[ca-gw] Grey water Orginance

[Penelope Livingston]

Steve Panelli Chief Plumbing Inspector. 558-6058
Steven.Panelli at sfgov.org


Dear Mr. Panelli,

In the interest of moving forward to decrease stress on our existing  
fresh water supplies, I urge to to reconsider your decision to develop  
yet another permit process residents of San Francisco have to address  
in order to do something that would benefit the good of all. If we  
continue to create more unnecessary regulatory hoops for citizens to  
comply with, what is the incentive for people to concerve and reuse  
their water?

As you know, alot of rigorous thinking, planning and consideration has  
gone into this new greywater code. Stakeholders, experts in greywater  
reuse and regulatory departments are satisfied with the outcome and  
have come to agreement on this after long, arduous and detailed review  
of each line item.

What is your motivation is to rethink all of this and create  
additional requirments that will discourage any support or incentive  
for people to legally comply with city codes? Most people, therefore,  
will continue using fresh drinking water to water their landscape  
increasing cost, demand and stress to the SF Water Department.

I suggest you create policies that help provide creative insentives  
for people to reuse their water in as many ways as possible.

Please join the effort that the rest of California is taking to  
support water reuse and conservation.

Respectfully,

Penny Livingston
Regenerative Design Insitute
Marin County California,
www.regenerativedesign.org
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