uh and approach the challenges uh with a laser like recognition that you can't focus this state as a one size fits all solution, meaning we have to target our solutions. Regionally, truly parts of the state are in extreme conditions like this. Other parts of our state are not experiencing the kind of extreme conditions that we're experiencing here in Northern California as a consequence, will be signing an executive order today. That spells that out more of an iterative framework, a framework that recognizes unique characteristics that persist and exist in different parts of the state of California. Now, what's occurring here in the state of California is not necessarily unique to the state of California. The drought conditions persist across the West coast of the United States. Uh by estimates just a few weeks ago, 77% of the West coast of the United States is in what is referred to as a mega drought recently. There's been emergency proclamations, declarations, and emergency preparations that have been extended by governors all up and down the west coast of the United States. Places like Iowa, not just our neighboring states to the north, like Oregon. Uh, states like texas, uh, states like north Dakota that are struggling uh through extreme uh drought conditions as well. Uh in many ways California is doing a little bit better then some of the other Western states and I don't say that lightly. I say that quite specifically, we have a Western states collaborative, it was established uh through this pandemic and we're engaging in a consistent basis, not only exchanging best practices and ideas to address the issues of covid, uh but also now beginning to transition those conversations On sharing best practices as it relates to droughts and managing under these difficult and challenging environments. Were year two Into this drop. I want to put that in perspective. It was year two That then governor Jerry Brown in 2013 in May Announced a similar action to the action that I'm taking. That was the second year of what became a five year drought in state of California 2012-2016. We've barely been out Of those drought conditions and here we are entering back in to these drought conditions as the governor did in 2013 will be organizing a similar strategy on the basis of his experience and the experience of the team that was also representing the Brown administration during that last drought. That is here advising us on this drought in their formal roles in various departments will be advancing a executive order today around drought preparation and we will be declaring in a targeted manner a drought emergency here in Mendocino County and in cinema counties. We have a emergency declaration, an emergency order that allows us to build an executive order that allows us to build an iterative manner as conditions persist and present themselves to add other counties to that list as necessary. But we are taking a sequential approach. We're taking a targeted approach and we're taking approach based upon actual conditions on the ground. Again, California many parts one body, not just the water system, and we have to recognize the distinctive issues that persist in various parts of the state of California. This action follows a series of actions the state has been taking over the course of the last many, many months, uh, in november last year we dusted off our drought task force. We organized and convened an internal team represented by the folks you see on your left on my right, that began the process of new, of looking at strategies as it relates to, uh easing our regulatory framework, making available strategies and techniques to address in real time the changing conditions that were anticipated even as far back as november in the beginning of the rainy season. Uh that would lead us here today. We also did not hesitate going back over a year to put out a new vision for water management. I identified a problem, But we also identified over 100 specific actionable strategies and solutions to address the needs of a changing environment, address the needs that we need to advance as it relates to climate change. Uh We put out a new water portfolio strategy, a new vision for water management in the state of California, hundreds and hundreds of hours of work, regional state federal partners as well as private as well as philanthropic support. We put that water portfolio strategy out. We put it out for public review. We got enormous amount of input and we formalized our drought with an official report that was put out a number of months ago. I encourage people to take a look at that report those that are looking for concrete strategies and solutions on issues from groundwater replenishment to conduct of use to issues of storage in all its forms and manifestations above ground and below ground water recycling, toilet to tap strategies, issues around efficiency and conservation and new flex strategies that are incorporated many of those ideas and principles in the emergency proclamation that we are putting out today.