how we go about that and it's from steve ritchie. >> thank you. and before we start, if it's okay with the other commissioners, i'd like to give the public three minutes to speak on this item five on water supply if that if nobody has any objections to that. okay, miss linear, when we start public comment will you set the clock for three minutes? >> thank you. >> excuse me. good afternoon, commissioners. steve ritchie, assistant general manager for water. if i can have the slides please. i'm here to give an overview of our water supply planning to set the stage for future discussions as well. >> there's lots of details that flow behind these things but this is trying to give you a good overview of where we're at in the world of water supply planning. certainly as background one of the things that that we that drives our planning is that we have to provide service in perpetuity. we're a 24 seven operation with no end date. so we are basically you know, in this for the long haul short term thinking cannot be part of our water supply planning because