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Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite’s Crowds
Visitors flocked to Hetch Hetchy last weekend as they did to all of Yosemite National Park. Long waits at entrance stations and full parking lots...
Mecia’s Picture – A View All Too Rare
It's a stunning shot, and a view rarely seen. Restore Hetch Hetchy board member Mecia Serafino scrambled 1800 vertical feet to the top of Kolana...
Restoring Hetch Hetchy – Old School “Environmentalism”
In The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism (2005), Historian Robert Righter recounts...
San Diego and the Water Business – mostly good
San Diego has an excess of water. So it is selling some of its supply to Las Vegas and Arizona. See the Wall Street Journal story "San Diego now has...
California snowpack in 2026 – low, but not terrible
Wednesday's headline in the The San Francisco Chronicle "California in for ‘ugly summer’ amid one of the worst snowpacks on record" was an attention...
San Francisco doesn’t need Hetch Hetchy now. But what about later?
Our most recent report, The Cherry Solution, demonstrates that San Francisco does not need Hetch Hetchy Reservoir for its water supply. With the...
The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy
Hetch Hetchy is a story that continues to fascinate. We focus on the opportunity for restoration - what it means for Yosemite National Park and how...
Water: Supply and Demand
Our Cherry Solutions report shows that, with reduced demand, San Francisco's Regional Water System would be extraordinarily reliable even if water...
Media – Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy could be drained without an impact to SF
It was great to see media coverage for our Cherry Solution report. The Fresno NBC and CBS affiliates posted Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy could be drained...
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