mr. ritchie, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any only comment -- >> is it different? >> it's not much different than the prior contract we have to do a contract with the federal government because of the nature of the beast. the contract really is about you know, how we would potentially you know, cut off service if a problem occurs and how they would get water alternatively those are the primary issues but basically provides that they get water service they pay in effect the same rates city customers pay and subject to the reductions that we apply to our customers here. >> is the zone 7 part of it new? >> it's not part of the agreement but they do have the ability to provide water service to portions of lawrence livermore so we've worked at at times to get them to provide -- >> and there's some language for us looking for opportunities i don't know whether we would prebank water in zone 7 or -- >> that's something that we actually considered this year that there's a possibility that that we'd be in a position to get water to zone 7 in some way so that they could deli

mr. ritchie. >> >> excuse me, general manager for water again. if i can have the slides please and we can then go to the presentation. several of these charts are the same as we've seen before with updated numbers again hetch hetchy storage holding instead there and the water bank is increasing and that's due to snow melt running off so we're still in relatively good shape on storage compared to others but have a long way to go particularly in water bank storage our precipitation so far this year you can see up to close to medium early in the year decent december and you will see another slide later getting specific with what january was like in terms of precipitation and snow pack you can see it's reducing it's not a good sign. we still have time to rectify but it's still a cause for concern. on the deliveries front it's a new calendar year and started starting at the at the left-hand side of the page you will see the little green boxes in the lower left down there again the numbers are below the dashed black line representing an approximation o