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HERKES: Only your opinion, though.
<br />SANTANGELO: Only in my opinion -
<br />HERKES: That's right.
<br />SANTANGELO: Is that it is an environmental issue, and it does involve everybody,
<br />and we keep taking it some place where I don't know that it should go. But again, a lot
<br />of it is administrative and stuff, and I'm just wondering how much we're supposed to
<br />deal with here, but thank you.
<br />RAY: Marni.
<br />HERKES: A couple of things. One, I would hate to think that my medical
<br />laboratory, when it's testing blood from forty different people, couldn't separate them,
<br />so I really think that's a specious argument. I mean, there are a lot of blood samples in
<br />a medical laboratory, and they're all kept separate. I think you can do the same thing
<br />with drinking water and sewer water. But, I'm glad you brought up the client because I
<br />keep thinking of this from a client standpoint, rather than from the Department of
<br />Water Supply, the Department of Public Works, or the Department of Sanitation, or
<br />those kinds of things. I'm your client, and I see the water over here, and I see the
<br />• wastewater over here, and the sewer's over here, and I think that's an inefficient way,
<br />from my viewpoint, to operate. I appreciate Mr. Sumada's comments about total
<br />resource management, and I think that is what we ought to be looking at. We ought to
<br />be looking at a department that manages our resources, that manages them in the best
<br />way possible. I would like a Department of Water Supply that said, oh, drinking water
<br />is over here, car washing water is over here, irrigation water is over here. And I think
<br />it's an inefficient - And you're right, we're unique, We're probably the most inefficient
<br />state in almost everything we do, but I think we can learn some efficiencies from some
<br />of those mainland people, and we can also save a lot of money. And it's important to us
<br />to save money right now, and be more efficient. So, I'd appreciate your really looking
<br />at combining the water resource department, and maybe sanitation, or maybe
<br />environmental should be in there somewhere, but 1 think that's a major concern, to be
<br />able to preserve our drinking water, is to use other water resources. Thank you.
<br />RAY: Just one comment in terms of overall resource management. Of
<br />course, I mean, there are a number of components that are also separate, and Milton
<br />brought up. Of course, agriculture water, and private water systems comprise, what
<br />would you say, what percentage of water usage on the island?
<br />PAVAO: I believe about 20-25%.
<br />RAY: So, you're talking about a pretty complex problem here.
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