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New West Magazine (1980): Saving Yosemite and Restoring Hetch Hetchy
New West Magazine highlighted "Saving Yosemite" 45 years ago with a thoughtful and provocative article by journalist Tom DeVries that included...
Hydropower and Our Rivers
Electricity is part of our daily lives. We need to use it wisely and do what we can to diminish the harm from its production. The transition from...
Double-blind Water Taste Test Favors East Bay and Marin over San Francisco
We continue to hear that Hetch Hetchy Valley shouldn't be restored because San Francisco's water quality is exceptional. We have never believed this...
(Water) Market Challenges in Diablo Grande
Diablo Grande is running out of water. How and why does this happen? Diablo Grande is a small, recently built community of 1600 people, nestled in...
Progress – “good and sufficient supply of water for camp purposes” at last
Hooray, after only 114 years (sarcasm fully intended), San Francisco will be providing drinkable water to the campground at Hetch Hetchy! The...
Hetch Hetchy’s legacy and preventing the sale of public lands
Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley lies underwater. Our mission is to relocate the reservoir so we can return the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite...
What they’re saying about Hetch Hetchy
It's always nice when folks support restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park - even if their approach is a bit different from...
Yosemite Deserves Better, And So Do We (unpublished op ed)
Friends: After talking with the SF Chronicle reporter who wrote about the National Park Service's "unsatisfactory" rating of its concessionaire,...
2025 Spring Newsletter and Robel Fessehatzion Art
Our Spring 2025 Newsletter has been delivered to mailboxes is also posted online here. If you would like a printed copy but have not received one,...
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