mr. ritchie? >> thank you, commissioners, dick allen, lake merced and first i'm sorry that my colleagues couldn't be here today, because this is a great day. i mean lake merced is getting the recognition that it deserves. it is obviously central to key 3 water supply projects, just to quickly summarize, which we have all been working on together and i want to thank mr. ritchie for this presentation. thank you. but this does raise some questions that we can think about in future, because now that lake merced has come to central court, so to speak, we would like to know what is the storage capacity of the west side basin aquifer? as you know we're now referrings to the west side basin aquifer as north and south, north of lake merced and south of lake merced. so we don't know what the capacity of this aquifer is and it's been studied over and over and over again. you have spent millions of dollars studying this aquifer. what is the current water content of the west side basin aquifer, both north and

mr. ritchie. mr. decosta, you wanted to comment on item 7? >> commissioners, i wanted to comment on item 7 on the digester timeline, as well as what was spoken about lake merced. because of the time constraints, i am just going to be talking about the digester timeline. so on this website, where all the timelines will be posted we would like to know the benefits to the community when the oakdale was built and all the certifications that were available? like being a registered nurse, being a certified chef, and so on and so forth? if these were available at one time, what happened over the years? and what plans are sought by sfpuc to have some certified programs in the future? no. 2, a lot has been spoken in a very superficial manner, we would like to know really state of the affairs of the outfalls, the old ones and the new ones. we have an outfall that goes stark center of pier 1, where the watershed is. the guy doesn't know, but the force main is under his building and we want to know the state of that force main. some years ago, some stupi

mr. ritchie? >> thank you, commissioners, dick allen, lake merced and first i'm sorry that my colleagues couldn't be here today, because

mr. ritchie mentioned the use for this year is 224 mgd and wouldn't it be great if we could keep it at that level? but you are facing reality and it's a population growth. the bay area is required to create more jobs and more housing and just something to think about, the global population, expected to reach 9 billion. >> we have until that year to leave the planet. >> increasing to 9 billion and so i would love to see some leadership talking about population and the demand side. >> we won't include the vatican in that discussion. [ laughter ] >> let me take it in a slightly different direction. and thank you for your comments; which makes we want to say that we think about san francisco's water demand as kind of capped over time. at least that is an allusion we have worked under and fact that infill is important and everything that we do in san francisco for development is basically infill that generated additional water demand and we'll deal with some of that, i guess at our next meeting. so i don't think we have complacent on that front. i want to make a request of staff and that is that

mr. ritchie, you will start? >> yes. steve ritchie earnings assistant general manager for water and bawsca on water supply on our system and if we could have the slides up, please? there we go. okay. first i want to review our water supply levels of service. these are obligations to our customers. on the goals and objectives front it's meet customer and water needs in non-drought and drought periods and there are various parts of that. meeting average demand of 265 million gallons per day from the sfpuc watersheds from non-drought water years and the second is meet delivery needs while limiting rationing to maximum of 20%, which translated to a significant number and most of the burden for that shortage under our current arrangement falls to the wholesale customers and that is a significant figure that we need to make sure our eyes are wide open on. the goals and objectives, diversify our water supply options and improve use of new water sources. the second piece was some of the specific details in the wsip approval in 2

mr. ritchie, if you can get me those answers later, that would be great. welcome. >> >> good afternoon. art jensen with [pwa-ufrpbgs/]. >> and here we thought you were retiring. >> pardon me? >> and we thought you were retiring. >> not yet. >> good. what do you mean "good? [ laughter ] >> okay. sorry, i couldn't resist that. >> for the sake of the decisions that our bode will are have to make we're adding the word "with certainty." businessstitions or policy decisions that the board is going to be forced to make investments of public money and they want to make those decisions with some certainty and that doesn't mean all certainty and doesn't mean we'll be able to predict hide rawling, but it means what you or anyone else would reasonably thin as i said to our board policy commit, i never got to quote linc, but the one i like, the best way to predict your future is to create it and we're in the process of create our future. second, it's certainly one of the least expensive supplies available to us, but no [s-erbt/] it will be there. in 2008 when the planning commission certified the pe

mr. decosta. those are the ones we have to follow. >> steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water. if we could bring the slide show, please? regard ing mr. allen's questions, this is one of those items, commissioner vietor asked about the lake merced and the water project and the water quality and how they tie together? so what i will do today is talk about the local projects in the vicinity of lake merced have effects on lake merced and how it all ties together. first, about the water supply projects. we committed back in 2008, in the adoption of the wsip to levels in surface that limited delivery to the watershed and commitment to diversity our current portfolio. in addition, we also had a systemwide shortage target of not more than 20%, our goal there. so we had to do things in times of drought as well to protect our service area. in looking at how things fit together at lake merced, there are a number of projects that actually affect the lake both its level and its water quality. there depicted in this very simple diagram, starting from the right to the left, there is the west s

mr. lionel ritchie was scheduled to be outside performing for a big crowd this morning. so guess what, we brought him inside and will get a much more intimate concert from lionel in a while. good to have you here. >> we love you! >> first overnight, the director of national intelligence weighed in on the government's secret surveillance program in order to quiet some of the uproar. and there's been a lot of it. >> these revelations are getting a lot of attention. we are learning this goes well beyond verizon customers and phone data. it includes surveillance of the internet targeting foreign terrorists as well. >> peter alexander has more on the story. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. these were some of the most sensitive secrets in data collection. this morning, we are learning details about a program that allowed analysts to activity monitor the internet in realtime, searching for potentially suspicious e-mails, photos and documents. sources familiar with the programs confirm to nbc news the national security agency and the fbi are tapping directl