steve richie, assistant general manager for water, the san francisco public utilities commission. if i could have the slides please. i'm going to review the legal requirements we need to follow for water supply planning in our actual practical approach based on our experience and where we see the future taking us a little bit. >> first, a background for a couple slides. our water system is depicted here. this is a schematic that spans the width of california. we put it to fit on a slide. 85 percent comes from those reservoirs. the area outlined in gold is our service area for the entire system. this is our map of our wholesale customers and san francisco. based on the depth of the blue color it shows how much of a community's water supply depends on the san francisco regional water system. the darkest blue on the east bay gets 100 percent of its supply from san francisco from us and just below that the alameda county water district only gets 20 percent of its water supply from us. most of the peninsula are dark blue colors, so a lot of people depend on our system from water supply

and i first want to express deep admiration for the job steve richie does for the city and facing this important challenge. but there was something that came up the gentleman from the river trust brought up that has been nagging at me over the years, and that's the fact that the sfpuc is behind almost all other water agencies in producing recycled water. daly city has been producing secondary water for a decade. we can use it to irrigate golf courses instead of flushing it out to the sea. and in san francisco we have put in purple pipe zones, and developers have been doing that for years with the idea that eventually, instead of using hetch water to flush toilets, we would have a supply to go to this new plumbing system we required in certain zones of the city for many years but with no supply. i guess the frustration i feel a little bit is i would love to see more advocacy from the fromy in conjunction, this commission and the sfpuc to start accelerating production of treated water, of recycled water. it's being done in communities across california. and there's no reason we shouldn't

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