water. and now, it's an expectation. narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, undergr

narrator: agriculture and industry use roughly 80% of the water consumed in the united states. water is the basis for manufacturing many goods and provides the ability to clean and sterilize everything from computer chips to the surgical instruments used in hospitals. kelly: the minute that there's not enough water for businesses, industry, and individuals, they have to go elsewhere. and when they go elsewhere, jobs go elsewhere. your entire economy begins to suffer with the lack of clean water. narrator: while the water infrastructure provides for our health, safety, and economy, a growing concern is that the value society derives from water has not traditionally been reflected in the price we pay for water. man: when you take a look at how much people pay for water, as a percentage of median household income, it's usually less than 1%. and when you compare that to how much we pay for electricity and gas, cable tv, and internet, the bottom line is, in the united states, we don't pay a heck of a lot for water. curtis: at an average cost of about $2.50 for 1,000 gallons of tap water,

minds and hoping that the e p a will guide worldwide standards and not just for california or united states waters. we were recognized over and over again for our new cruise ship terminal. we are there with port with doing what they call reclamation projects where they are building multiple terminals to immediate multiple demand of ships. it was san francisco that got the most kudos and we were very pleased to participate in a joint conference, with cruise, the baltics and from air from copenhagen to san francisco and it sold out. so we started a great partnership there. copenhagen does around 450 calls per year. we do 65-70. it was great to be invited to that. i guess lastly i would men mention that we had a chance to visit members including the architect for james arm an cruise terminal. it was great to hear from them and they have chose to do the project if they go forward but it's having changes in ownership. i don't know if there is anything i left out, i'm sure i did, but it was a very good visit and as i said it was great to be so widely recognized for our new temperature natural. so really

united states, it's pitting one state against another. a population surge combined with one of the worst droughts in recent memory has resulted in serious pressure on water supply. peter adams has been from one end to the other. >> bring in the rockies, rivers born and nurtured with snow and runs out. when there is not an of snow and the rivers run dry, the battles began. this battle is going all the way to the u.s. supreme court. taxes accusing its neighbor to mexico of not -- texas accusing its neighbor new mexico of not sharing enough of the precious water. the autot stop -- gauge. it measures how much water is flowing south. not as much as the state's top water manager would like, but he is adamant new mexico is managing its obligations. >> new mexico has made all of its deliveries for many, many years now. what is the harm that they are able to show in the suit that there has been some harm? we pause at south, elephant butte reservoir. we're in the middle of a man- made desert. a lot of thursday farms and cities depend on it, too, and it is drying up. >> you can see the high water mark is 100 feet over our head. it was last up there in the late 1990

united states. alabama is a border state. wehappen to border water, border the gulf of mexico. rticularly in southern alabama, we're a pipeline for narcotics coming into the united states, predominantly out of the united states. there are major drug trafficking arteries coming into the united states. the immigration has become a great concern because some illegal immigrants either use the drug trade or the drug trade uses them to get them into the united states. we found a direct correlation with that. initially when alabama passed this immigration law the law was very tough. it was going to place a lot of requirements on law enforcement and a lot of things we were going to have to procedural in order to enforce this law. ironically, most law enforcement officers disagreed passage of this law. the reason is, we recognize that citizenship goes to the united states of america, not necessarily to the united states of alabama. >> christians feel that we have a responsibility to help those in need. theertainly demonstrated needs to the needy and alabama is a state with a lot of pover

foreign country is maybe engaging in some sort of cyber threat to attack a water treatment facility or something in the united states obviously water treatment facilities don't have. any body's personal information stored within that facility so it's like that wouldn't be subject so much cisco but which is but then applied to social networks for people might have been talking about that threat online and have to reach out and try and grab that information from facebook or other sites where her message boards where people are talking to respond to that threat against a water plan or something as the bill is drafted it would because it would probably fall under the definition of the cyber threat information so if if there was information in terms of on a social network discussing some type of cyber threat that did actually occur particularly if there were details in it that warrants available to the public information definitely be shared and if you were somehow connected that person and talked about your information could be caught up in that when you may have nothing to do with it. when all this was going on. there

think the propaganda problem is that we're not really had much of a dialogue here in the united states about water or long term strategy and so if that's really cold comfort for these guys isn't it i mean to be honest if they don't if they've cleared been cleared. it that is you know part of the story is that they've been cleared but a bigger part of the story is there really has not been a discussion in the united states about what does it mean what is the sensible terrorism policy given both human rights constrains and the need to protect the american people i'll just give you one quick example of that i think charles made the point earlier which is that the obama administration was willing to undertake a greater amount of risk with respect to some releases than the bush administration was and that's partially true although after the underwear bombing happened the attempted underwear bombing happened northwest plane christmas two thousand and nine you know the obama administration which initially was in favor of some returns to yemen really pulled back itself from the idea of sending people back

prior appropriation differs from repairing a water differs from repairing a water the been the most of the rest of the united states where water rates or could not do directly to land. if you have land that has water, you have a way to the latter. if you salant county saw the water. you can't sell the water without delay and attached it. fish is not enough water out here to operate that way. so the minors, very early in western history in the early 1800s come to california made up their own agreement with each other. other. whoever got their first got the water and had the right to direct it where they needed it in some times that the long-distance you have to send water to where it's needed. so i said above so very few decades, becomes, which basically comes down to first in time. if you get there first, you have on behalf of the slaughter. whoever's next guess was left over. there is one caveat, beneficial use. you have to pitch or water to beneficial use to have a right to it. in other words, people can get to a river and claim it and not use it. if you got there first, you have a right to that water. all of us

the goal is tonight largest netzero museum in the united states using bay water for heating and cooling and solar panels for power. if you come back to us live, you'll probably notice that there's also some gates around the building. that's because a small portion of the area is still under construction but the grand opening will still happen today. again, the ceremony starts at 9:00 followed by the ringing of the exploratorium bell and doors open to the public at 10:00. live in san francisco, elissa harrington, kpix 5. >> big house of fun. >> i know. i like that. lieutenant governor newsom and mayor lee will speak at the opening ceremonies. it's going to be like the must go place in san francisco. >> may want to wait for the crowds to die down. i know i will. be sure to check it out. time now 4:42. >>> coming up, how much you pay a year just to drive a car. >> might surprise you. >> and a bay area music event bringing in some big, big names. the rock stars taking over the outside lands festival. we'll tell you coming up. >> we may be entering a post- antibiotic era where literally a sk

the plant that does operate on natural gas and biomass fuels as a single largest user of water in the united states, cooling and power plants is responsible for 39% and total withdrawals at 200 billion gallons of water every day. most of the waters returned to service, the powers that are is responsible for 2% of noted by senator mansion. the type of power cycles oling technology as well as prevailing climate. many factors determine how much is used by power plants in a table is provided with detailed. solar panels and melinda natural gas are for power plants. referring to senator manchin's remarks, the non-consumptive and consumptive use is important because it has an impact on water availability further users. non-consumptive is also important because they affect the power sector's reliability and potential impingement and thermal loading of water-based vacation to buy power plants. if water is too scarce or too, power plants may need to turn off or dialback because of the need to comply with the limits and that could have cascading effects to other sectors affecting refining needs, water systems

is what we call the law prior appropriation that differs from repairing water law which is in most of the rest of the united states where water rights were connected directly to land and if you have land that has water, you have a right to that water. if you sell land, you sell that water. you don't sell the water without selling the land that's attached to it, but there's just not enough water out here to have the law operate that way, so the miners, very early in western history in the early 1800s coming to california, got the rights to the water wherever they needed it, and sometimes there's a long distance of where you have to send water to where it's needed. the law prior of appropriations as it evolved over decades becomes law that comes down to first in time and right. if whoever comes next, gets what is leftover, but there's one caveat to that law, and that is the caveat of beneficial use. you have to put your water to beneficial use to have a right to it, and people can't get to a river and use it. if you use it for a beneficial reasons, then you talk about 25-40 million people now in the united states an

it differs from riparian water law which is in most of the rest of the united states. where water rights are connected directly to land, and if you have land that has water, then you have a right to the water. if you sell land, you sell the water. you can't sell the water without selling the land. there's just not enough water out here to have the law operate that way. so the minors very early in western history in the early 1800s coming to california made up their own sort of agreement with each other. whoever got their first cup of water. they have the right to direct it wherever they needed it, and sometimes that's a very long way, a long distance that you have to send water to where it's needed. so this law of prior appropriations as it evolves over the decades becomes law, which basically comes down to first in time, first in right. if you get there first, you have the most water. whoever comes next, gets what is left of it. so there's one caveat and that is the caveat of beneficial use. you have to push water to beneficial use to have a right to it. people can sum

. >> the united states specific commander says the test missiles goes over water, the united states does need to shoot it down but he would recommend intercepting in defense of the united states or our allies. >> now a time for weather forecast. you like sun? >> totally that is why we live here. mike has the forecast. >> energizing sun shine is what we have. warmer-than-average temperatures. the flag at pier 15 shows what you need to know on the forecast, it is not moving. the winds are gone. the warm air can take over. we will be nine degrees warmer than we should at napa, redwood city, and san francisco. 12 in san jose. 14 in oak. 19 degrees warmer-than-average in livermore. we have mid-to-upper 50's at 7:00. we have sunshine. we will be in the low-to-mid 70's away from the coast by noon. we will be in the 70's and 80's away from the coast by 4:00 where you are in the upper 50's to mid-60's. by 7:00, 50's at the coast and low 70's, a delightful evening, without the breezes of yesterday it will feel what the temperature says on the thermometer. sea breeze comes back tomorrow and we hold

and the united states has a water bucket and it's not using it. this is what they say all the time. and if you have something and you can do something, to prevent the house from burning down, you have a responsibility, a moral responsibility. that's the way they see it whether the united states wants to be in that position or not, they see us having a water bucket that we're not using. there are bases in turkey and nato would be the framework that most people think would be the one to be used that are just a few miles away from where the refugees are crossing and from where the people are dying and those nato air bases aren't doing anything. and it is hard to tell, to look the syrian opposition in the eyes and say yes, we understand you all are dying, but we're worried that some factions who are in among you who are fighting and dying, we don't like them very much. >> there's a piece in the new yorker last week, the river martyrs we lose site of the violence that's been befallen the syrian people. >> he writes the park in a neighborhood of aleppo was a public playground called cobbl

water act 1972. it has a stated aim of making every river and stream in the united state fishable and swimmable. have fallen far short of that, so we are clearly not doing enough to protect our water. this system, while better than nothing, is clearly inadequate. >> the clean water act and npds permits are not as strong as they need to be. we as a country need to take action to strengthen the permits and the acts so we can make earth's water swimmable, fishable, and drinkable. it is time to make some significant changes to the system in place. these changes include charging companies to obtain the permits, strengthening limits on the amounts of pollution companies can dump into a river under the program, and institute strict pollution guides for all of america's water. >> dear mr. president, help us look towards the future and create strictly enforced national laws that protect our waters for the present and future. let us work together to make our waters swimmable, drinkable, and fishable for ourselves and the generations to come because water pollution affects everyone. >> you can find this vi

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larger, faster and safer than the "titanic," the first time the "ss united states" took to the water,eat that has never been surpassed. but time and money are running out for the ocean liner that carried heads of state and celebrities across the atlantic in the '50s and '60s. this lady in waiting could be sold for scrap unless her owners come up with enough money to save her. the ship's designer, naval architect william francis gibbs, put everything that he had into his ultimate ship. the 2,200-passenger liner also doubled as a convertible troop ship if war broke out. gibbs' obsession with creating the perfect vessel became his granddaughter's obsession with saving it. >> my grandfather was once asked who did he love more, this ship or my grandmother, and he said this ship, 1,000%. i mean, this is an extraordinary american achievement, an amazing expression of our post-war history, and it would be so tragic to see it destroyed. >> reporter: dan mcsweeney's father worked as a steward on the "ss united states." today he overseas the ship's redevelopment project and is looking for partne

pipeline would run over one of our largest sources of fresh drinking water in the united states the ogallala aquifer still there would be like a b.p. disaster on land would be absolutely devastating not only for farmers and ranchers along the pipeline route but for the entire midwest region that depends on that water and depend on that land for a lot of farming and a lot of jobs so as we've been saying all along and it's farmers and ranchers have been saying to brassica that pipeline really is just all risk and no reward so it's good to see the e.p.a. coming on board with that and it's putting some wind in the sails of pipeline upon i say so for environmentalist the e.p.a. statement if sounds like a good thing but the decision is of course still in the hands of the state department how much of this is going to have an effect on the ultimate decision ever whether they ultimately ok the project or not. well i think we'll have a fairly large effect what happens now is that the state department will be going back to finalize its environmental review on ourselves a mental environmental review on

any cruise ship and carnival cruise ship rescued people trying to get to the united states from cuba. they were given food watere's something you don't see every day caught on camera. look at this a huge gorilla running away from a goose. the zoo in kansas captured this. canadian geese ended up in the ape's enclassure and didn't want them around. aid good thing for the fowl the gorilla didn't know he was a gorilla and wanted to pick a fight because my money would be on the gorilla. >>> teens are getting the message. distracted driving is dangerous but having other people in the car may not be. parents why you may want to think twice before letting your teen drive alone. there are results from new study that may surprise you. and you may be called zero but he's hero. coming up how man's best friend is helping a 10-year-old boy get to through the toughest battle of his life. wow, i've been claritin clear for 10 days! when your allergies start, doctors recommend taking one non-drowsy claritin every day during your allergy season for continuous relief. 18 days! 17 days! 22 days of continuous relief. live claritin c

the clean water act prohibits anyone from discharging pollutants to a point source into a water of the united states unless they have a permit. the primary contents limit on what you can discharge, monitoring and reporting requirements and other provisions to ensure the discharge does not heard water quality. an permit will specify acceptable level of pollutant or pollutant parameter in a discharge. make sure the state's mandatory standards for clean water and the federal minimums are being met. pre-k's the national -- >> the have ins the one wae place to ensure we have fishable and some mobile water in the united days. it is legal -- it is illegal for any port source to delete -- to pollutant into our waters without getting a permit. we allow polluters to receive a permanent to just charge into the water. other acts have been proposed that focus on individual aspects of water quality and protections. the efforts, permits, and acts seem like great solutions to provide all americans with clean water. corporations are violating these permits. works with waste collection and need to dump mercury. 13 mo

revamp and totally redo that, we're going to continue to take on water, and we're not going to make any progress. >> but for the united states of america, the best is yet to come. >> and i believe you, mr. president, and because i elieve you, i trust you. for now on, when it comes to this issue of illegal immigration, the only way we'll be headed is forward. >> congratulations to all the winners in this year's student cam competition. to see more winning videos, go to studentcam.org. >> next, live, your calls and comments on "washington journal." then "news makers" with california congressman buck mckeon, chairman of the armed services committee. after that, president obama announces his 2014 budget request. >> orphaned at age 11, she lived with her favorite uncle, james buchanan. years later, he becomes president, and because he's unmarried, she serves as white house hostess. she's the first to be called first lady on a regular basis and is so popular that she sets trends in clothing and children and ships are named after her. meet harriet lane. we'll look at her life and that of her predecessor, jane pierce, along with you

united states on sunday. >>> repairs have been completed after a water main broke.nd east bay mud crews saw 25-gallons a minute rushing out. and a dozen homes and businesses were without water for seven hours. they say it was due to an aging pipe, the one that broke is 63 years old. >>> daily deals website, living social is investigating an attack on customers. names and e- mails and dates of birth were all accessed in the attack. credit card and banking information was not affected. customers are being asked to reset passwords. >>> google founders and the ceo was listed at $one. and they have done that every since the company went public and they both own stock that is valued at $20 billion. >>> the irs says thousands of tax cheats have come clean and they are gotten more than $$5.5 billions. this program is offering reduced penalties and no jail time for those that open up about hiding overseas. >>> a piece of debris that washs ashore in california, is the first confirmed pieces from the japanese tsunami to make it to the state. it came on april 7th and belongs to

arsenic in hundreds of samples of beer some twice as high as what is allowed in drink water here in the united states a national public radio. they say the sources say filtering agent toxin used to make beer be crystal clear is causing the arsenic. >> thank you, jane king, thank you for mentioning beer. >> and now the weather forecast? up arrows? >> temperatures are going up. we will look outside to show you what is going on, 6:50 this morning, we will jump right into what is happening you can see over the east bay hills and valley how clear it is with temperatures from nine to 19 degrees above average in the 70's and 80's today. live doppler 7 hd showing how dry and calm it is this morning because of high pressure sitting on our neighborhoods and it will bring us a calmer day today and cooler air arriving as quickly as tomorrow and it will be breezy but mild for most us away from the coast this weekend. here is a look from sutro tower across the bay bridge, to emeryville and berkeley and san francisco is at 58 and mill valley, and warm spot is oakland at 62 and we are in the low 50's around san jose

the resident of southern nevada can proudly claim a net water use of 75 gallons per person per day and that in the driest city of the united states. next we immediately begin to build new intake deeper to lake mead at the cost of almost $1 billion paid for entirely by our customers. finally we're developing a water supply that is hydrologically independent of the colorado river. as a river community sharing a resource with six neighbors in the united states and the country of mexico, the impacts are being felt by all of us. for all of us, the need to corporate has never been greater. therefore, the importance of the interim shortage agreement signed be state if 2007 and funding project to extend the resources of the fragile river. today lake meed is 10 feet higher than normally be because of the efforts of these three agencies in mexico. even the most thoughtful and prudent strategies won't work if they can't be implemented. adapting to challenges ranging from severe drought to heavy precipitation or rising sea level requires investment and water infrastructure. full-time implications are staggering. we know that local rate payer

with the south creekorean foreign minister to discuss the process, as the united states sends a second destroyer into nearby waterse joined by p.j. crowley, fo now a professor at george washington university. and here in new york, jonathan alter for "the bloomberg news." the nuclear plant that today announced its ground re-opening. what possible purpose would there be for reactivating that plant aside from developing a nuclear weapon? >> well, the other factor would be it's putting back on the table an operation for which it had been rewarded in the past. the moth balling, as you say, of yeongbeyong came as the united states under the bush administration took north korea off the terrorism list. so putting this plant back in play in the north korean psychology, you know, would be saying, well maybe they'll come back and offer something to turn it off again. i think we should be cautious about that. obviously former secretary of defense bob gates famously said we shouldn't buy the same horse more than once. >> indeed. john, is it possible that any of this nuclear weaponry could escape from north korea, perhaps to ir

water. the biggest fear of the united states right now is that south korea will respond in some way, that they'll be provoked to respond. >> won't south korea have to try to shoot it down? >> not if it goes in the water. that's a perfectly good strategy for kim jong-un, he can say it was just going in the water. we were testing missiles. south korea responded to that without any danger coming their way. they would be the ones accused. >> the best outcome would be a failure of north korea. david, you have a piece coming out in the "new york times" how the u.s. can calibrate their response, there's a plan for all-out war. but it's tricky figuring out how to step-up possible to step-up possible responses. >> 5027 is a very old plan. it's been around for 60 years. it's been updated and updated. so, what we have seen over the years from the north koreans have been provocations like the sinking of a south korean ship three years ago that killed about 46 sailors, the shelling of lightly populated island. i think the big question right now, with the very untested new north korean leader, what do you do w

just stealing money from the population isn't this kind of the new high water mark for corruption in america or are you united states government knows probably. well the most corrupt in the world if not the most corrupt. literally everything those shares a lot are done just about economic policy those are all she wrote a recent. war for the recent table a league table that describes the countries around the world in terms of corruption america is no longer in the top twenty in terms of the least corrupt they are dropping precipitously down that scale they're becoming one of the most corrupt countries in the world and this bernanke in the fed and washington are demonstrating exactly what it's like basically argentina we saw during their collapse america same's to be mimicking that pretty closely now let's turn to your book for a second the failure of laws if you're capitalism explain how and why it has failed george let me just run through the book. where you or less affair is just horrible . the books it's very possible what the first part does as it examines salience and economic their problems in an economic there

united states. >>> crews at the damaged fukushima daiichi plant have started a project to stop highly contaminated water from escaping into the environment. workers discovered 3 of 7 storage pools are leaking. tepco officials believe that pools one and two are leaking the most. workers started transfers about 20 tons of water her hour to an aboveground tang nearly 40 meters away. they plan to step up monitoring to make sure no water escapes during transfer. they want to remove 220 tons of contaminated water by june. the pools will continue to lane during the operation. crews will pump any contaminated water they take back into the pool. the amount of contaminated water is increasing by about 400 tons per day. they will no longer use the underground storage pools. they're working on a way to decontaminate the water. currently only two of the operators are online and generating power. >>> a group of citizens have been waging a legal battle to shut those down, but judges said there was not enough evidence. >> the plaintiffs in this case hoped for a legal victory. now they're coming to terms with their loss

the fact that we now believe they have resided in the united states for a period of ten years or perhaps more, that significantly muddies the waterr motive may be. >> one of the things that we'll be looking to do is find out what is their travel history? we've seen in other cases where people have been here for a long time or born here and then they have traveled overseas to attend training camps and then come back. we'll want to know what their travel history is and if it looks like that's a possibility, that may help determine if there was foreign involvement in this or this was purely a plot hatched by these two brothers. >> i think at this point we are certainly no better position to know what may have motivated them although we are learning more about their background and investigators looking into that. we'll have you stand by. we're continuing to monitor the situation unfolding in watertown, massachusetts as police try to find their man. the terrorist who attacked the boston marathon. we'll have more right after this. this. what do you think? thats's great. it won't take long, will it? nah. ok! this won't take long, will i