mr. ritchie is suggesting a and lex >> i guess from our standpoint within partnering with the interruptible rate customers and they've been performing well during some of the challenges they have i think one of the things were looking at was achieving the 25, but hiring the penalty if they don't meet it. so, that was something that was a first step then, as we start really honing in on interruptible rates we didn't really think about it when we initiated interruptible means relief to shut off someone's water will be the first one to shut it off. so, now as we progress a request for reductions, were trying to find tune it. were sort of suggesting that 25 is probably good enough that the higher the penalty. i do understand that you want more conservation from those accounts. so, it can go in either way. i think were recommending higher penalties, if they fail to meet the 25%. >> the objective that i have is not to make money to save water. if people have been getting a rate benefits on the expectation that it august curtailed. we need to have a stronger cutback provision than is for people we

mr. steve ritchie. so it's a pretty impressive meeting we had an opportunity to share with them our thoughts about how things were going with it out. i message that they to him was consistent in line with what i've told this commission back in may on a long piece points. this region, the region that your service area is, as you saw with steve, has some of the lowest per capita in the state. very proud of that, but also means we know we have more to do. in fact, if you look at april 2015 numbers, residential use was 59 gallons per capita per day across 2.3 million residential customers. that's a phenomenal number when you think about it. it was the lowest that month. our agencies and bawsca are aggressively implementing water conservation insert service area to exceed the state calls. all were not us water supplier, racking like we are in hand-in-hand with her agencies on this. we have partnered with them to implement and expand programs in their service areas, step up and provide services that we can do

mr. david cameron takes questions. -- british prime minister ♪ this week on q and a our guests are historians don ritchie and ray smockthey talk about the history of the house and senate, focusing on leaders, characters legislation, and scandals. brian: don ritchie, you spent 40 years as historian in the united states senate. what was the toughest part of the job? donald: finding out what had just happened so that we could answer the question. reporters would catch

mr. david cameron takes questions. -- british prime minister ♪ this week on q and a our guests are historians don ritchie and ray smockthey talk about the history of the house and senate, focusing on leaders, characters legislation, and scandals. brian: don ritchie, you spent 40 years as historian in the united states senate. what was the toughest part of the job? donald: finding out what had just happened so that we could answer the question. reporters would catch us out of breath and want an answer about something historical. it clearly had something to do with something that had just happened in the senate. we had no idea what that was. we had to tell them to calm down, tell us what happened, and try to provide historical context. brian: really i think you spent about 12 years in the house. what about your answer to that question? -- ray, i think you spent about 12 years in the house. raymond: i had to create the office. luckily, i had the senate historical office for a couple years. don ritchie and take bigger -- dick baker were greatly models and give me a lot of help. brian: i have a lot of video clips from diff