Water from the Wilderness: Hetch Hetchy to San Francisco Bay

[Drunk Monk]

I watched this on PBS because Stacy said to stream it before our trip but I just found it here. 



It was a surprisingly engaging doc, especially the early attempts to get water to SF. I had heard fragments of this history before - I think I went on a field trip to the Water Temple as a school kid because I know I've been there and that's probably where I heard some of this. 

I was astonished to learn how good SF water quality is because Hetch Hetchy has such good water - basically snow melt coming down off granite. I've always said how good the water is while backpacking in Yosemite - best water in the world. And this doc confirms that. 

The Cruz is on a different reservoir - off the San Lorenzo. 

I may not be gobbling down Yose books like Greg the book glutton but at least I watched this. Now if I could only find my sierra bup.

[Greg]

Those Sierra Bups are hard to find.

I think I got a lot of information about HH and the bathtub ring from a campfire John Muir talk. Basically, a man pretended to be John Muir and gave speeches based on his writings.