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As Presented In The Scoping Plan:
Water is the lifeblood of our State and economy, and integrally
connected to our food supply and energy systems. With the
declaration of a drought emergency, the State needs to employ a
range of approaches that will cut emissions, maximize efficiency
and conservation, and enhance water quality and supply reliability,
while also addressing growing climate resiliency requirements.
A greater focus on integrated policy design in the water sector is
needed as California implements strategies that will support our
State’s longer-term climate objectives. State policy 
and regulatory frameworks must be developed that allow for, and
incentivize, effective regional integrated planning and
implementation. We need to employ pricing policies that will
maximize efficiency and conservation efforts in the water sector,
and put in place mandatory conservation measures to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and maintain water supply reliability
during drought periods.

Last year California commercial buildings and industry and the
electricity producing power plants consumed approximately 1.8
Trillion cu.ft of natural gas. Approximately 60% of this combusted
natural gas was wasted and blown up chimneys across the state as
Hot exhaust. This does not help us in our battle against global
warming. This heat energy can be recovered with technologies,
making this heat energy available for a variety of different
applications.
Natural gas can be utilized to near 100% energy efficiency.
The US Department of Energy states that for every 1 million Btu's
of heat energy that is recovered from this combusted exhaust and is
utilized, 117 lbs of CO2 will not be put into the atmosphere.
In every 1 million Btu's of combusted natural gas are 5 gallons of
distilled water. The IEA just put out a report stating that if 20%
of the water is recovered from a power plants exhaust, the power
plant would be self sustaining. If more than 20% was recovered the
power plant could be a water supplier.

This is something that California should be placing more importance
on to reducing global warming and CO2 emissions and helping to
conserve our water.