1. Who We Are Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director Jane Wagner-Tyack, Policy Analyst Stina Va, Campaign Administrator Javier Padilla Reyes, Volunteer Coordinator 2014 www.RestoretheDelta.org

2. An Alternative to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan Theres a Better Solution 3. Some Basic Facts: Roughly 1 acre foot of water serves two families per year in California. (Some say 4 families well use the lower estimate) An acre foot of water equals almost 326,000 gallons of water. Roughly 50% of urban water use is for outdoor landscaping. Roughly 2/3 of the water taken from the Delta is for agricultural use. 4. This is what water efficiency looks like! 5. New technology under design at the University of Michigan Engineering Program. Dr. Branko Kerkez is designing systems to quickly track water main breaks for rapid repair. It is estimated cities lose a little over 10% of their supply through water main breaks. 6. Water technology is about. New technology in combination with doing what we already know on a bigger scale. 7. Cisterns (rain water collection): TreePeoples underground cistern: 70 feet in diameter x 8 feet deep, holds up to 216,000-gallons. 8. Hydroponic Lettuce Farm in northeast urban Ohio The for-profit greenhouse produces three million heads of lettuce and more than 300,000 pounds of herbs every year. Three 70,000 gallon cisterns collect snow melt and rain water from the greenhouse roof. 9. A 10,000 gallon cistern at the Houston Parks main greenhouse facility is used to collect and store rainwater off the large greenhouses. The collection tank at the Houston Parks Green houses also serves as the required detention for the city of Houston that floods easily from heavy rainfall runoff. 10. A cistern at a local bank. 11. Cisterns for outdoor urban landscaping If cisterns were in use in the greater Los Angeles area to collect water for ornamental landscaping, urban water use could be cut by up to 50%. Imagine if we placed cisterns throughout California how much less water we would take from our rivers. Metropolitan Water Districts need for Delta water would drop significantly. 12. Domestic cisterns Cisterns in residential homes: cisterns pictured hold up to 3,000 gallons. 13. Imagine how many jobs could be created. Imagine how many jobs would be created: By manufacturing large and residential cisterns for use throughout California; By installing those systems in our current public, office, industrial and residential buildings! 14. Storm water capture: 15. Storm water capture: 16. Imagine how many jobs could be created. Think of how many new jobs could be created if: We built storm water capture systems for our public buildings throughout California; Or if we created these systems in residential areas. 17. Drip irrigation 18. Drip irrigation Using less water for growing things is self- explanatory. 19. Low flush toilets. The average Californian family of four uses 372 gallons of water per day. On average, approximately 47 % of that water is used indoors, with the bathroom being the largest consumer (a toilet alone can use 27 percent!). 20. Low/dual flush toilet vs conventional toilet: 21. Waterless urinals: Replacing 9 of these frees up enough water for 2 families per year. 22. Low flow and aerator showerheads: 23. Imagine how many jobs could be created. Imagine how many jobs could be created if we: Changed out toilets, urinals, and showerheads throughout California; And the millions of acre feet of water that would be saved! 24. Other home water smart technologies: Designed by Reamon Yu, iSAVE faucet features an LED display that reads the amount of water that is being used. This simple information encourages users to reduce water pressure to save more water. The Water Pebble encourages individuals to reduce their shower time to conserve water. The device measures the amount of water going down the plug hole when you shower and memorizes it. 25. Will be able to tell the consumers how much they are paying for water; And how much water is available in their municipal supply at that moment in time. Eventually these LED faucet devices. 26. Drought resistant landscaping: While lawns require a lot of water, much of this water is wasted -- lost due to over- watering and evaporation. Watering equipment plays an important part in how much water is saved and lost. 27. Drought resistant landscaping: Significant conservation can come from switching from exotic plant forms to native species which require less water. 28. Technologies that pull water out of condensation 29. MIT scientists created an advanced fog-harvesting material that enables these giant mist and condensation catchers (see to image to the left) to generate five times more water! Scientists are updating technology used by the Incas! A giant basket that uses condensation to gather drinking water. 30. Westlands area already has solar farms in Fresno & King counties. We should convert unsustainable agriculture on drainage impaired lands to clean energy sources for California. 31. Largest solar farm in California. (Mojave Desert) Makes more sense than new housing growing in the desert from water transfers that originate from Northern California and the Delta! 32. Visual comparison of BDCP to Three Gorges Dam in China We know how that turned out for people and species in the path of that project! 33. Big water projects have too often claimed the lives of people who have worked on them, in addition to harming surrounding communities. We should opt for solutions that have the least negative impact on people and the environment, and the least amount of risk for workers. 34. Imagine how many jobs could be created. Plus more jobs are created through water efficiency technology According to US Alliance for Water Efficiency: Twice as many jobs created through water efficiency projects compared to large water projects! The Business Roundtable of Southern California 2011 Report on Water Efficiency For every $1 million spent in water efficiency over 10 trillion gallons of water & 220,000 jobs can be created! 35. Water efficiency will lead to an environmentally and economically sound future for California. So lets drop the 19th Century Plans for the Delta and California today! 36. Water efficiency is the better solution! 37. Slide 5: Kerkez, Branko and Karun M. Joseph. "Enabling communications for buried pipe networks." Slide 7: Treepeople.org "Cistern" Slide 8: KQED Quest "Urban Neighborhood is Perfect Place to Grow Lettuce" Slide 9: Hubpages LizEvans "Water Conservation | Water | Cisterns | .." Slide 10: Hubpages LizEvans "Water Conservation | Water | Cisterns | .." Slide 12: On top left, KarSare Systems "Wells and Cisterns; On top right, House for Sale in BC "Cozy Little Home with Oceanview; On bottom right, Examiner "26 Crabapple Lane, Asheville, N.C. Slide 14: Landscape Architecture Foundation "Charles City Permeable Streetscape Phase 1" Slide 15: EPA "Green Cisterns at William Jefferson Clinton Building West Diagram Slide 17: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension "Efficient Use of Water in Garden & Landscape" Slide 18: Sairaj Green "Irrigation System" Slide 19: Gov of Canada "Wise Water Use" Slide 20: Inhabitat "Switch to a Low-Flow Toilet and NYC Will give you $125" Slide 21: On left, FalconWaterFree.com; On top right, Treehugger "No splash, no flush urinals from Kohler," On bottom right, Optimize Architecture "Towards a new plumbing code" Slide 22: On left, CenterPoint Energy "Save Energy, Save Hot Water; On right, InsteadofDishes.com "Low-Flow Shower Heads" Slide 24: EcoFriend "Smart Products that make Bathrooms Water Efficient" Slide 26: Gov of Canada "Wise Water Use" Slide 27: On left, Houzz "Tiered Drought-Tolerant Pismo Beach Landscape" ; On right, Bonnie's Gardens Landscape Design in Orange County Slide 28: DZine Trip "Handmade Interactive Tower Designed to Collet Water in Rural Areas" Slide 29: On left, Inhabitat "MIT Develops Advanced Fog Harvest Material That Pulls 5x More Water From Thin Air; On right, DZine Trip "Handmade Interactive Tower Designed to Collet Water in Rural Areas Slide 30: On top, Clenera Blog "Westlands Solar Farms Completed; On bottom, Inhabitat "Los Angeles and Burbank to Buy Solar Power from Nevada Plant" Slide 31: Bloomberg "U.S. Creates 17 Zones for 'Faster' Solar-Farm Development Slide 32: On top, conceptualization of BDCP by Bureau of Reclamation, American Aqueduct, The Atlantic "American Aqueduct: the Great California Water Saga" ; On bottom left, Stop frames of the Planet "Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River, China; On bottom right, Wikipedia on Three Gorges Dam Slide 33: Mercury News "Water agency pays tribute to miners lost in tunnel blast 42 years ago"