grown the salt plant, on waste lands, deserts, using sea water irrigation to solve land, water, food, energy, and climate afford bli and soon. all of it. there are two types of plants. fresh water plants and then halophyte, salt water plants used for food and fodder in india and other countries for hundreds of years. a goodly portion of the sahara is capable if we plowed it up and irrigated with the mediterranean and grew halophytes with direct sea water irrigation of producing sufficient biomass to replace all of the carbon fuels,

fell into this irrigation ditch and ended up on his back. >> there is nowhere he can go. he's stuck. >> how do you work with a huge animal like that that's flailing about? i don't know where to start. >> i tell you how they do this. they have a lot of people pitch in. they have two vets there with this elephant. they had aadminister pain medication. everything they do absolutely >> it only took about an hour total to get the elephant back to its feet. >> this is possibly the worst thing that can happen when you are paragliding in the sky. this is in turkey. this is a tandem flight. they are pulling off these maneuvers. watch and see what happens. >> this is the worst thing that could ever happen. >> it looks okay. before they knew it two pieces below them a huge body of water. >> now they are plunging to their sure death. >> almost immediately after they deploy the reserved chutes -- they're in the water. fortunately, they survived this one. >> they must have just overloaded that wing with the two of them on there. >> it seriously just looked like giant scissors that came

we are completely renovating the irrigation system and in addition to the operations we are building two new restroom buildings. this fund was part of the park renovation fund. we knew community was very supportive of a renovation fund. we engaged in a community process which we began with the park to do a detailed assessment of the condition of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can. >> parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> the work begins. so are you going out tonight? i can't. my parents say i have to be home right after work. ugh. that's so gay. totally gay. ugh. that is so emma and julia. why are you saying, "that's so emma and julia"? well, you know, when something is dumb or stupid, you say, "that's so emma and julia." who says that? everyone. announcer: imagine if who you are were used as an insult. >> good morning, everybody.

there's no reason to be irrigating.t waste your water. >> if there was no more rain fall for the winter, sonoma would be in the same drought situation as they were last year. >>> consumers should avoid prepackaged caramel apples. they have been linked to four veaths and two dozen illnesses in ten states. people are being sickened with an illness similar to list teary. they are trying to determine which brands are involved and how the caramel apples may have become infected. >>> a cat has been rescued after spending 10 days in a storm drain. neighbors say they can't the cat was not washed away it survived three storms and a lot of running water. on thursday, a group of about 15 people managed to coax the cat back to the surface, and now the cat's rescuers are trying to find her original owners. >> we are going to scan her to see if she has a microchip. if not, we will get her the veterinarian care she needs. she survived how many storms in the storm drain? everyone said to name her storm, and i thought stormy was more fi

grown the salt plant, on waste lands, deserts, using sea water irrigation to solve land, water, food, energy, and climate afford bli and soon. all of it. there are two types of plants. fresh water plants and then halophyte, salt water plants used for food and fodder in india and other countries for hundreds of years. a goodly portion of the sahara is capable if we plowed it up and irrigated with the mediterranean and grew halophytes with direct sea water irrigation of producing sufficient biomass to replace all of the carbon fuels, provide petro chemical feedstock and all the food anybody wants to eat while returning much of the 68% of the fresh water we're now running out of for direct human use. i.e. solves land, water because we're substituting salt water to grow food, solves food because we're growing food. solves energy because we're producing biomass and biofuels at about $50 a barrel. the climate because we're sequestering some 18% of the co2. so conventional wisdom for but lture -- salt is bad with this salt is good. 97% of the sea water -- of the water is sea water. we won't

this garden was made with the idea that it wouldn't be overly irrigated. plants that are up on higher ground are plants that you would expect to find in upland situations where they don't need a lot of water. a great example of that is the small tree, the common hop tree or wafer ash tree. the little wafer-like fruits that it makes are attractive enough on their own right. but they were used as a substitute for making homemade brews back in colonial times. it was used as a hop substitute and hence the name hop tree. a lot of people find this plant to be unexpected here. it looks good along the boardwalk. this is actually a native bamboo. most people think of that as an asian plant. but there are three or four species here in eastern north america. this one usually goes by the common name river cane. it once existed in huge swaths along riverways from maryland south and up into the ohio and mississippi river valleys. it's now down to a very small percentage of its original holdings. american colonizers tended to follow the same track that native americans d

as a result they have 260,000 irrigation wells. -- 26 million irrigation wells. this is serious overpumping but no one's in charge. you don't have to have a license so anyone can drill an irrigation well. but at some point, the world bank estimated that 175 million people in india are being fed with grain produced by overpumping water. you can overpump in the short run. but by definition not in the long run. and that's where we're seeing some dramatic adjustments, probably the most dramatic in the world would be the arab country, syria, iraq. those four countries have all overpumped their aquifers. they've experienced water and have all experienced big grain. this is the first glare the -- first area in the world. first region where we have seen grain production declined and as a result translated into peak grain. we've been looking at rising -- let me mention one other thing -- one is climate change. it's very difficult. we know what the effects of water shortages are. climate change is very difficult to assess. we know that a one degree rise in temperature, one

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they have 26 million diesel-powered irrigation pumps. and the plan is to replace every one of them with a solar-powered irrigation pump. and save a lot of money in the process. the payback time on these solar-powered water pumps is from one to four years depending on the situation and from how far down they're pumping the water. i mentioned earlier, the scaling up that we're seeing with wind farms. we're also seeing the same thing with solar cells. solar cells can scale up and they can scale down. they can scale down to this little strip on my watch that provides the electricity to run it. and they can go all the way up to 200 megawatts 200 megawatts. there's really no limit to the size. and there are close to 100 of these large plants being built now in the southwestern united states. at the end of last year, the world had 139,000 megawatts of solar-generating capacity. that's equal to 139 nuclear power plants. but it's growing by an extraordinary rate. between 30% and 70% per year. one of the most exciting things happening now is actua

they have 26 million diesel-powered irrigation pumps. and the plan is to replace every one of them with a solar-powered irrigation pump. and save a lot of money in the process. the payback time on these solar-powered water pumps is from one to four years depending on the situation and depending on the situation and from how far down they're pumping the water. i mentioned earlier, the scaling up that we're seeing with wind farms. we're also seeing the same thing with solar cells. solar cells can scale up and they can scale down. they can scale down to this little strip on my watch that provides the electricity to run it. and they can go all the way up to 200 megawatts, 200 megawatts. there's really no limit to the size. and there are close to 100 of these large plants being built now in the southwestern united states. at the end of last year, the world had 139,000 megawatts of solar-generating capacity. that's equal to 139 nuclear power plants. but it's growing by an extraordinary rate. between 30% and 70% per year. one of the most exciti

as a result they have 260,000 irrigation wells. serious overpumping but no one's in charge. you don't have to have a license so anyone can drill an irrigation well. but at some point, the world bank estimated that 175 million people in india are being fed with grain produced by overpumping water. you can overpump in the short run. but by definition not in the long run. and that's where we're seeing some dramatic adjustments, probably the most dramatic in the world would be the arab country, syria iraq. those four countries have all overpumped their aquifers. they've experienced water and have all experienced big grain. this is the first glare the world, first region where we have seen grain production declined and as a result translated into peak grain. we've been looking at rising -- let me mention one other thing -- one is climate change. it's very difficult. we know what the effects of water shortages are. climate change is very difficult to assess. we know that a one degree rise in temperature, one degree celsius rise reduces g

we are completely renovating the irrigation system and in addition to the operations we are building two new restroom buildings. this fund was part of the park renovation fund. we knew community was very supportive of a renovation fund. we engaged in a community process which we began with the park to do a detailed assessment of the condition of the park and very details conversation about what we can do in the park and utilize what we can. >> parks are where people can gather and where to relax and a lot of people in the city don't have back yards and this is where we come to be with our community. >> 1, 2, 3. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> the work begins. >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse

there's no reason to be irrigating and don't waste water. >> officials say if there's no more rainfall this winter, they would be still in the same drought condition as it was last year. >>> water levels in the area as ten reservoirs have gone up a total of ten %. county water managers say that's because the sat rated ground is sending more rain water into local creeks and into the reservoirs. the water officials do add that this does not mean it's time to stop conserving. >> we're definite netly still in a doubt. we have not seen a recovery of our ground water supplies, imported water which we depend on in this county is still very low. we still need to conserve. >> county officials say we'll still northbound a drought, that is until ground water levels get back to normal. officials are hoping that the months to come will bring some more big storms. >>> it may feel like winter has been around for a month already but it hasn't started yet, not officially anyway. official start is tomorrow. it is the shortest darkest day of the year. if you want to mark it in grand style, you could head

no room to be irrigated and the waste water. officials say there's no more rainfall summit county will be in the same truck condition as it was at this time last year >> : consisted rain has been good news for the south bay water wells and the area and the reservoirs, the total 10%. county water managers say it's because saturated ground is putting more rainwater in the local creeks and in the reservoir is as well. water officials add that this does not mean it's time to stop serving. >> : the family still in a drought events in a recovery of kron water supply is an important are still very low we still need to conserve. county officials saying still in drug conditions took on water levels get back to normal they hope that the months to come will bring many more big storms >> : for israel brought back tough memories for business owners and to braun so clean up for the past flooding. sandbags 75 doors of the pro shopping center friday and business owners their trend keep water on of their already damaged stores and owner of nearb

water that farmers say they need to irrigate their crops. >> these trees will die if they go two months water. >> and they are uneasy about leaks and spills. he videotaped the illegal dumping of fracking waste water in a pit near his orchard. >> i know what happens in this area. whatever chemicals we've used on the surface, a lot of chemicals have made their way into our ground water already. >> reporter: ol' manned farming is an $11 billion industry in california's central valley, and every single almonds depends on what is the soil and water. if the water and soil are contaminated so are the almonds. almonds. jason marshall is the department director in charge of regulating the oil and gas industry in california. >> who is protecting the people of california to make sure that their ground water is not being contaminated. >> there is a multitude of agencies that are looking out for that because there is a multitude of jurisdictions. >> one of those agencies is the california water resource control board in sacramento. shawn heads ground monitoring an assessment. >> is fracking poisonin

. >> rescuers try to free an elephant that fell into this irrigation ditch. >> why it takes a village to get this guy out. >> two paragliders face what's probably the worst thing that can happen to you. >> see a tandem flight descent into sheer terror. >> plus a kid who knows his touchdowns. >> yay! >> and dude's not happy. >> something's in his ear and he can't get it out. >> see if you can guess what

. >> reporter: just a few weeks ago the ranch's irrigation ponds were at 30% of capacity. >> mark, itost possible to walk across the bottoms of our ponds before thanksgiving. >> reporter: but on monday, all of the irrigation ponds reached 100%. and with the cold temperatures, the outlook is 2015 could be double last year's production. just a few miles away, the rains contributed to this breach in a levee on the novato creek. county supervisors have proclaimed the county disaster area in hopes of tapping into federal and state aid. >> in order to really build it right, you actually have to take part of it down and rebuild slowly. >> reporter: the projected cost of the levee repairs, $1 million. in part because it's an emergency contract. >> which means they work a lot of hours, they work saturday and sunday, and you're paying for all of that labor and time. >> reporter: it's an emergency because we are starting off with a record-setting rainy season. and there are king tides not only next week but also scheduled for january and february. >>> be sure to download our nbc bay area app for

. >> reporter: saving them from this small irrigation canal just east of woodlands, while back in theelta they took a wrong turn leaving the sacramento river swimming 30 miles in a ditch! ending up here in the middle of john brennan's rice farm. >> the drain that they are headed up is not headed towards spawning ground. it's headed to a maze of drains up on the west sideful valley. >> reporter: to certain death until the department of fish and wildlife took action. they tagged them and then 12 at a time drive them back to the sacramento river. >> they can make their decision whether they want to go up the feather or the sacramento or wherever they need to go. >> reporter: but not in a ditch. >> not in a ditch. that's exactly it. >> reporter: scientists say the confused fish keep coming because to them, the water smells and feels much like the river, especially on a rainy day when the irrigation water is flowing like the river current. one solution, reconnect the top of the ditch back to the river allowing the fish to escape. how far is the river from the ditch? >> two miles. >> report

he interacted with ordinary people and advanced important infrastructure projects such as irrigation systems. they call him the father of the land. the king was hospitalized in october suffering from high fever. he has not left the hospital and he has also had his gallbladder removed. at this hospital where the king has been treated, hundreds of people visit every day to pray for his health. ahead of his birthday, more and more people come to offer prayers for the king. well-wishers from the countryside travel hundreds of miles by bus to get here. >> translator: every day all the monks in our temple chant and pray for the king's health to recover. >> translator: we wish the king good health and a speedy recovery. may the king stay with us for forever. >> translator: long live the king! >> reporter: this man is one of the royal shoemakers. he has been in charge of repairing the king's shoes for over a decade. sometimes he also makes new pairs. shoes made and repaired are used in a poster to promote the sufficiency economy philosophy long advocated by the king. >> translator: the shoes

17 approve the terms and conditions and authorize the general manager to have a month to month irrigation district procedure. >> i'll move that. >> further discussion all in favor, say i. >> opposed? the vote carries. >> next item and item 8 authorizing the general manager to execute an extension of a restated lease in the patrick garden club up to 90 additional days. >> move that. >> further discussion all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries. >> would you like a public comment. >> public comment? will i ever learn very good >> could you please read the items in closed session. >> item 21 conference with property new yorker our properties on 2 thousand merry run and other streets in san francisco item 22 the unmitigated claim san francisco versus the engineering and it's carries item 23 existing unmitigate claim listing can and item 24 unmitigated claim and items 25, 26, 27, and 28 are removed from the calendar are there any public comment on the items to be heard in closed session? seeing none, may i have a motion on whether or not to assert >> close to assert. >> all in favor,

just a good portion of the sahara is capable irrigated with the mediterranean and produces sufficient petrochemical feedstock for all of the plastics and all of the food anybody wants to be while returning much of the 60% of the freshwater they are running out of for direct human news. i eveland, wastelands and deserts, south water because we are substituting salt water to grow food. food because we are going to. energy because we are producing biomass -- biofuels at about $50 a barrel in a climate because we are sequestering some 18% of this year to update. if you point how we saw this guide. the advantage of seawater at 97% and seawater contains a massive number of import minerals needed in the human diet, we just about depleted out of the farmland and seawater contains 80% of nutrients required for agriculture that is in proximity to a large number of dry desert areas. 44% is wasteland. it has a lot of sunlight and surprisingly enough it has a lot of ground water. you don't have to pump ocean water. you can also pump groundwater. there's an aquifer in the eastern sahara, which is h

, like he was helping to dig canals and irrigation ditches throughout the country. and that night he went out with his taliban comrades and blew them up. it's the great cycle of life. one business begets the other. so he asked me, what do americans think of us? what do they think of the taliban? why do they think we are at war with them? they think that women are not wearing burgers. they think you do't like pornography. they think you don't like their liberal lifestyle to he just started laughing and laughing and laughing. he said, look at vietnam. he said you killed 2 million vietnamese people, but today you can go to vietnam as an american and be a tourist, stay on the beach, eat great food at the tree cuba. everything i is fine. no energy and, in fact, vietnam is a major trading partner of the tiny. he said, it will be just like that here. at first we will kill you, and after we kill you, we will welcome you back as honored guests. >> excellent but another question. does anyone else have another question? >> a question for both of you. about sort of a broad ques

they built the stone west of helmand that brought -- zone west of helmand that brought irrigation tosert. that turned into poppy cultivation. a bash and of the taliban, by the mid to thousands. the marines air assaulted in. there was a very televised battle. they threw the taliban out. for a few years, the area was poppy-free. since then, as the marines have left in the afghan government has become very distracted by the elections farmers had taken to poppy cultivation again. it was a general trend that was small gains had been made were being reversed. they had largely been driven by short-term incentives. i went to marja and hung out with these farmers and saw the opium harvest and it was really remarkable because i was sitting in living rooms with this kind of brings out of basketball sized lump of opium. i asked him how much was thinking he would sell this for. he said, he hoped to sell it for $600. i said, to you know how much this would be worth on the streets of europe? he said he didn't. i did a quick calculation and it worked out to over $100,000 if it was converted into her

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what little water they need is supplied by an irrigation water. >> we have a purple pipe system, if youl, which is reclaimed water. we are getting a use out of it. >> we have 40 gig of power, compared to 10, which is mandate to the nf l. >> alis the coo of the 49ers. >> you have a wi-fi box under every 100 seats. >> when you have 68,000 people accessing their phones at once, you don't want to drop the ball. >> we delivered a technology na delivers every replay to their phone. you can watch it from four different camera angles. >> niners upper and lower. let them know that it works. >> these are the niners, and they are the geek squad. >> we have 90 niners on site, walking around in bow ties and help you with their application. they are stadium tech support. we'll deliver an experience through the mobile that no other team can. >> screens, lights and wi-fi hot spots require electricity - a lot. sports stadiums spend $2 million annually on energy. take the home of the dallas cowboys. the airconditioned 80,000 seat stadium uses 10 megawatts of energy. it's equivalent to keeping 7,500 u.s.

we've got about a little gem, 240 acres south of here obviously and outside and it's really only 90 irrigated. nd about 150 wild which is an important part of it too. working at we have a and and a learning center we are building soil and we are we are grass and in ting an island of health tocks sins. we're doing isgs trying to listen to the animals to the microkroebs to the plants and opening up oregon of as an an eption and create environment or an arena for them do best.t they need to so, let's run this video it's only a minute. nozzlehead by the way. i'm spraying. if you drive by our place, we're spraying. we're spraying this stuff. compost and this is at 1800 magnification. the are the farmers, cultivator cultivators. these are what we need to protect. i don't have the long scientific names for these things like she i'll find out what they are and i'll make t-shirts for them and they're going to become whale or anda and to fall inse we need love with. there is life waiting for us to encourage to do the right thing again in a small cale local system of production, distribution and feed th

we need this water to irrigate 40 acres. 20 acres of baby trees. >> all this here?" >> all this here and 20 acres of mature trees over there. >> and is that enough?" >> no. it'll maybe keep em alive. >> because canals and rivers have dried up, there's only one solution for desperate farmers. in the golden state, people are drilling deep into the ground for liquid gold, not oil but water. for weeks, dennis rhodes has not been taking any new orders to drill wells. he already has a two-year waiting list. the groundwater is being tapped deeper and deeper. the level continues to sink. more and more wells are drying up. >> it's probably been the worst on the private households because a lot of people cannot afford to drill deeper wells. there's basically too many straws in the ground and everybody's racing to get deeper so they can keep their crops growing and make some type of profit off of their farming operation. >> the authorities do deliver water to some affected but without the help of volunteers like donna johnson, it would be far too little for many families. some