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if it's at 10 feet would you send the canals for irrigation? yes. nine feet, the answer was yes. if the lake was at eight feet, the dangerously low level was, yes, they would still get their water for those purposes. so is it right you keep the water at this higher level -- when you're still going to send the water to these other areas for their purposes, even if the water is down as low as eight feet on lake okeechobee? mr. alexander: sir, i have not been privy to any of those conversations that you have had. what i will say is that i know that our jacksonville district is engaged with the communities. is very engaged with you. i am not an expert on lake okeechobee and the releases but what i will offer is an engagement of you, colonel jason kirk, the district commander, and anybody else from his staff or here at headquarters who could walk you through in detail how we manage the lake and what the risks are at the various levels. mr. mast: thank you for your answers. thank you, mr. chair. i do request a second round of questioning. mr. barletta: thank you. the chair recognizes m

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here for irrigation, when irrigation is need. it is basically plants that only in rare occasions need irrigation. the seed is something that you find in north texas as well. groundwater is released very slowly, through strata of the geology. so, for a short while after every rain, a little bit of water is released. not most of it, because we save it for irrigation, but a little bit is released. and then you have -- it is the only time on this side of the garden that there is only expression of water, which is when stored rainwater is released back into the natural landscape. you get this great little ecology over there, we planted some cottonwoods, and other native street -- native trees. we have made in hereford, and some plants that only live in texas, in very moist, shady places. it is a favorite. >> -- disappointed. i say the only disappointment was, not surprisingly, some pieces were happier being planted here than others. it took a little longer for some to fill in and be kind of fulfilling. i do not know if that is fair to

i'm the project manager for the plaza park northside irrigation project. can you hear me ok?gent before you today is discussion and possible action to amend the construction contract with the alto plaza northside irrigation and drainage project. to increase the improved contract limit from 2 million to an amount not to exceed 2,000,500. an increase of 363,500. it is greater than the ten% -- greater than ten% over the original approved contract amount. under the strategic plan, the project speaks to strengthen the quality of existing parks and facilities and increase public investment to better align with infrastructure needs and service expectations. the plaza park is in the pacific heights neighbourhood and encompasses far from city blocks. founded by clay, jackson, and scott and signer streets, is situated on a high point with the use of san francisco bay to the north and the city to the south. the park includes a children playground, a basketball court, tennis court and dog play area. the park is undertaking the replacement improvement of irrigation and drainage of the nor

on the west side of san francisco, we're making progress in irrigating our parks and golf courses, such as sharp park, actually in pacifica in partnership with the north coast county water district. we are delivering recycled water to the sharp park golf course, which is owned by the city of san francisco and hence is a customer of ours. we are in partner with daly citys to serve hardy's and fleming golf courses with recycled water since 2012. we are in position for the reconstruction of the oceanside plant. potential future use at other locations with heiigh demands such as the san francisco zoo. since 2015, the nonpotable water ordinance requires new development projects of 250,000 gross square feet or greater to meet their own nonpotable demands for toilet flushing and irrigation on-site, and that's applicable citywide, but it really focuses on the east side. so we're really looking at kind of a two prong approach for meeting san francisco's nonpotable demands. the west side would have a centralized facility to delivery cycled water to large irrigation areas, and on the east side, we

was killed after getting sucked into an irrigation pipe.y attorney says carlos was untangling a ski line when he was sucked under. investigators say the pipe was used to pump water to crops. the tovar's can't understand why there's no protection around the those pipes. ( darya ) with thousands more expected on the waterway this week -- deputies say boaters need to be aware of all the underlying dangers ... including those pipes. ( james ) another big story we are filing... the u-s tariffs on 34 billion dollars worth of chinese imports is set to go into effect at midnight tonight. china has said it retaliate as soon as those tariffs are implimented. those chinese tariffs will target american made cars... meat and agriculture. president trump has thre

. >> reporter: carlos tovar was untangling a ski line when he was sucked under by an irrigation line in the delta. his wife and friends tried to pull him back on board. >> unfortunately, there was no amount of human power that could have overcome the force coming from that pipe. >> reporter: these irrigation pipes are scattered throughout channels in the delta near agricultural land. they pump water out of the delta to crops. >> those pumps have a tremendous amount of force and thresucking in thousands of gallons of water and pumping it out into other areas. >> reporter: some of our waterways are use for recreation and for agriculture and in those areas, there are pumping stations. those are areas the public should not go into. but they have access by certain waterways. >> you can see it's an oddball manmade shape going up at an angle up on the bank so now that's a pipe. it doesn't matter whether that pipe is pushing or pulling water, it's a danger to you either way. >> i think that everybody anticipates it's safe out there. >> reporter: carlos and his family weren't off the beaten t

was killed after getting sucked into an irrigation pipe.s sucked under. investigators say the pipe was used to pump water to crops. the tovar's can't understand why there's no protection around the those pipes. ( james ) with thousands more expected on the waterway this week -- deputies say boaters need to be aware of all the underlying dangers ... including those pipes. ( darya ) in the east bay.... animal activists crashed a free block party in oakland as people were celebrating the fourth of july. about 60 protesters showed up woth fake butcher knives and fake blood spattered on their shirts... they call bar-b-qing 'violence against animals.' but that didn't stop the thousands of people who came out to enjoy the festivites. local merchants took a

a substantial number of those were these, irrigation and water districts. many were in the rural parts of my county but a lot of them, you'd be surprised, were in suburban and even in downtown phoenix. and i have actually had a conversation with a couple of them of one saying if they had an excess water allocation that year could they sell it to the local pond, the little onservation reserve in our riverbed and those things. and if they did so, if that amount of money exceeded 15% of their revenues, would they blow up their tax status? and in this case, this legislation would prevent that but they still have to use that money to constantly improve their infrastructure, therefore i believe being more water economical. so this this is a good thing for our communities, particularly rural, particularly the uniqueness of those of us in the desert southwest and with that, i will urge my colleagues to vote yes and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 51

. >> reporter: carlos tovar was untangling a ski line when he was sucked under by an irrigation line in the delta. his wife and friends tried to pull him back on board. >> unfortunately there was no amount of human power that could have overcome the force coming from that pipe. >> reporter: these irrigation pipes are scattered throughout channels in the delta near agricultural land. they pump water out of the delta to crops. >> they have a tremendous amount of force and energy. they're sucking in thousands of gallons of water and pump it out. >> reporter: some -- puming it out. -- pumping it out. >> reporter: in those areas there are pumping stations. those are areas the public shouldn't necessarily go into, but they have access by certain waterways. >> you can see it's an odd ball manmade shape. you know that's a pipe. it doesn't matter whether it's pushing water out or pulling in, it's a danger. >> i think that everybody anticipates it's safe out there. >> reporter: in carlos' case, he and his family weren't off the beaten track. they were in a popular boating area where skiers go.

they are all seen used to be the fourth largest lake in the world until water was diverted for irrigation now it's almost completely dried up in africa over grazing in the sun hell has destroyed much of the soil the region subsistence farmers are struggling to survive. with. more than a fertile land surface is desert and many deserts continue to grow. ever more forests are being cleared every three seconds one hundred trees lost that's the rate at which deforestation has been going on in the amazon for the past forty years yes that's right one hundred trees felled or burned every three seconds. like here in the brazilian state of around donia rain forest is cleared to make way for sowing fields cattle farms dams and reservoirs. the destruction of rain forests means even more c o two is released into the atmosphere and the earth gets ever warmer. and now we're going to meet professor. the director general and c.e.o. off the nigerian meteorological agency for years he has been collecting and interpreting data about changing weather patterns in nigeria the country is currently struggling wit

if it was at ten feet, would you still send the water to the canals for agricultural irrigation? the answer is yes. if it was at nine feet, the answer is yes. if the lake was at 8 feet, a dangerously low level, the answer was yes, they would still get the water for those uses. so is it right that you keep the water at this higher level when my community is destroyed because this water is at that higher level when you are still going to send the water to these other areas for purposes even if the water is down as low as eight feet on lake okachobee? >> sir, i've not been privy to any of those conversations that you have had. what i will say is that i know that our jacksonville district is engaged with the community, very engaged with you. i am not an expert on lake okachobee and the releases. but what i will offer is an engagement of you, the district chippedder and anybody from his staff or here at headquarters who can walk you through in detail how we manage the lake and what the risks are at various levels. >> thank you for the answers to your question. i yield back and i do re

not for agricultural irrigation. not for agreements with the tribes around the lake. what level do you need the lake at so there's no risk of dike failure with the herbert hoover dike? >> as i said, we attempt to reach a level no less than 12 1/2 feet. >> now getting into those other concerns i know i sent you the questions in advance so i'd have the answers given to me. how much water do you keep on the lake for other concerns? how much water is kept on lake okeechobee is kept there for the tribes? >> the lake is not managed like a flood controlled reservoir. the herbert hoover dike contains a prior free flowing lake. the inches of water is not manageable. >> the lake and the corps of engineers keeps track of all the water. earlier in the season the municipalities were requesting 1,000 cubic feet hoping to get the water off the lake because they needed that for the ecology of their waterway. they were denied. the corp of engineers has a call every single week where they pay attention to the amount of inches or quarter inches of level of change on lake okeechobee so i

farmers with vegetable crops like potatoes and onions, they will irrigate.gate in the summer, they are starting to run dry. the good news was that we had a wet spring and a wet winter, which topped reservoirs up. we're not saying it's like 1975, 1976 where we had continuous dry weather as this is on the back of a wet period. but given the intensity of the drought and heat, those reservoirs are starting to look worryingly depleted. when they run dry, it's the real problem. clearly this is very worrying for farmers. what could the impact on food prices be? i think it's too early to tell and talking to farmers, i think farmers are relieved that the harvest isn't as bad as they were fearing, giving the extremity of the weather. so we are not at a sort of crisis point but if this weather pattern continues for another four, five, six weeks, we will see an impact on vegetable production and some of the later crops will be diminished. we are looking at a smaller harvest and there will be increasing problems for livestock farmers as they run out of grass and winter f

even from the parking lot and repurposes it to irrigate our native texas park. efforts to develop parks in the hearts of the city like dallas are increasingly important as 80% of our nation's population now resides in urban areas. exposing more urban dwellers to the natural beauty we have a part to play in conversation. maintainingal to the integrity of our unique natural heritage. i like to look at the out the window and see visitors in the prairie park discovering joys of , nature here in the city. schoolchildren come on field trips and enjoy picnic lunches in the amphitheater. families come to walk their dogs. parents bring their children for the texas tradition for the photo shoot in the bluebonnets. smu students enjoy tossing a football on the lawn. but we know many americans aren't so fortunate and seldom experience nature in their daily lives. due to urbanization and our increasingly sedentary lifestyles. children today spend half as much time outdoors as children just 20 years ago yet they spend nearly eight hours a day looking at a screen. in fact, chil

will only go on for a few more days otherwise i'll have to take water tanks out to the field to irrigate it i've never done that before going to. the limited means crop is causing problems for the cattle breeder. he's already had to feed his livestock the harvest that was meant for the winter. we don't have the money to buy additional field and we don't have the capacity to transport it so the only remaining option for us is to cut the number of livestock and only have as many animals as we can reasonably look after in concrete terms that means we've started to reduce our bull herd to zero on some one hundred fifty fattening bulls are being called vaca says if the drought continues cows and calves will have to follow. my here's a story about what can happen when you're a victim of fake news and then just are a big deal in japan and for the city of god they're a big money spinner to tens of thousands of tourists flock to the city's ninja festival every year but then reports by an american radio station claimed that the city is looking for ninja paul foremost for a new museum and for a hug

used to be the fourth largest lake in the world until water was diverted for irrigation now it's almost completely dried up in africa over grazing in the sun hell has destroyed much of the saw oil the region subsistence farmers are struggling to survive. more than a furred of the earth's land surface is desert and many deserts continue to grow. ever more forests are being cleared every three seconds one hundred trees lost that's the rate at which deforestation has been going on in the amazon for the past forty years yes that's right one hundred trees felled or burned every three seconds . like here in the brazilian state of round donia rain forest is cleared to make way for soil fields cattle farms dams and reservoirs .

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that is how weird it cotton. -- that is how we irrigate cotton.it is how we irrigate whatever we grow. we would not be here without wind power. debbie: how many windmills are utilized here to help run lubbock? mayor pope: somewhere around 15% of our power is being generated. texas is a little below that as a state. there is a lot of wind energy being brought along. debbie: as we wrap up, but would you like folks to know about lubbock? ,ayor pope: it is a community our efforts to become more attractive to millennials are starting to pay off. our downtown, it is hard to see the progress but if you come back in five years, you will see a completely different downtown. pleasure to be here. debbie: thank you very much for your time, we appreciate it. announcer: our visit to lubbock, texas was a book tv exclusive. we wanted to introduce you to c-span cities tour's. for several years now, we have traveled to u.s. cities to bring them to our viewers. you can watch more at c-span.org/cities tour. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was

the first cubics belong to the irrigation districts, increasing to 4,000 cubic per second for spring runoff. above that, it belongs to the sfpuc. in a normal water year, the sfpuc is entitled to three times the water that is used. at full storage, we have enough water to last six years. even at theight of the recent drought, sfpuc had enough water in storage to last three years. the sfpuc had enough water and storage to last 4 1/2 years. 2017 was the second wettest year on record and the sfpuc had the right to capture enough water to last 12 years. they didn't have the ability to store all of that water, so they had to dump it. the water we conserve during the drought didn't benefit the environment was behind dams, only to be dumped in a single season. sfpuc staff have used scare tactics. they claim it could lead to the loss of up to 188,000 jobs and $49 billion. their projections are based on an extremely flawed socioeconomic study that has been debunked. water demand decreased by 30% between 2006 and 2016. had the sfpuc's projections been accurate, we should see the loss of 25,000

and the other was to do some work, irrigation work, to a field adjacent to the facility. if the contract had come in low enough, we would have added them to the contract scope. but it didn't, so we're leaving those out. those were excluded. >> commissioner mazzola: those were excluded, so it's still $14.7, not 896? >> correct. >> commissioner mcdonnell: i recall from previous renovation of a pool there was concern around lap swimmers in change of length. i don't recall right now -- what is the basis of their concern? >> right. historically -- i cannot say all the pools, but the majority of our pools were built in the '50s and they had 100-foot lap lanes. and lap swimmers like having the longer lanes. standard competition length is 75 feet. and so what we are -- what we've done is we've taken advantage of the fact that our pools were built longer than competition length and so we take the shallow end and use the bulkhead to create a dedicated lessons area and give the competition length on the lap side. the concern was among people that like to turn less and have a longer

the north valley regional recycle program which helps irrigate over 44,000 acres. local and recycled water. the an louis delta intertype project which brings up to -- san luis delta intertype project which brings up watttory most of our rural valley communities. to advance efforts that are so important that make a difference. in addition, that doesn't include the success of the w.i.n. act, bipartisan legislation which i helped lead through four years of tough negotiations. it became law in 2016. the w.i.n. act creates more flexibility to move water based on real time water realities and provide authorization for $563 million in federal funds for water projects like expanding the reservoir. ke raising the san luis res. wire. just this month legislation introduced allows local water districts to improve the efficiency of dams that passed the house. i call on the senate to move this bill to the president's desk. in the valley, this would allow the merced irrigation district to advance a project to raise a dam.way at new exchequer this would increase supply of water ov

and also we are doing irrigation systems there, too. chairman bost: it's good to hear. thank you. with that, i want to thank the witnesses again. i would recognize mr. lamb as the ranking member, if he wants to make any closing remarks? mr. lamb: no, thank you, mr. chairman, but thank you for recognizing me. chairman bost: i want to thank the witnesses again for being here today. as i said earlier, your statements for today will be entered into the hearing record. i want to close out by saying this, thank you so much, both of you, for what you are doing. and when you say that we need to make sure that our veterans are -- that their history is not forgotten -- when wee were at american planters field, watching and hearing their memorial day services, that they take students from right there, that come in and take the names of those veterans and study their history and, on memorial day, students, not from this nation, from that nation, because of the liberation that they received by our american -- they actually study those histories and give testimony about that individual that the

>> all of it we are looking at using irrigation and they'll be dual plumbing uses which would include toilets. we will use it for cooling water and some of the buildings. as i mentioned, those are some of the early uses we are looking at. we are happy to work with the developer and finding other options to use it. this will be titled 22 water which is very clean water. any opportunities we can find we are eager to produce as much as, you know, every drop going into that plant will be clean water. as much as we can you loose, we want to do it. >> perfect. i've seen some new developments in vancouver that have used the recycled water, greywater, actually. they use it in toilets. i think it went quite well in that situation. >> i don't know if we will get to that point in this project, because we will be repaired -- producing enough recyclable water. there may not be a need to capture greywater. i'm not going to rule that out. that might be something -- there are places in san francisco that capture rainwater and use it. everything is on the table that we are looking at. >> excellent. my

they are all seen used to be the fourth largest lake in the world until water was diverted for irrigation now it's almost completely dried up in africa over grazing in the sun hell has destroyed much of the saw oil the region subsistence farmers are struggling to survive. with. the earth's land surface is desert and many deserts continue to grow. ever more forests are being cleared every three seconds one hundred trees lost that's the rate at which deforestation has been going on in the amazon for the past forty years yes that's right one hundred trees fell every three seconds. like here in the brazilian state of rum donia rain forest is cleared to make way for sowing fields cattle farms dams and reservoirs. the destruction of rain forests means even more c o two is released into the atmosphere and the earth gets ever warmer. and now we're going to meet professor sonny. the director general and c.e.o. off the nigerian meteorological agency for years he has been collecting and interpreting data about changing weather patterns in nigeria the country is currently struggling with extreme weat

buffer zone and in terms of the damage it does to be environment in terms of all of trees uprooted irrigation systems because it's extreme much worse than the wall part here and in many cases the israelis have taken land that has been passed down through generations of palestinian families. spend all his life. but the arrival of the wall has brought disaster. relief. that both you look at the. moment is ahead it is about. the point is that the will of the children is at the whim of the. will from nasser was that the world will meet and with the destruction of the olive trees comes economic ruin as palestinians are left on able to work because they are forced to spend so long negotiating the divide. the bloody about. what i've been kidding with. bated. breath because. of being. in myself. with the look probably with the. blood but is it a little bit too. but it is an official's little. visit they wanted to have. this was that. it was it was. there's a particular. because of it but if you had to say to me you really mean is that. it is driving people to despair because the younger generation no

thanks to an irrigation system installed by the ngo this is their second harvest of the year. would. be if i turn it on here the water comes out that. the women for long and hard to tap into the system that supplies water to a nearby hospital. sit in a. vegetable garden has been designed to adapt to climate change but this year it hardly rained when it did it came late and didn't last long they couldn't plant in the grain and there were no peanuts either. without the vegetable garden people would be stuck at home with nothing to do and they'd go hungry and. since the vegetable garden was planted the women have been missing every morning and every evening. muscle says that strengthened their sense of community. but we're going home now. plus who has promised to help the women to get a well installed in the village. because i can bring people together and motivate them the women came together and asked me if i wanted to let them go. meanwhile some key is missing the man of the village they're learning how to prevent erosion. we're going to prune the trees now if we leave just on

this is my irrigation reservoir. many farmers in east anglia i like to accumulate surplus rainfall in the winter, so i can use it to irrigate my crops, thirsty crops like potatoes. the good news this year was that we had plenty of rain in the winter and the spring and it was nice and full. the bad news is that we've had no rain injune and july and the demand on the water from here for my crop has proven too much and now we are simply running out. for a thirsty crop like potatoes, when it doesn't get anything from the sky, it needs this artificial irrigation and i'm simply running out of water. guy took me for a drive in his truck to see how his crops are faring for myself. it looks like the savannah but actually it's the heath where we farm. and normally it's extremely productive farmland. but it does need a bit of moisture from above to keep it ticking over. and as we go round the corner, these are onions and again you can see how they are singed and stressed and that is heat that's caused that, more than lack of mo