<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I plan to go to this; encourage you all to consider it. Amazing how much I don't know about a place I have lived all my life! And my favorite part of "my" place, too!<div>Anyone? Carpool? Sept. 22, 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.<br><div><br><div>The BAWSCA meeting was informational; I saw a map of all the new pipelines coming from Hetch Hetchy, saw who the members of the agency are (water district reps and cities who have no separate water districts; all of us who use HH water).</div><div>Clearly, SFPUC holds all the power, but this group can make recommendations and give opinions. Peter Dreckmeier asked me and others to come, and I am glad I did. Held at Foster City library; their regular meetings are too.</div><div>About 20 people spoke, me too, on the new plan to suck more water from the Tuolumne River. All, 100%, were opposed. Other people were quite knowledgeable and eloquent; I just tried to make the point that a goal of "meeting increased demand" is a mistaken goal. People need to know limits, know the problems and not just keep consuming; most will actually change behavior if they know they need to! Trying to meet "customer demand" merely hides the existence of shortages from us.</div><div>Gloria</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Peter Drekmeier <<a href="mailto:pdrekmeier@earthlink.net">pdrekmeier@earthlink.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 19, 2012 9:41:19 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Silicon Valley Watershed Summit</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Friends,<div><br></div><div>I'd like to encourage you to attend the Silicon Valley Watershed Summit on September 22. Here are the details.</div><div><br></div><div>-Peter</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b>Silicon Valley Watershed Summit!</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-style-span">Saturday, September 22, </span>8:30am-2:00pm</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Foothill College (Smithwick Theater), 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Details: <a href="http://www.acterra.org/watershedsummit">http://www.acterra.org/watershedsummit</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Registration: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/256652">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/256652</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">The Silicon Valley Watershed Summit is a gathering of activists and elected officials, agency staff and non-profit leaders, and the newly-interested, to learn about and take steps to improve our local watersheds in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. This event will focus on “Big Picture” issues that challenge the health of our watersheds, and teach skills that YOU can implement in your watershed and community. Participants will be able to congregate around specific topics and watersheds, and initiate "friends of" groups and public-private partnerships that will continue working together to promote, protect and restore our watersheds. Special speakers are Brock Dolman, Director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center’s Water Institute, and Lester Snow, former California Secretary of Natural Resources and current Director of the California Water Foundation.</div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>-----------------------------------</div><div>Peter Drekmeier</div><div><a href="mailto:pdrekmeier@earthlink.net">pdrekmeier@earthlink.net</a></div><div>(650) 223-3333</div></div><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>