HOW PRISTINE IS THE HETCH HETCHY WATER? WHY DOES THE SF PUBLIC UTILITIES NOT RELEASE MORE WATER INTO THE TUOLUMNE RIVER? WHO IS LYING ABOUT THE STATE OF AFFAIRS?

 

The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is close to Yosemite National Park.

We have had several workshops with some stellar and astute advocates who love nature and our rivers - to reveal the many deficiencies linked to the operations of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the Hetch Hetch Reservoir.

The wisdom of the indigenous people is left out in these discussions - contaminated with greed and a lack of empathy for the situation at hand. The SF Public Utilities Commission is kicking the can down the street.

The salmon need the water - the hatcheries say they can help - the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission could care less about the salmon.

The Raker Act of 1913 was negotiated to provide water to the parties who needed water for irrigation - clean drinking water for San Francisco - the 1906 Earthquake caught the City and County a lesson - we needed water - and we did not have it.

Powerful politicians ganged up on John Muir - whose heart was in the right place. Today, the SF Public Utilities Commission - seems to know everything. Their arrogance and ignorance are second to none.

The SF Public Utilities Commission does not pay keen attention to the advocates - and this circus cannot go on forever.

Water is Life. We here in San Francisco know that a third of the Hetch Hetchy water is sold to Big Corporations.

The clean drinking water often is contaminated - after it is used to cool operations - be it in the Computer industry - or other industries - the contaminated water - adversely impacts the Watershed.

The recent times - here in San Francisco - groundwater is added - and when this is done - the pristine water from Hetch Hetchy is compromised.

Spiritually speaking, the indigenous tribes, be it the Miwok, the Piutes, or the Mono tribe - consider the water from the confluence of the rivers in and around the Tuolumne river - Sacred. 

Those greedy have NO right to call the water we drink in San Francisco pristine. Often times it stinks, and I have brought this fact to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Read this article to know more:

https://sfpuc.org/about-us/our-systems/storage-and-delivery-updates

San Francisco receives its clean drinking water from 1600 miles away - few know about this fact. The water was stolen from the indigenous people. Today we use clean drinking water to flush our toilet and have the audacity to deprive the salmon - by failing to release water from the Hetch Hetchy dam into the Tuolumne River.

We have one thousand two hundred miles of clean water - and only forty percent of those pipes have been replaced.

We, the taxpayers, were promised that the data would be given to us from time to time - in the last two and half years - no mention of the replacement linked to clean drink water pipes.

We know that many of the sixty percent of the drinking pipes leak - leech into the ground.

Those in authority do not know they are lying when they do not conserve millions of gallons of clean drinking water.

San Franciscans conserve water - so much so - that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission - knows this affects their budget - the people save the arrogant authorities - squander.

Hetch Hetchy Reservoir - with its granite walls.

Read the article from one of the local papers to know more:

https://48hills.org/2022/04/does-sf-have-enough-water-to-give-some-back-to-the-salmon-and-the-ecosystem/

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is nonchalant - having no vision - wasting water - and this nonsense would have reached a chronic stage had Juliet Ellis been working for the SF Public Utilities Commission. 

Adding contaminated groundwater to Sacred pristine drinking water from Hetch Hetchy reservoir is a desecration of the highest order.

The SF Public Utilities Commission must respect the advocates - remember, John Muir is on our side. 

Listen to the wisdom and inherent experience of the indigenous tribes from the Hetch Hetchy area - one of the most beautiful valleys on Earth.

Now the Hetch Hetchy is inundated to serve the greed of some - who will fall flat on their face. These folks are non-indigenous and have no standards, morals, or ethics. Aho.