. >> good afternoon, this is steve ritchie assistant general management for water. this is the water supply development report. this is a report we produce annually. the primary issue of this report status of making san jose santa clara permanent customers. first is a bit of background. san jose and santa clara requested to become temporary customers around 1970. the rest of the customers were well established already. there was litigation in the mid-'70s that resulted in settlement in the mid-'80s. san jose and santa clara were not included within the supply assurance at that time as they were temporary customers. that was an opportunity where they would have been made permanent but they were not. fast forward, the 2009 water supply agreement provided for san francisco to make a decision regarding permanent status for san jose and santa clara by 2018 or to issue a conditional 10-year notice of interruption or reduction in supply of water to the cities. we've been introducing the annual water supply development report since then. as noted, we continue to recommend t

. >> good afternoon, this is steve ritchie assistant general management for water.y development report. this is a report we produce annually. the primary issue of this report status of making san jose santa clara permanent customers. first is a bit of background. san jose and santa clara requested to become temporary customers around 1970. the rest of the customers were well established already. there was litigation in the mid-'70s that resulted in settlement in the mid-'80s. san jose and santa clara were not included within the supply assurance at that time as they were temporary customers. that was an opportunity where they would have been made permanent but they were not. fast forward, the 2009 water supply agreement provided for san francisco to make a decision regarding permanent status for san jose and santa clara by 2018 or to issue a conditional 10-year notice of interruption or reduction in supply of water to the cities. we've been introducing the annual water supply development report since then. as noted, we continue to recommend that no such notice be gi

assistant general manager for water steve ritchie. i am here to talk about the water shortage emergency. something clear and has been for the better part of at least a year if not more california is in a drought. in response to the question that came up earlier in the meeting. the storage is at 267-acre feet. it is a decent place for this time of year when taken as a single thing by itself. there are bigger issues. total storage is about 72.7% overall which is below about 80% which would be normal for this time of year. as i begin this discussion i am going to focus initially on some of the curtailment issues. they actually put a dent in those number that is significant. last thing to say is i think i have been talking about this since about june that we were probably going to need to take some action at least in early january if conditions did not get better in the fall. they haven't gotten better. the initiation of curtailment of diversions made a difference in our outlook. those curtailments went into effect for the river diversion