This is the bi-weekly email of SFWATER.ORG the official website of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. We supply water to the San Francisco Bay Area, treat Wastewater for the City of San Francisco and produce Power at three locations in Northern California.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Susan Leal today announced a new effort to partner with Lennar BVHP to create San Francisco’s first neighborhood powered entirely by clean, renewable energy.      Read more 

8/23/06 Agenda Special Meeting San Francico Public Utilities Commission This is the Agenda of the Special meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on August 23, 2006.    Read more

SFPUC Tackles Impacts of Climate Change on Bay Area Water, Energy Supplies At a special public hearing of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) today, General Manager Susan Leal and members of the Commission outlined the first steps of a plan to tackle what can be done locally and regionally to prepare the utility and its customers for the expected impacts of global climate change on the SFPUC’s water, wastewater and power services.  Initial steps include engaging national climate change experts to study the potential effects of reduced snowpack, rising seas and hotter temperatures on the SFPUC’s water supplies, wastewater collection and energy generation as well as hosting a “Coastal Cities Summit” in 2007 to develop common regional and coastal solutions to prepare for the effects of climate change, also known as global warming.    Read more