Hetch Hetchy is an icy valley in California; the valley obtains its water from O’Shaughnessy Dam by a reservoir named “Hetch Hetchy Reservoir”. California has been dealing with the problems of water-delivery network for quite some time now and there is a need of more dams in the region.
Several other dams have to be built yet to provide proper delivery of water in the region, water from these dams will serve many regions including San Francisco, and will generate electrical energy for San Francisco. There is a warning from water manager of San Francisco and East Bay water that the state’s water system might have an upshot of water deficiency up to the dangerous level in the Bay Area and most probably destabilize more than 100 years old water rights. The East Bay Municipal service District and The San Francisco Commission of Public Utilities have been serving collectively to fulfill the needs, at least 3.6 million.
Last month, the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, refused to sign any major renovation of the water system without funds for reservoirs and new dams. The governor has the favor of conservatives and the Central Valley, where a lot of farmers are influenced that new-fangled artificial lakes will help to equalize dry spells and alleviate the federal laws that have engrave water pumped in the course of the sick Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
There are three big projects on the way that expectedly, would not impose the ecological destruction of past dams. These projects are the extension of Los Vaqueros Reservoir in Contra Costa County, the control Flat dam on the San Joaquin River over Friant Dam, and some Sites Reservoir. The basic purposes as the Department of Water Resources explain is “water would be pumped to the artificial lake, and there it would be utilized into the delta or allocate deeper and colder reservoirs to seize back water for dangerous salmon flows.”
Supporters of Reservoir say “sites presents the finest of all worlds”. And that they appear to be resolute to ensure these Sites and parallel projects build it into a water legislation package.
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
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