Hetch Hetchy is a sacrifice. A hundred years ago they built a dam across this high Sierra glacial valley to create a water source for San Francisco. Buried beneath this watery grave is a valley every bit as magnificent as world famous Yosemite Valley seventeen miles southeast as the crow flies. John Muir fought it, but he lost. At least they had the grace to delay construction till he died. But everything we all love about San Francisco-the culture, the terrain, the history, cable cars, Chinatown, Lombard Street, the chase scene from Bullitt, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Haight-Ashbury, Fisherman’s Wharf, Alcatraz, City Lights Bookstore, the Golden Gate Bridge, all of it-none of it would have happened without this water. In many ways the story of the West is the story of water, and Hetch Hetchy is one of its most poignant chapters.
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