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7 A -X <br />DRAFT URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN <br />2. Water Supply <br />Overview <br />This chapter describes the City's existing and planned sources of water supply. Currently, <br />the City receives 100% of its potable water supply from the Hetch Hetchy regional water <br />system operated for the City and County of San Francisco by the San Francisco Public <br />Utilities Commission ( SFPUC). The Master Water Sales Contract with the City and <br />County of San Francisco for Hetch Hetchy water is scheduled to expire July 1, 2009. <br />Redwood City's interest is to maximize the reliability of water supplies received from <br />this source (discussed in Chapter 3) while minimizing its costs (discussed in Chapter 5). <br />In the future, the City has no specified water supply projects it has committed to. It is <br />exploring, however, ways it might augment Hetch Hetchy supplies by the other sources <br />shown in Figure 2 -1. One option is water conservation as described in Chapter 1. <br />Another option is recycling wastewater for outdoor irrigation. Other options including <br />transfers of waters within the Hetch Hetchy system, or from other external new supplies <br />transported (wheeled) through the SFPUC system. However, there are institutional, legal, <br />water quality, and engineering impediments to this course. The newly formed Bay Area <br />Water Supply and Conservation Agency may facilitate procurement of new supplies in <br />the future. <br />9 The City does not use groundwater and no plans exist to use groundwater in the future. <br />16 <br />