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Newsom quietly signed a bill late Friday that moves $1.9 billion for the $4.4 billion Water System Improvement Program. The water system siphons water from Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. The plan, according to reports, will "upgrade the water system that supplies more than two million people in the San Francisco Bay Area with drinking water" and keep up hydrated, moisturized, and bathed clean in case of a major earthquake or drought.
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Woo job security for civil engineers. :-)
forget it, jake. it's chinatown.
I thought SF Water 'leases' hetch hetchy. Doesn't SF get all the money from every system that takes water from hetch hetchy?
oh ho ho ho, benmullin333 you're a riot. do you work for the bay guardian by any chance? even if not, you might want to become governor before saying anything more about the raker act. it's kind of a hot button.
And he said he quit drinking.
While they're at it, now here's an idea. If so many millions of cubic feet of water is moving down these pipes, fed by gravity, why aren't we generating electricity from it?
I mean, like, duh.