Wednesday, June 11, 1975

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San Mateo County is rapidly approaching a water crisis, but few Peninsula cities have expressed much interest in long range water management to assure the faucets keep running. At least this is the opinion of Edward Morey, chairman of the Peninsula Water Agency, who along with other water management experts conducted a panel discussion Tuesday night on the "Future of Water in San Mateo County." The meeting, sponsored by the Environmental Quality Coordinating Council, was held at Millbrae City Hall. As chairman of the PWA. formed in 1969 by the Board of Supervisors, Morey has been charged with designing a master water plan for the county by 1977. The first phase of the plan was presented to the Board of Supervisors and to the individual cities' council members last January. Morey said he had asked the council in each city to make it known to residents in their communities the county could run out of water by the year 1990, and to ask residents to suggest various alternatives on how the PWA could work to forestall such a disaster. He also requested that each council forward what it learned to the PWA. Morey said so far he has received comments on the first phase from only four cities. "I have experienced frustration after frustration in attempting to get people interested in solving the problem we face in the future with our basic resource water." Morrv said.

Interest in Water Runs Downhill

The first phase of the plan, according to panelist Walter Schulz, of a consulting firm retained by the PWA to draw up the plan. was to project supply and demand of water in the future. Demand was based on projected population and other factors. The first phase Schultz said divided the county into two parts: the bayside urban areas, including Pacifica and Half Moon Bay and the rural portion of the county west of Skyline Boulevard. Schultz said 99 per cent of the county's residents reside in one-half of the county, and the San Francisco Water Department Schulz explained that today San Mateo County uses one-third of the water of the San Francisco Water Department. This, he admitted, is adequate for our needs now. but ventured that the county's allocation would decrease in the future as other counties using San Francisco water, including Santa Clara and Alameda. demand more for their residents. Morey's concern centered on the prevailing attitude of several San Francisco supervisors that San Mateo County should pay more for the use of its water. "Some San Francisco supervisors are or pipeline from the Stanislaus River. Schulz admitted there would be many problems connected with development of most of the alternative sources, notably the pressure from conservationists in damming the creeks, and the cost involved in the desalination process. Another panelist, Fred Lyon, a representative of the Committee for Green Foothills, expanded on what he believed would be the attitudes of many of the county's conservationists regarding development of alternative sources of water. Lyon explained that in the past conservationists have opposed most water supply

Master Plan Details Sources

supplies 90 per cent of the water allocated this county to the urban areas. "That supply on which we have been so dependent, is quite extensive but. we don't know of a way we can continue to get the water we will need in the future," he said. Shultz also noted that Coastside communities now do not have a dependable supply of water. "It's my opinion that right now there are public health problems, on the coast, especially during peak days of recreational use." Both Schulz and Morey expressed some concern over the future of the county's use of the San Francisco water supply. upset with our county's attitude toward their airport and their jail in San Bruno. It seems clear that their intent is to turn the tide in their favor, when it comes to supplying us with water. We have got to begin to address ourselves to this potential problem," Morey said. The first phase of the master water plan details alternative sources of water tor the county and these include, according to Schultz: damming of the San Gregorio and Pescadero Creeks; the further tapping of ground water and other local run-offs; the use of reclaimed water; desalination; and the construction of a fourth "barrel" developments because of their effects on the environmental and their potential for inducing population growth. Lyon suggested that a plan be designed to supply adequate water to the county without damaging the environment and without inducing growth. Although Lyon admitted this may be difficult, he said it could be accomplished if the plan is disseminated to all local interest groups and if members of these groups were allowed to comment frealy on the plan. "If this plan is not widely disseminated," Lyon warned, "an Alaskan Pipeline situation will arise."

Because development of alternative sources of water in the county would be extremely costly and because even if the county opted to dam the Coastside creeks, the county only would generate about 15 per cent of the 100 million gallons it consumes daily, the PWA is leaning toward recommending development of one project the fourth barrel from the Stanislaus River. This would mean San Mateo County would have to continue using San Francisco water. Currently San Francisco operates three barrels from the river. Water from the river used to flow into the Crystal Springs Reservoir, then be pumped into San Francisco then back to San Mateo County. Now water flows directly to San Francisco via a bypass pipeline. The run-off flows into Crystal Springs. It is Morey's opinion that by the late 1980s and early 1990s these three pipes will be unable to carry sufficient water to supply San Francisco plus the other counties using its water. One resident present in the audience, expressed some concern that the first plan would be implemented without a thorough review of the project's impact on the environment. The fourth panelist. Bill Powers, assistant county planning director, assured the woman, an environmental impact statement would be filed before the plan was adopted.

Samuel Chandler

Women. 'Dirnwitted?9
Wow! Our review of Helen Andelin s books, "Fascinating Girl" and "Fascinating Woman" brought the ladies out with long and flashing daggers. It seems that the "girls" want to be loved for what they are and not for how they paint their faces, or how they display their charms. One scoffer called to mumble, "I want to be known for a mind that's classy, not for how I've learned to flip my chassy." With all this in mind we bring you "The Manipulated Man," which isn't about men as much as women. In it Esther Vilar writes that "Women do not use their mental capacity: they deliberately let it disintegrate. After a few years of sporadic training, they revert to a state of irreversible torpor." She charges that in today's society the typical woman has become "a dimwitted, parasitic luxury item," and furthermore to maintain her condition she enslaves the men about her, forever using their knowledge, their power, their brawn, even their insecurities to provide for her. Hence, "he on)y feels safe as her slave, and her slave alone." Esther Vilar writes that today's man is programmed to impress women, therefore he wears a suit that looks like a uniform. In fact he is so conditioned he is happy to let his woman buy his clothes for him. His whole life is spent in an endeavor to please his woman. To make her happy he invents appliances, cars, cake mixes, telephones, televisions, all of which rob her of any purpose for living except to impress other women. MAN BEING the slave must impress his mistress, but woman must struggle for the impossible "the recognition, admiration, and love of other women." As a result "only women exist in a woman's world. The women she meets at church, at parent-teacher meetings, or in the supermarket; the women with whom she chats over the garden fence; the women at parties or window shopping in the more fashionable streets . . . these are the measure of her success." The up-shot of it all according to Vilar is modern women are not satisfied. They long for the liberation of their minds and their energies. They do not want to "conquer their men." as Andelin suggests. They are tired of painting their faces and doing their hair to keep forever childlike and of raising and training their children as a means of e n t h r a l l i n g their men. In short they see the "manipulation and exploitation of their men as a vicious circle." But will woman break the system. Vilar doesn't think so. "There is no compelling reason why she should. It is useless to appeal to her feelings, for she is callous and knows no pity. And so the world will go on. sinking deeper and deeper into the morass of kitsch, barbarism, and inanity called femininity. And many, that wonderful dreamer, will never awaken from his dream." Esther Vilar, author of "The Manipulated Man" makes her observation from a world wide experience as a physician in Germany, as a psychologist and a sociologist in America and Europe. Her theories of social changes that are necessary have been called a new chapter in the relationship between the sexes. Other reviews hold that she states facts that are disturbingly true. Still others find her cynical and funny and often wrong-headed, short-sighted and limited to vast undocumented generalizations. Perhaps the best review, it must have been a man states, "I didn't like Ms. Vilar's book at first. But as I went on. I reluctantly liked it better."

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A series of meetings to present proposed bus routes tor South San Francisco have been set up for next Monday and Wednesday, according to City Planner David Halo. On Monday, five meetings are scheduled. Times and locations are as follows: 1 p.m. at Rotary Plaza, 433 Alida Way; 2:30 p.m. St. Paul's Methodist Church. 500 Miller Ave.: 4 p.m. Senior Citizens Center. 230 Grand Aviv; 7 p.m. Orange Avenue Library. 840 W. Orange Avcv . and 8:30 p.m. Westborough Junior High School, 257 West borough Blvd. One meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 p m. ;it El Camino High School Little Theater. 1320 Mission Road.

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