it is renata decosta. good afternoon. >> today i want to focus on water. i know that you have a long agenda and you are going to be speaking on various aspects of water. what i want to speak about is how many miles of sewer pipes we have. how many miles of clean drinking water we have. and if we can monitor to see how much of that water is leaking. so, if in our slogans we say that water is precious and we care for our water, we have brought this to our attention before. in real terms, when we see what is happening with your infrastructure, nothing much is done. you are very fortunate to have on the commission a few people who have a good history about the water departments and the san francisco public utilities commission, which was formed in 1996. not long ago. having formed in 1996, only a few of the commissioners and only a few of our department heads can go to the times when the water department was there to make a comparison when it comes to standards. what i'm seeing now, from my contacts at the various departments is that the institutional experien