. >> peter dreckmeier, t 4r0uolo river trust. this will remain flat in ten years. now the number that's been bandied out a lot is 265 m.g.d. by 2040. that's a 27% increase on what it is today, 192. if you assume it's going to be half in the next five years, that's 13.5%. but this report says on average it's probably going to remain flat. so that's a pretty big discrepancy, and i hope you'll ask some questions on that. if this plan is adopted, you'll go on record saying essentially, we don't expect demand to increase in the next ten years, and yi would hope t hear that reflected in the next few years because demand has a huge impact on water supply. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? >> let me just ask, would y mr, would you like to address the discrepancies? >> steve ritchie. so the p.u.c. generally works with two sets of projections. one developed for development purposes, and one is developed for water supply purposes, and they are different for their purposes in that on the financial side, it pays to underestimate to make sure that

. >> peter dreckmeier, t 4r0uolo river trust. this will remain flat in ten years. now the number that's been bandied out a lot is 265 m.g.d. by 2040. that's a 27% increase on what it is today, 192. if you assume it's going to be half in the next five years, that's 13.5%. but this report says on average it's probably going to remain flat. so that's a pretty big discrepancy, and i hope you'll ask some questions on that. if this plan is adopted, you'll go on record saying essentially, we don't expect demand to increase in the next ten years, and yi would hope t hear that reflected in the next few years because demand has a huge impact on water supply. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? >> let me just ask, would y mr, would you like to address the discrepancies? >> steve ritchie. so the p.u.c. generally works with two sets of projections. one developed for development purposes, and one is developed for water supply purposes, and they are different for their purposes in that on the financial side, it pays to underestimate to make sure that

. >> peter dreckmeier, t 4r0uolo river trust. this will remain flat in ten years. now the number that's been bandied out a lot is 265 m.g.d. by 2040. that's a 27% increase on what it is today, 192. if you assume it's going to be half in the next five years, that's 13.5%. but this report says on average it's probably going to remain flat. so that's a pretty big discrepancy, and i hope you'll ask some questions on that. if this plan is adopted, you'll go on record saying essentially, we don't expect demand to increase in the next ten years, and yi would hope t hear that reflected in the next few years because demand has a huge impact on water supply. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? >> let me just ask, would y mr, would you like to address the discrepancies? >> steve ritchie. so the p.u.c. generally works with two sets of projections. one developed for development purposes, and one is developed for water supply purposes, and they are different for their purposes in that on the financial side, it pays to underestimate to make sure that