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SFPUC starts program to identify new water supplies after regional warning
Summary
A Bay Area water-users group warned San Francisco could lose tens of millions of gallons per day under a state plan; SFPUC staff said a new internal program, short-term hires and a report to the commission will lay out options including recycled water and transfers.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday heard a regional warning that state actions to protect the Bay-Delta could cut the city nd neighboring counties—y tens of millions of gallons a day and pledged to accelerate a new water-supply program.
A representative of the Bay Area regional water users gency (transcript: BOSCA) told the commission the state—ay-Delta plan could force mandatory 50% reductions in multiple-year droughts and said SFPUC—stimates the adopted plan could reduce supply by about 90,000,000 gallons per day. SFPUC staff later corrected that estimate to 93,000,000 gallons per day.
Steve Ritchie, SFPUC…
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