turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what we've done here is use artificial turf. you're never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30% of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. we're using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. i think it's a pretty amazing example as to how a town can really turn on a dime if there's the political will and if the public gets behind it. narrator: even the casinos and resorts have adapted to efficient water use. mulroy: the las vegas strip uses only 3% of all the water that we deliver. and when you think about it, it's the largest economic driver in the state, the largest employer, bar none. they knew they had to go the extra mile. and they've embraced conservation. and it's almost beyond belief that they're right now in the process of building another 15,000 rooms. southern nevada recycles 100% of its waste

and i have a significant drip irrigation system.ll along the system the each but about 1 gal. per hour. to let it run for 30 minutes. >> if somebody is out with we've been in disturbing the root system get disrupted. however, what i prefer is a drip system with a wider distribution. if you turn this on. what this is is a traditional lawn sprinkler it it looks like a traditional lawn sprinkler. this covers a large area. it is putting out gallons per minute as opposed to gallons per hour. and the discovery of a larger. i am in short that all the routes are getting water. and i am- insured that all of the tree roots and plant roots are getting what you'rwater--and container gardening? >> speaking of container gardening. not gallons but we are looking at consistency with volume and water for the container to fill it up. just like with a regular garden hose. this can be filled to the top and just move on to put the problem with a drip irrigation is that you have to adjust the emitters for the containers each are going to have to be adjus

they cool at night, pull moisture from the air and use it to irrigate young plants. it's the same process you see here when cold liquid in a glass condenses water from the atmosphere. the results have been surprisingly good. >> all this, the trunk, you can't see in here was last year's growth. the green leaves are this year's growth. the things are popping. >> the water boxes or not expensive, just $25 each. twenty-five dollars to irrigate this vine to maturity. but there's another advantage. they make the vines work for a living. >> work to go get the water, work to get the nutrients, and it's got to work to produce fruit. when we have a vine that has to work to produce fruit, what we get is a more complex and complicated flavored wine. >> back then he told us he can grow crops in the sahara desert even. >> actually what people forget is all the water we see travels through the air. >> as part of the experiment he took acorns from the old oak trees and used water boxes to grow new ones. they are working too. >> in an area where we don't have water, we are trying to

they cool at night, pull moisture from the air and use it to irrigate young plants.s the same process you see here when cold liquid in a glass condenses water from the atmosphere. the results have been surprisingly good. >> all this, the trunk, you can't see in here was last year's growth. the green leaves are this year's growth. the things are popping. >> the water boxes or not expensive, just $25 each. twenty-five dollars to irrigate this vine to maturity. but there's another advantage. they make the vines work for a living. >> work to go get the water, work to get the nutrients, and it's got to work to produce fruit. when we have a vine that has to work to produce fruit, what we get is a more complex and complicated flavored wine. this is the brainchild of petr hof, a dutch man who visited the napa valley last year. >> back then he told us he can grow crops in the sahara desert even. >> actually what people forget is all the water we see travels through the air. >> as part of the experiment he took acorns from the old oak trees and used water boxes to grow new one

gallons come here on a daily basis, producing recycled water, and that can be reused for landscape irrigation and indoor toilet flushing. the pumps can only handle so much water, which is generally when it's not rain, the dry-weather runoff, so if you get a storm of a decent size, the pumps will shut down automatically and the water will just continue to flow out into the ocean and it carries a lot of bacteria and people can get sick when they're swimming in the water near a flowing storm drain. everyone knows you don't go in the water for 72 hours after it rains. you just don't. this is the dirtiest beach in southern california. doheny beach. i've surfed this twice -- i've gotten sick both times. narrator: san juan creek, a concrete flood control channel, flows directly to doheny beach. moriarty: the concrete you can almost think of as a big water slide for pollutants to go to sea level. man: if it rains more than 2/10 of an inch, the county puts out a health advisory for all beaches in the county. that totaled 75 days in 2006. so it's sort of a frightening thing that it's so polluted that e

in fact, what has been irrigating their crops has been the three gorges dam releasing water.r as the rainfall we should and are supposed to get into a wetter pattern here as we get into june. but i don't see anything significant as far as rainfall over the next several days. the last one that hit really japan is where it left the water but bypassing china. let's fly you in and check in on the yellow river. it's the yangtze what we've been seeing problems with. the population dense as we take you into shanghai. we're talking now about over 6 million hectares of farmland that have been impacted as a result of the drought. some provinces, about five of them, it is severe. take a look at some of the scenes that have been ongoing there. they have been sending folks out, in fact, about 9,600 have been sent out to essentially pump the water that they can into the farmland there. and the three gorges dam has been releasing water. that has created a deficit on the other side. but it has raised the water levels downstream. do we have the video? the pictures? yes? there we go. let's tak

we have a design manual for outdoor irrigation only. i am happy to share it up with you. >> indoor use is a much more involved process? >> yes. let's not in progress currently. >> thank you. >> other public comments on the general managers' report? sorry, on the communications? now we are moving to the quarterly financial report. >> good afternoon. i have four on each item with much of what you already heard. i would like to echo that with the update. slide number two in your packet , hold up on the screen, water use and sales continued to be lower than what was assumed in the budget with the retail sale use showing a slight uptick for additional volume. we have seen traffic surging between 4% and 5% at the airport. meaning more water usage and flushing of toilet. looking at the wholesale side of the business, we continue to see lower demands and deliveries. april, down 4.7%. continuing to meet $4.5 billion in budget and of wholesale revenue. overall waste water sources are under budget in both cases. savings offset the weakness in wate

government does not allow americans to question the survivors, the there could be a return to a harsh irrigation -- interrogation technique such as water boarding. >> i would strongly recommend that we continue it. >> the u.s. government released videotapes seized from the compound osama bin laden was a living. he was watching videos of himself, appearing as an old man in a stocking cap, wrapped in a blanket. unlike a staged and video, where his beard is dyed black, here it is great. -- gray. >> it looked like he had been in a maximum-security place for five years. >> the youngest winner in of osama bin laden told pakistani authorities they moved to the town 2003, 1.5 hours away from the capital. others say there is no way the six-foot foreigner would have gone unnoticed. >> it does not prove anything. it does not prove that he is still in charge. >> the white house is demanding pakistani authorities hand over any materials seized from his compound. $50 million, that is how much he was worth to the u.s. now that he is dead, what happens to the potty? bounty.., -- the the bount two u.s. congressm

do we have to go with a reverse osmosis or is there a way to use lesser treated water for irrigation. my sense is that rec and parks did that, and we may have to go to them. this becomes much more financially viable base and also could be addressed. our organization, we do not have many concerns about the golden gate park area, but there are many groups that do, and it has taken longer to find an alternative, but on the whole, i think the plan looks good. >> good afternoon. my name is joan. girardo, we hope to get some comments in by friday, but we have some concerns based on the demand, and it seems to be changing almost monthly. table three says we're going to have over 900,000 people. that is 79,000 people more than we say now. and yet, in this scenario, if it comes true, they are projecting an increase of over 90,000 households during that time period. at 2.4 persons per household, according to the documentation of the average citywide, we agree to have an increase of over 200,000 people so those projections are out of whack, and if we are using 50 gallons per person per day, we w

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we hope to be complete and have a great ribbon cutting in june with new irrigation, pathways, improved accessibility, better landscaping and better drainage. ernestine, i hope we can to prove some of your concerns wrong and you come to the ribbon-cutting in june. >> don't tell me that -- >> thank you, ernestine. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. as is our practice at the board of supervisors, we'll provide everyone 90 seconds for the question, then as much time for the translation. are you prepared to translate? >> the first issue ms. lee is that, first of all, she's an advocate for the community for many years. first problem is regarding of the layoff in the housing authority. a lot of the workers in the housing authority, for example, the plumber, janitor, has been laid off. due to that, there's a lot of services that have been cut in the public housing. there's, for example, when there's leak, the residents have to wait so long to get this problem fixed. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you, mrs. lee. good to see yo

an urban farm in washington, the prince exchanged irrigation ditch with low-income families growing theirwn produce. back at georgetown, he touted the university chefs. he may lack the star power william and kate, but the sincerity of his message is respected. >> i watched his speech on the web cast. the content was interesting and it was an interesting way to look at globalization. >> he is doing wonderful things as far as the sustainability of food in your country. i am glad he is bringing all those wonderful ideas to our united states of america. >> and so the prince of wales has made friends year. his stable and at the white house. -- make friends here. his day will end at the white house. >> continuing fallout from the death of osama bin laden. tomorrow, president obama will be in new york visiting ground zero and meeting family members as the city absorbs the death of the al qaeda leader who plotted the attacks. we went to christian and moslem leaders to get their reactions. on the upper east side, the city's largest mosque. >> i hope that the suspicion that had been addressed in th

>> it came from revenue from power sales to the irrigation district and a variety of other customers we have on the power site. >> the people in the best of pay for this? -- modesto paid for this? >> out of the entire budget, you could pick a line item that paid for it. >> i am not sure the right person is to answer this question. maybe miss hale. commissioner torres was just speaking about the participation rates. what would be the participation rate in a 100% clean program -- green program? i would assume if 100% of the people wanted to sign up, we would not be able to provide power at 100% agreement -- green. i am hoping there is room to grow in that. i am wondering what the target is. >> we are preparing to target at launch 75,000 account holders. the survey information and the slide i set up earlier is indicative. it is not definitive. the question of a program that is 100% renewable and greenhouse gas free as an opt out program was not opposed. the questions posed in the survey was for an opt -- the opportunity to opt out of a program at 40% renewable and 100% clean house free.

basically, it is something that worked well with the courtyard and a landscaping and the irrigation outside. in one month, the crane that is going up will be part of the foundation. >> bolted to it? >> exactly. >> the other kind of crane, which worked their way up as the building that's taller and lift themselves up and slide and. >> those are climbers. >> the climbing crane. it was a climbing crane that collapsed in 1990. >> we do not like climbing cranes. >> they are safe if they are done correctly. no margin. not much margin. >> how you get one of those set up if it is not a climbing grain and there is a fixed piece underneath? how does that it set up? >> the crane is brought in it in sections. as the foundation is poured in, the, up with a mobile crane unit, put out the section, then they build the jib on the ground. >> what list it up? >> 225-ton portable crane. >> they bring out another crane to set up the cream? >> exactly. >> this particular crane is brand new and it automatically shuts down at 35 mob. hour wind. -- at 35 miles per hour wind. >> i got a call a while back from some n

we've reduced that to just under 2 million gallons per day by eliminating water irrigation. i will talk about the recycled water plants in a minute. we have used water conservation methods and utility fixture units and things. that has reduced 3.6 million gallons a day. we dropped it by another 2.2 million gallons a day for all non possible water uses, a toilet flushing -- non-potable water uses, toilet flushing, and so on. president vietor: i sound like a broken record. what about collection facilities for each unit? do they collect the water and treated so we can be even more aggressive? >> we are being as aggressive as we can on water use based on recycled water. we are using everything we can that is not potable. this is something to be explored in the commercial area with commercial buildings. we are not promoting the collection of rain water. president vietor: wouldn't that be to our advantage? the -- minimally, probably. >> it cannot change the size of the waste water treatment. -- it can change the size of the waste water treatment. >> that would not change the waste

building materials, dwreen roofs for the people and missing suspiciousies habitats, irgration -- irrigation, storm water capture, etc., will enhance san francisco's climate commitment while healing our community. while i'm not a structural engineer i cannot help but mention the seismic improvements especially in light of the recent events -- president olague: thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is bob kaplan. i'm a neighbor of the site of the proposed new cpmc inpatient facility and accompanying medical building. my company and i made a strategic decision to invest in the neighborhood because of its design amick nature. i've watched the van ness corridor as building after building has closed their doors. we've seen the closing of california pizza kitchen, mercedes-benz, the market site on franklin has been closed since 2006, circuit city's space remains vacant and there has been an unsuccessful effort to attract a grocery store to the area for four years. these projects have components that go -- would have served the entire community. the stalled galaxy communi