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