[Sustain] VERY Time Sensitive - Need SFGP OK To Oppose SF Bay Desalination Project

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

The SF Public Utilities Commission, in a surprise move, recently fast 
tracked an action item for its meeting this coming Tuesday to approve a 
$200,000 appropriation for the SFPUC to take part in a San Francisco Bay 
desalination project with other Bay Area counties.

Desalination is a really bad environmental process which uses huge 
amounts of energy to run salt water through reverse osmosis filters in 
order to produce drinking water. Besides using energy it also kills 
massive amounts of marine life, and produces a highly toxic high salt 
brine that then must be either disposed of (potentially contaminating 
ground water) or returned to open waters (badly contaminating estuaries, 
bays and oceans). (To learn more about the harms caused by desalination 
go to: 
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/desalination-an-ocean-of-problems/ 
)

I will be at the SFPUC hearing and need two approvals from the SFGP:

1) To oppose San Francisco's involvement in the desalination project.

2) To sign SFGP on to the attached letter that Baykeeper has drafted to 
present to the SFPUC before its meeting Tuesday.

CC members please review and let me know by tomorrow if you can, if I 
can tell Baykeeper we are on board to sign the letter.

peace

Eric B
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