100 Years Later, San Francisco Water War Rages On
From the San Francisco Examiner:
“It is perhaps the mother of all California water wars, and it’s been raging for more than a century.
“The most decisive defeat in the fight over damming the Tuolumne River in Hetch Hetchy Valley occurred 100 years ago today when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act. That gave San Francisco the right to build the O’Shaughnessy Dam in a place described by environmentalist John Muir as ‘one of God’s best gifts [that] ought to be faithfully guarded.’”
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