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relates to population projections. We are serv- ing about 800,000 people at the present time and the projection in the year 2008 is on the basis of about 2.4 million people in the metropolitan area. I The third line - the dashed line - injects the reuse or return flow element into the water source. Initially we do not have the capability of injecting the 100,000 acre-feet that is shown there but we have put it in there as a potential capability and to a limited degree we do get some use out of that by exchange. But again, in future years, after this technique has been per- fected, then we put in the plants that would provide this additional supply of water to meet our needs and including the raw water and the reuse water, then we project our total available supply on the order of 800,000 acre-feet in the year 2008. This gives us a little surplus, a little more than the kind of surplus we are talking now but taken from a percentage stand- point it is not too far out of line. Consider- ing the fact that at that point we would have a little surplus, it means that we have to be planning in the 1990's and as far as 2000 for future projections based on available informa- tion that may be developed as to what will be done following that. So from this standpoint it means that future planning is as equally important in the 1990's and 2000's as it is now. I Now quic:dy, the raw water, of course, is the glamorous part of it. I mentioned that. But it takes a lot of other works too. It takes treatment plants, it takes transmission conduits and there are many people in our com- munity who do not realize that we have 96 inch conduits and 120 inch conduits, crisscrossing and going around through our community, These will have to be greatly expanded to deliver 600,000 acre-feet as compared with the 200,000 acre-feet we deliver now. The treatment facilities will have to be expanded. Present water reservoirs which provide on-site storage