seem important out there. >>> people in south america are feasting their eyes on what scientists say is the largest dinosaur find ever. >> bones from the titanosaur wept on display at a museum in argentina argentina. scientists discovered the remains of the new species last year. it's a slow process, pale tolling gists say the dinosaur 66 feet tall 132 feet long, in fact, it's so big the museum is building an expansion, a whole new wing to hold the record breaking remains of this massive dinosaur. >> that is so exciting. >> and your kids are nuts about it. >> my little boy is a dinosaur fanatic. if it weren't so far away we would

, is used for the sprinkler system this knowledge to allot of parodies they're ready use a low flush toiletand a great american there and the process of installing your mouse at use very little water now tell me the goal is to continue a serving as much as they can as the drought continues to. >>catherine heenan: hobart is closing a stretch of track and that could affect about a week in plans service between the oakland coliseum and the for the station will be shut down all day saturday and sunday at 8:00 a.m. when says this is for critical mean that there will be a bus bridge in the train to go up and running in time for game 5 of the finals on sunday and that the fans will be increased again to take part the south of a teenager is accused of masterminding an armed home invasion robbery against his own family they say he was arrested and arraigned on zero felony first-degree robbery charge of home invasion happened and san jose last month or looking at part of the security video three other people are arrested to teenagers also a man in his 20s the teenagers are charged as adults they say

so, no flushing toilets even for a seventh day. just imagine folks living without a toilet that flushes or any lights or any means to just recover. you are only cleaning up in the daytime ape at nighttime you are trying to wonder if i will wake up to power and here they are waking up monday morning, they were told to expect power five to seven days but those estimates were right on, lauren. >> this is unbelievable. steve keeley, thanks very much. >>> also new this morning police are looking in the robbery that left one man dead in east germantown late last night around 9:45 p.m. a 20 year-old man was shot one time in the back at north wister, and the victim was taken to the hospital where he died shortly after there have been no arrests made in this case. >>> in the northeast police responded to shots fired in the 3,000 block of frankford avenue just before 11:30. one man is in critical condition after being hit in the stomach by flying bullets. two suspects have been taken into police custody. detectives say they have recovered tw

. >> most of us don't think about the waste whether it's flushing the toilet or throwing things in the garbage. it just kind of disappears and i think as a society we've been very successful at sort of hiding where the waste goes and i think as time goes on and population grows and waste generation grows, then we've become more aware of waste generation and the things that we need to do to handle it. >> for me, i feel it's a great responsibility not to leave such a big impact in the city, and in the world for the next generation. >> so through all of this it's clear there is a problem out there with recycling, with way too much trash so what can we do as consumers? >> some people think it's an individual choice. we just need to get better at sorting our trash and sorting our recyclables and actually following through. others think that we need to be taking a legislative approach. i mean san francisco, they've banned water bottles on government property and maybe we can do more things like that. >> when i work in latin america, glass bottles are the norm there. that is what you use when

they're asking for hot water, ac, flushing toilets on the camp. this point organizers haven't signed off on the request. the bureau of land management says the upgrades are needed for added security physical lowing a deadly crash last -- added security following a deadly crash last year. >>> and a bay area native having anticipation as he waited to see which team could choose him. >>> why a marine biologist thinks 15 great white sharks headed further north than they usually do. ♪ ♪ ♪ you're only young once. unless you have a subaru. (announcer) the subaru xv crosstrek. symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 34 mpg. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >>> three separate terror attacks on three different continents after a call for violence. the deadliest was at a beach resort in tenesia. gunmen started shooting on the beach killing 38 people and wounding 36 others. many of them were tourists from europe. isis claimed responsibility for that attack. >>> in southern france a truck driver crashed into an american owned company. he then decapitated the

water from maybe your dishwasher or washing maine that's put through a filter and then reus for flushing toiletshat don't involve consumption. one laaker sees the use of gray water as the wave of california's future. >> i think we have todo everything from making sure that new construction has a recycled water option, to making sure that we streamline the ability let businesses or homeowners or anybody who wants to water connect to the cities that have this wonderful source of recycled water that they herwise just have to give away or run down the drain. >> facilies are set to be built statewide, including one in silicon valley. >>> tremendous news for the state's raisin farmers. the federal government may no longer simply takeart of a raise in crop for its own use. our report the reporter from our sister station has the story. >>eporter: marvin has been called a renegade rain grower, but he says he's just a small farmer trying to survivon 100 acres of grapes. >> we always knew we were right. if you want my raisins, just pay us for them. >> reporter: in an 8-1 vote the u.s. supreme court ruledhe

the bureau of land management which issues permits for burning man festival would like flushing toiletse cream for staff and visiting dignitaries. they are threatening to block the event if burning manifest val doesn't comply. >> the demand would be $5 million. any anyone who has been to burning man can relate to those demand. >> water, electricity. >> people in south america are getting a rare glimpse of which scientists say is the largest dinosaur ever found and you know that's big. bones from the titanasaur went on display in argentina. the remains were discovered last year. it'll take years for researchers to uncover the entire thing and it is more than 60 feet tall and 130 feet long. it is so big the museum is building an expansion to hold the record-breaking remains. >> you know they had the con section venter dinosaur exhibit this weekend. >> i know. i was going to try to take my son. >> wonder if they have a big enough room. >> have a great night and great week. take care. >>> coming up on giants clubhouse, we take a lk back at the giants rotation with a milestone on the mound.

from maybe your dishwasher or washing machine that's put through a filter and then reused for flushing toilets watering lawns, or other things that don't involve consumption. one lawmaker sees the use of gray water as the wave of california's future. >> i think we have to do everything from making sure that new construction has a recycled water option, to making sure that we streamline the ability to let businesses or homeowners or anybody who wants to water connect to the cities that have this wonderful source of recycled water that they otherwise just have to give away or run down the drain. >> facilities are set to be built statewide, including one in silicon valley. >>> tremendous news for the state's raisin farmers. the federal government may no longer simply take part of a raise in crop for its own use. our report the reporter from our sister station has the story. >> reporter: marvin has been called a renegade raisin grower, but he says he's just a small farmer trying to survive on 100 acres of grapes. >> we always knew we were right. if you want my raisins, just pay us for them. >> rep

cording to the reno gazette journal the bureau wants flushing toilets, washers and dreyer's and even ice creams for the staff and visiting dignitaries and threatening to block the event from happening if the burning man organization doesn't comply. the festival spokesperson said the cost of such demands would be $5 million. >> that's a lot of money. we'll be back in just a minute. scott/vo it was making it's way near >>> migrating humpback whale is finally getting a taste of freedom. >> making his way near sydney when whale watchers spotted it dragging three buoys. authorities were able to cut the ropes away just in time. one of the rescuers said the whale would have died had it not been freed from the trap. that's been a very common problem. >> we just saw one in monterey bay, too. they're looking for it. hopefully they'll have the same luck. >>> thanks for joining us. our next cast is tonight at 5:00. get out there and enjoy the temperatures before get a little hotter. >> enjoy all the latest information, including weather cast at nbcbayarea.com. have a wonderful day. >>> today on

if they want to use east bay mud to flush toilets or santa clara valley water district to get water or whatever, they're affected. >> the san francisco bay conservation and development commission is getting leaders from nine different counties and 41 cities all to the table to talk about the rising water levels and create a regional noon try to handle it. >> new this morning, a ground breaking climate case out of the nether lands that could have an impact worldwide. a dutch court order the government to cut the country's greenhouse gas emission by at least 25% by the year 2020. that case was brought by 900 citizens claiming the government has a duty to protect its people against moving disasters and that includes the effects of climate change in the low-lying country. >> last couple of days have been the picture of perfection on the weather front. >> now it's going to start heating up. meteorology kari hall is here with when that's going to happen. >> we don't want to talk about it, but we have to, we have to, because you want to be prepared. as you head out today, we start out with lo

by the time i flushed the toilet i heard the front door closed and i knew something was wrong.ic hit. i ran downstairs. she wasn't by the microwave. i ran out the front door, i screamed her name, couldn't find her anywhere. >> reporter: savannah and her 2-year-old brother tommy who doesn't have a disability didn't respond. they got past a barbed wire fence into a bond, not 50 yards from the home. tommy had been wearing a bicycle helmet that kept his head above water and kept him alive. the desperate mother couldn't breathe life back into savannah. >> i just - i - it was just - i ... >> reporter: tried to keep her. >> i got to keep her alive. i've got to do this. and i did that until the mts came. i kept screaming "you have to they took over. say her, you have to say her." >> reporter: savannah's story is a case of what experts call eloping, wondering for bolting. >> they wait for a chance to bolt. for my son, it's certain sounds. this they will make him run away quickly. if you are unprepared for that, you may not catch him in time. >> by quickly you mean in a second. >> in an

. >> hearing a toilet flush for the first time was a big deal and made headlines. [ toilet flushes ] >> what's the country coming to? >> what is it, bad news? >> what else? >> we get out of vietnam or something? >> don't be a wise guy, huh. >> i wasn't going to play around with mom dented the car. how are we going keep dad from finding out. not when i see everything going on in the country. >> just because a guy is sensitive and he's intellectual and wears glasses you make him out to be a queer. >> a guy who wears glasses is a four-eyes, a guy -- >> "all in the family" did something new for television. it put something before the american public. archie's friend who was masculine and happened to be gay. >> how long you know me? 10, 12 years? >> yeah. >> in all that time did i ever mention a woman? >> oh, come on, steve. >> nixon objection to the show, that was a badge of honor. it was really culturally on point. every time. for a sitcom that was unheard of. >> one, two, three. >> i wanted to do an episode where somebody could give archie what he earned. >> shut up all of you! >> we c

they want to use east bay mud to flush their toilets or santa clara valley water district to get water or whatever, they're affected. >> the san francisco conservation and development commission is getting leaders from 9 counties and 41 cities to the table to talk about the rising water to create a regional plan to handle it. >>> the title change in the weather, probably not but a climb in the heat as the week progressans let's check in with kari hall. >> good morning. we've been talking about this all week, the warm-up headed this way. but today will be the last day we'll be able to leave the ac off or maybe turn it on for an hour or two, and then turn it back. the temperatures are cool. campbell 56 degrees as you walk out the door and downtown san jose is out in at 58. the rest of the microclimate give us low to mid-50s across the bay. and today we won't have a strong onshore flow, more northwesterly wind and it will be rolling pack in with a westerly wind to cool cou cool down temperatures but the winds not that strong. as we look at microclimates today, redwood city reaching 81. sa

second page is very obvious. 72,000,000 gallons a year equates to roughly residential use for toilet flushing it was recycled water for 31,000 people. or, the recycled water and toilets for 90,000 people. it's real simple idea. i don't think it fits into pages. if you can be part of seen this look at that i'd appreciate it thank you. >> thank you for taking the time to put this together and perhaps the general manager could take this to stop and look at it and review it and >> sure. also, say that we're looking at recycled at the southeast. were looking at that way to use our aws s as well and route there repairing the leaks. so, this will help us with that looking at all that together. >> yes. i'll make it quick, but i've worked with staff, paula -- and other people in the organization. i've read the reports that doesn't seem there's this one option. anyway with all due respect thank you. >> thank you. any the public almonds? next item, please >> communications. >> any comments on communications? commissioners, any public comment exit hearing none, next item please >> item 6 other commission

. >> reporter: she then carries the soapy water to the bathroom where her husband uses it to flush the toilet. to flush, we just do this until we see it start going down. >> reporter: and then there's the showers strategy. dan catches water from the shower while he waits for it to warm up. >> after i've gathered the water and it's heated up i just turn the water off, i'll soap up right? get soap everywhere and then turn it back on to rinse off. it's called a navy shower but you can save a lot of water that way. >> reporter: here colleen using the same water she washes vegetables with to water her garden. the bucket brigade tactics are working. the daltons' last bill showed only 37 gallons of water a day erly one third of what they used in 2013. to give you some perspective, the average water use for just one person in santa clara county is 90 gallons a day. the daltons say it's not that hard you just have to stop think and not let water run down the simp. in hayward marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> up next at 11:00, hated in the bay area but beloved by the gaming community vlgts getting

. >> reporter: she then carries it to the bathroom where her husband uses it to flush the toilet. >> for a flush we just do this until we see it start going down. >> reporter: then there's the shower strategy. dan catches watter from the shower while he waits for it to warm up. >> after i've gathered the water and it's heated up i just turn the water off and i'll soap up use soap everywhere and turn it back on to rinse off. so it's called a navy shower. but you can save a lot of water that way. >> reporter: and here colleen uses the same water she washes vegetables with to water her garden. the bucket brigade tactics are working. their last bill showed they used only 37 gallons of water a day. nearly 1/3 of what they used in 2013. to give you some perspective, the average water use for just one person in santa clara county is 90 gallons a day. the daltons say it's not that hard, you just have to stop, think, and not let water run down the sink. >>> the rainy weather is causing a myriad of issues for drivers. this is 880 in oakland. south, it's going heavy in both directions. chp says

you know, one example i saw was you're gonna know when you flush your toilet. it gets down to that kind of granularity. >> that plan is awaiting state regulatory approval. in san jose, david louie -- abc7 news. >> so many things to think about. a prominent expert on water issues is here with us in the studio right now -- dr. david sedlak. he's a professor of civil and environmental engineering at uc berkeley and deputy director of the national science foundation's research center for re-inventing the nation's urban water infrastructure, and that's called renuwit? >> renuwit. that's right. yeah. >> that little acronym. so, we're watching, david. so, is it a long timeline to get that happening, to get that water into the aquifers? >> well, that's the way civil engineering projects go. if you think how long it took us to build the bay bridge, it takes a long time to build these massive projects because there's time to design and finance and build and test before they can be opened up to the public. >> but we're in a crisis right now because -- and, actually, this

residents had trouble flushing their toilets.ey had an 18 inch iguana stuck in their toilet pipe. >> that's gross, john. >>> the newest way to combine dinner and a movie. pizza hut inveiling a pizza box that can be converted into a movie projector using your smartphone. we're skeptical but open to the possibility that it works. >>> thanks for joining us. >>> "the real story with gretchen carlson" starts now. >>> fox news alert. new leads in the hunt for the two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum security prison in new york. police question a worker at the prison. i'm gretchen carlson. here to bring you the real story on this today. joyce mitchell. this is the woman. reportedly a person of interest now in this case. officials say richard matt and david sweat used power tools to cut through the steal walls of their cells and escape through a network of underground pipes. police confirm they're now focusing on a small upstate town in that search. david lee miller live for us in that town in new york. david, what have you