Compare that hideous thing to how we celebrated water 90 years ago. This is the Plugas Water Temple in Redwood City, California built in 1934 to commemorate the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct bringing water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located at the aqueduct's terminus. The temple has a circle of fluted Corinthian columns surmounted by a large masonry ring bearing the inscription
"I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people" [from Isaiah 43:20]. There is a reflecting pool lined with cypress trees.
