. >> gail is one of our watershed keepers she's one of the first female wolfed people (clapping.) but beyond that gail is what we call a legacy she's multiple generational and dedicated her life to the preservation of the waters the environmental values of protecting our water salt lake city sthooe she's gained admiration we called that on her in the rim fire and she did so even though she's getting close to retirement but she did so. she's helped us change the base of our watershed keepers a face that people know and want to associate with. and because i can't get this right your father and great grandfather >> my grandfather and father. >> all worked on our watershed when it was the spring valley water company. we want to wish gail a good luck in her retirement i know she'll be around while but thank you on behalf of the city and department her husband is a efforter it's all in the family (clapping) and also their boss john is here to recognize him (clapping) with that gail i have a little plaque for you come to the perfumed >> good afternoon sister. >> hi, and thank you. it's b

in the watershed. the deal would be glazing not field near the work sites i remember the calm water of the watersheds made me feel like i was on top of the mountain >> i want to mention one of the things the core does is leverage dollars and we've brought prop $84 to the watershed so we're anxious to see how we can look forward to the puc's further support. >> commissioner vietor. i want to thank you for your work we've done many things for the community on behalf of my appreciation for being here today >> thank you both very much for being here and a thanks for all the good work you do. next speaker card i have is francisco >> good morning. >> good morning, commissioners i'm going to speak on a number of issues. right from the inception when the core was created i was at the presidio and the conservation goal does good work because it gives opportunity inform indulge work for the folks who want to get their jd but also good jobs but we need to focus on are career jobs not giving people jobs for two or

or public private programs based on aspects of the watershed whether it be the wildlife or other pieces. i'm going to hand things off right now to jackie to talk about no. 2 and 3 and i'll be back in just a second. >> over the last 3 years, apri has developed a center for youth to access year round in summer jobs, internships and enrichment programs. through our existing programs we have some with rec and parks department as well as oewd i recently just received a notice of award for a unified school district program with oewd, as well as a small contract with the port through the conservation corps. through our existing programs we have the ability to work with neighborhood youth and really match them with these life-changing experiences and opportunities. we want the ecocenter to be a place where we inspire the youth to get involved and dream really big. our outreach network, which i'm moving into the third bullet point there for the targeted community outreach, our outreach network includes existing relationships with community leaders, our churches, our unified school district schoo

department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use by 20 city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use city clerk: [hearing - drought preparations] sponsor: breed hearing with the public utilities commission and department of the environment to review their plans for preserving water, and protecting san francisco's watershed from drought and fire, given we are in the midst of the worst dry spell in 100 years, and governor brown has asked all californians to reduce their water use by 20 okay. give me 1234 -- give me one moment. i call for this issue w

organization first and foremost our mission aligns with the ecocenter with the experience leading watershed education efforts. we also as carol mentioned been a very successful port tenant for over 17 years and we have the financial and administrative capacity to support and grow the cone center operations and now i'm going to take the opportunity to hand it off to both peggy and jackie to talk about what they bring to this wonderful collaboration. >> hello again, i am peggy, happy to be here again to talk a little, very little, about city college of san francisco. i think you heard at length last time with many who came forward to speak about our long relationship both with heron's head park and most recently with the ecocenter in terms of its daily operations and maintenance as well as their delivery of programs and tours to the public and students. we bring many strengths via our collaboration, not only are we educators coming from multiple sdmripbs, disciplines, we are very excited especially those that are currently teaching and working with city build and other courses at the evans ca

they used their years of water quality testing to create a detailed yukon watershed plan.he plan included a disarmingly simple vision -- to be able to drink water directly from the yukon river. something that's no longer possible in many places. >> our responsibility now is to capture those water rights. we have talked to the federal government and put them on notice, this is at the direction of our leadership, we expect gocht confrontation. >> reporter: the plan put canadian and u.s. governments, city landfill, sewage, power authorities, as well as oil, gas and mining companies on notice. >> one of my first phone calls was just, what the hell do you folks think you're doing? i said, we're asserting our rights. if i'm a gold miner that sounds like a threat. you can do whatever you want as long as you're not infringing upon the rights to clean water. >> reporter: the united nations, the u.s. and canadian governments, have all stated that tribal people do have legal rights involving clean water. rights which will likely be tested in courtrooms in coming years. to what extent

that is not available today in the watersheds. is aimed at proper classification of the 80,000 plus chemicals that we have in america. that number grows every day. safe taking water act is save at we have -- having drinking water in our communities by providing methods. i want to agree with you on federalism. we believe in the states. we believe the government closest to people is the most responsible. we also need to recognize that safe drinking water is an interstate problem. maryland could do everything that is reasonable but the water is coming from west virginia and if west virginia does it do it's reasonable, and the people of maryland are at risk. i think there is a proper balance on the federalism. i could not agree with you more. that is why we are reluctant to preempt local government. being debatede is today. we are reluctant because things change quickly. chemical change quickly. need to beclosest are able to respond. we are reluctant to ever take away that authority from the states. on the other hand, we do need to ha

with hicht the cherry water is very, very good as good as hetch hetchy but it doesn't have all the watershed supplies so we may operate it in slope process just the hetch hetchy water and just the cherry water and have disfix in between. either way we'll extend the water so far as possible >> we'll have to filter it if we mix it. >> yeah. right. >> thank you. thank you, mr. ricky >> mr. vice president that concludes my report. >> so i see mr. erick if there's no other any public comment? there are no speaker cards >> a very good afternoon i'm eric i'm representing the local. i'm also one of the members of the sierra club bay chapter committee and i want to take you back to our last meeting. and also a or some of you may have seen in the newspapers a report about deacceleration i want to make sure that that report took comments out of the context and made it a lot look we were supportive of deacceleration we don't support of the bay area deacceleration project that's still the case. let me read from the sierra clubs guidelines deacceleration shouldn't be used for water supply needs that can b

. >> now ken pritchett, live after learning how this rain will benefit the russian river watershed. >> reporter: as bill said, we have a light rain here at the marin headlands. it's been raining since we arrived here about two hours ago. in a sense this is starting to feel a little normal. what we expect for february or the rainy season. of course, we'll need a lot more than this to even put a dent in the drought. the russian river. these anglers are casting from a shore line rarely seen. they should be several feet underwater. >> as you look behind you, that last little point, he would probably be up right around there. >> reporter: all the locals know that the russian river is running at historic lows. >> all they could talk about for the last month while i was planning my move here, was we hope it rains. >> reporter: this series of storms will help. the russian river is running at about 5 feet now, and projected to be at about 10 feet by monday. >> it seems like everything is back to normal. >> reporter: the rain is welcome, but we're far from normal. the russian river is flowing a

. >> now ken pritchett, live after learning how this rain will benefit the russian river watershed. >> reporter: as bill said, we have a light rain here at the marin headlands. it's been raining since we arrived here about two hours ago. in a sense this is starting to feel a little normal. what we expect for february or the rainy season. of course, we'll need a lot more than this to even put a dent in the drought. the russian river. these anglers are casting from a shore line rarely seen. they should be several feet underwater. >> as you look behind you, that last little point, he would probably be up right around there. >> reporter: all the locals know that the russian river is running at historic lows. >> all they could talk about for the last month while i was planning my move here, was we hope it rains. >> reporter: this series of storms will help. the russian river is running at about 5 feet now, and projected to be at about 10 feet by monday. >> it seems like everything is back to normal. >> reporter: the rain is welcome, but we're far from normal. the russian river is flowing a

and finally in san francisco and say they have very little snow accumulate in the watershed are wronghere are water storage is about 70% of average in the same mandatory rationing is still a possibility if these new storms to not turn things are around. >> pam: ahead at eight >> pam: how a burglar was caught in the act. at an east bay home. >> reporter:people behavin g badly! >> reporter:people behavin g badly! +x5çwççyçyçyçy5çwç5ç5ç5ç5ç5ç5ççy dear future olympian, one day you will be standing on and here's exactly how you'll get there. you'll work hard and you'll fall hard. you'll lose sometimes when you really should have won. you'll win sometimes when no one thought you had a shot. and you'll never, ever stop. we know this. because you're one of us. at citi, we believe in everyone's potential, which is why citi and evan are giving back to community sports programs to help fiuture athletes every step of the way. hales corners, wisconsin. nice pass by alyson dudek. can she hang on to that spot? and she does! [ male announcer ] with the u-verse wireless receiver, your tv goes where yo

way society is run and so on so afghanistan is in fact a high water mark is that they say it's a watershed is the rubicund and after this native new government in western europe would permit would vote for in involvement like afghanistan in the future one has the example of syria where the m.p.'s in britain rebelled against the british government decision to get involved they said no we're not going to do that and the reason for that was of course i've got to stand why are we getting involved in syria and that's the reason why nato will not get militarily involved in syria or anywhere else in the middle east the big question is what happens then if iran gets a nuclear weapon that will be a key question and that's really will be decided by the americans and the israelis jonathan there are people that say they need to. go ahead but at their last last thirty seconds i but there are people who are saying what not exactly that nato should be global go ahead i just want first of all marriages to deal with one thing the martensite i mean are i think it was a watershed afghanistan what are. the pr

we're hurting for water. >> there's been some rain and watershed manager dug down to show us the seasons first good news. >> its beginning to saturate. >> and a few yards away. >> we're already seeing some water showing up in a little side creek here. >> culverts are still dry but he says run-off should begin with the next rain. >> i'm going to have to see successive storms over the next two months to get us out of the trouble that we're in. >> and that trouble still looms, voluntary restrictions now but without that significant rain restrictions could become mandatory as they are in other north bay communities. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> the south bay got more than a half inch of rain because of the type of problems we haven't seen in awhile. the creek trail in santa clara was closed as a safety precaution due to the threat of flooding and it reopened later this afternoon. a water district spokesman said there were no reports of flooding on any of the main waterways. in the sierra resort operators are hoping the storms can help salvage a dismal ski season. the highest elevati

.. >> and, you know, they were very focused on the health of the watershed. they were not thinking about, you know, the rivers that flooded last september or, you know, the wild, destructive wildfires in isolation. >> right. >> they were looking at this as this is our watershed. we need to protect it. yeah, that, you know, the fact that they can live there and prosper and grow is as a result of having a healthy, a healthy watershed. >> right. >> so this sort of picking apart of the protections is, you know, is troublesome in that, you know, we have tried in addition to the regulatory work to really look at kind of watersheds whether they're sort of the big, iconic, you know, ecosystems that we think of, the everglades, chesapeake bay, the bay delta in california or, you know, the watershed that supplies fort collins and its neighboring cities that we have to take more holistic approach particularly in light of a changing climate. >> so you've served in two different decades, two different presidents. what's the thing that -- not, not how are the presidents di

emigrate black line is what they view from the average show pack into the watershed and the green line is again, the - is last year 2013 and the imply line shows you 23407 our last low water year and the red line is current. so let me give you one good slide here. with citywide the municipal water use has decreased so all the city departments are nearly on here. the water use has declined fwi percent since fiscal year 07 and 08 we're part of that but given the current drought there is more that needs to be done what are redoing that takes us into the current data. a couple of things irrigation was our main water use we're the largest city water user that's normal. we're looking to reduce our irrigation operation by 10 periods of time we'll ideal back our timer control setting as he the gardenerers will be mindful of pulling back their application of water by 10 percent this is one see exception no name reflecter motor it means sexy electronic probes into the ground will measure the root zone moisture content. those probes allow you to control the irrigation exactly to what the roots ne

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emergency we can clearly save 7, 8, 9 million gasoline's a day if we much more aggressively produce watersheds restoration and come posting toilets. you know, we haven't begun to do those things and for us to assume the big problem is not that we're loort deacceleration but that's not on equal but we need to look at this as a last resort >> the question is using the technology as opposed to to the technicalities. i don't think that this commission as considered deacceleration from other water supply. i think that's part of the triple bottom line my consideration you fly away those considerations >> if i can - can i respond for a second. i would tend to agree with the commission but often they do and commissioner torres a couple of years ago or about a year and a half ago asked to have a really robust process around the deacceleration issue and today we've had only one presentation in san francisco and one in the east bay and not had a good strong process or communication with staff to see if the deacceleration make sense and we need more information >> thanks. >> is there any other any public

at their watershed, the growth rate has become negative.he rate of poaching has outstripped the rate of births in rhino. it is a major problem. >> animal protection advocates in the media are also alarmed. only recently, a black rhino was killed in the middle of the project area with 16 gunshots. the poachers then sought off at horns -- its horn. since then, the organization increased its patrol flights. showing its present is part of the deterrent strategy. fears are growing that after south africa, rhino poaching syndicates will take -- will target namibia. >> the pacific is very powerful. they have a lot of financial backing. and they are using other south african countries and other countries to do their dirty work for them. it is all profitable -- more profitable at the moment and the illegal drug trade. >> tourism is an important component in the struggle against poaching. thanks to the regular income, most locals have understood that their rare among wild animals are more valuable alive than dead. defending that success against the r

you have got to have accurate information to respond and that is not available today in too many watersheds. it is interesting because the law is aimed at crosser -- proper classification of the 80,000 chemicals we have in america. that number grows every day, and the safe drinking water act is aimed at making sure we have delivery of safe drinking water in our communities through a variety of methods. i want to agree with you on federalism, federalism does say we believe in the states, we believe the government closest to the people is the most responsive but we also need to recognize safe drinking water is an interstate problem. maryland can do everything reasonable, the district can do everything reasonable, water from west virginia and west virginia doesn't do what is reasonable people representing maryland are at risk and the people in the nation's capital to depend upon us in the national level are at risk so there is proper balance on federalism but i couldn't agree with you more and that is why we are always reluctant to preempt local government. that issue is being debate did today

the remaining members of the beatles come together to mark the watershed moment in america. the "cbs morning news." (meow mix jingle) right on cue. it's more than just a meal, it's meow mix mealtime. with wholesome ingredients and irresistible taste, it's the only one cats ask for by name. suddenly you're a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. ♪ close your eyes and i'll kiss you ♪ >> that is the performance that kicked off the british invasion in america. the beatles playing at "the ed sullivan show" 50 years ago sunday. fast forward and the celebration was celebrated on the same stage that made them household names. it was a >> reporter: ringo starr and sir paul mccartney reunited on stage reminding america of the historic performance on "the ed sullivan show" 50 years ago. america loved them back and still does. >> they came on and i felt like i was elevate off the floor. it with us just fantastic. >> reporter: so

infrastructure to better understand what resonates with the resident as we think about the san francisco watershed. many of the awareness campaign your number two is now number one their castle and educating residents. we've had different opinions their provacative adds but we really i think all of us who collectively agree they're getting educated. last week in washington, d.c. we talked about the sewer campaign and our representative heard about this and that's an interesting feedback. we're increasing our social media on twitter and facebook using this tool to educate residents that don't typically engage with the puc. we've represented the regulatory at the local state and a federal level. we've passed about 50 items at the board of supervisors. at the state level we are pro-active in having an our priorities as well as advocating interests. lecturer we advocated working closely with s f p u d for proposition 39 which resulted in an altered two or $3 million and energy efficient dollars. at the federal level we've been working with the mayor's office to talk about infrastructure. last week our

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to fold this into the system and improving our management system after all and implementing the watersheds in the environmental program and increasing - making sure your staff can do their jobs. the operating budget basically in terms of dollars that's debt service and resources it's paying the mortgage and it's the changes in water. on the position side todd noted there's basically 30 new possessions over the 3 years this shows 4 their transferred from infrastructure and the entrepreneurs it will come into the water infrastructure. this is about 15 or 16 positions within the water enterprise from one position of one job to another. we actually have dug in deep and found where we can shift position from old jobs to new jobs. the new positions are primarily associated with the implements of the ground water program as well as the main replacement program. on the capital side we had a big exchanging challenge with this budget in terms of dealing with the cost increases with the water system improvement program. this capital budget is for 5 projects the dam and alameda creek and the transitio

i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america >> welcome back. we are talking about utah and the very high levels of air pollution that in fact rival los angeles. brice, the state legislature failed to pass a bill putting more teeth in the current standards, i understand you are not on the policy ending of this, but why the pushback on this when everyone agrees that the air needs to be improved. >> we have high hopes for other provisions up for discussion. when it comes to the regulations, one, you have a plan to address it, and so you are making improvements and the best time to do that is actually in the past and we have a long history of addressing the air pollution in this area. on that note, one comparison that is invalid is comparing us to beijing, our worst days are about the same as their ample days so really, you know, hundreds of

i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism advocate, we should not abolish the death penalty. because i think there are certain few kyles i do not advocate widespread use of the death penalty, but i maintain there are certain few crimes the which are the vast majority of americans and certainly the vast majority of coloradoians would conclude that life in prison is not an adequate response. let me give you some examples. we have a guy facing first degree murder charges. he orchestrated from behind bars, in jail, the murder of witnesses against him. if you don't get a death penalty, he has no greater consequence has he nod done so. you have a scenario where an inmate serving life in prison, kill as correctional officer, is it adequate response to take away his television prief limbs but no other consequence because he is already serving life in prison. >> i think the vast majority of people would say no, we have to have a lot of executions but i do think we have to keep it on the books and i have advocated this, for those type of scenarios, for the timothy mc

i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism al jazeera america. ♪ ♪ >>>to "the stream," and we are talking about tracking our health on fitness devices. a recent study found that the people who might benefit the most are the elderly and chronically ill. i know some over 65s at my gym that can totally kick my rear, but generally these devices f for -- the elderly and ill seems a little counter intuitive. >> they need more exercise like anything. i don't think it's that big of a deal. >> jamie i was reading some research, and they said on average they see people use these things for maybe three weeks up to two months, and that's it. >> i think the initial fun wears off, and you have to calibrate these, and sometimes they are not charged. and it is just an added thing to take with you to the gym. in the beginning you make sure it is charged, and then it starts to lose his luster. >> have yours sat on your dresser drawer. >> i have a couple. >> yeah. >> speaking about how this is helping seniors . . . and speaking on the negative side, stephen says . . . very

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and i think that was a watershed moment looking back, saying this is going to be a big priority. quite frankly since 9/11 the focus had been on terror and terror networks, and while this was still ongoing in the background, and it really took a front seat. >> is there a resentment in mexico that there's the hunger for these substances that is destabilizing mexico that it is really americans that are giving mexico a drug problem? >> there is something to in the sense that tomorrow magically u.s. drug demand were to stop indeed that would lead to reduction of the drug trade in mexico, but i think that's somewhat of a cop out by mexico. turkey is the springboard for about 75% of heroin reaching the european market. or look at -- look at place like morocco, more -- morocco, large springboard for cocaine. so the notion that most of our problems with driven by the drug trade and if that could just magically disappear, i think that is a simplifying assumption. at the end of the day, mexico doesn't have a drug problem, it has a state capacity problem, and we need to deal with that. >> is

. >> we're not expecting to get better either, because the watersheds are so dry, and it would make a good 8 inches of rain really to see any measurable run off in our reservoirs. >> reporter: this is a mandatory 20% as opposed to the volunteer 10% cutbacks asked of us last month. this paves the way for fines, higher water bills and new rules like banning landscaping watering during the way. theresa says that will impact her clients. >> hotels never really cut back on the look of their entrance. you want it to look good, so they'll put money into their flowers and they need water. >> reporter: retailers say they could impose fine it is someone violates the rules. a water company would have to get any rules and surcharges approved by the state public utilities commission. >> when people conserve, we have to maintain the fixed cost portion of our business, so that's what the surcharge would cover. >> reporter: swimming up your pool may also be banned. >> we have a guy come by every other week and make sure the ph balance is good and there's no bacteria. that's what we try to do right no