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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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). (</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">To learn more about the harms
caused by desalination go to:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/desalination-an-ocean-of-problems/">http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/desalination-an-ocean-of-problems/</a>
)</font><br>
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I will be at the SFPUC hearing and need two approvals from the
SFGP:<br>
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1) To oppose San Francisco's involvement in the desalination
project.<br>
<br>
2) To sign SFGP on to the attached letter that Baykeeper has
drafted to present to the SFPUC before its meeting Tuesday.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
peace<br>
<br>
Eric B<br>
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