Water from the Wilderness: San Francisco’s Water Supply Post 1906 and in the Era of Climate Change
The Commonwealth Club hosts this screening of “Water from the Wilderness,” a new documentary by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jim Yager about O’Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Over 100 years ago, no one might have imagined putting a dam in a national park. But San Francisco did just that after the 1906 earthquake and fire. But can our Hetch Hetchy water and energy systems survive a changing climate?