[SmithL]

You can tell this isn't a drought year, or we wouldn't be having this silly conversation.

[ZGuy]

Restore Hetch Hetchy and legislate that San Francisco may not have an alternate water supply -- the best of both worlds.

[Paleo Conservative]

I wonder where all the refugees from San Francisco would go. That's where they get their water.

[ikka]

Won't the place look like crap after being underwater for 82 years? How will it look anything like Yosemite?

[Walkingfeather]

damn I wish I had thought of that! great point.

[evolved_rage]

IIRC, DiFi started a trend when she was mayor of SF of using money to maintain the pipes to Hech-Hechy for social programs. A bad trend followed by later mayors, leaving roughly a $1 billion in deferred maintenance. Are they using this study as a means of diverting attention away from squandering the original maintenance money??

[avg_freeper]

The goal is not to take a position, but to gather information.

sigh.....

[null and void]

We should dam Yosemite, and open Hetch Hechty. Every 25-50 years switch back...

[ApplegateRanch]

Go for it!

And, when its restored, keep the riffraff public out, so they don't sully its new pristinity with their foul, unnatural footprints and polluting exhalations. Instead, set up eco-friendly viewpoints with coin-op telescopes far away; better yet, use a satellite to send live-cam images to computers & TVs.

NV, CO, ID, OR, WA, AZ, and maybe a few other states, still have some water Californicators haven't stolen yet; let them make up the difference. It's about time they pulled their weight, and truly sacrificed for the common good of SoCal lawns.

Maybe divert some from those damned, Central Valley parasitic farmers, who are so lazy and selfish, they would rather pour water on their fields, than buy their food at the supermarket like normal people.

Also get rid of all those wasteful dairies, and send the saved water to Frisco, and let everyone drink soy-milk, like PETA intended.

[tom h]

"Hetch Hetchy restoration discussed"

Hetch Hetchy is the reason that the SF region has the sweetest-tasting water in the entire state of California.

[Our man in washington]

I'm very much against this. If we cut off water to San Francisco, then 100 percent of the population would be non-bathers, which is nearly double the current percentage.

[socal_parrot]

Hetch Hetchy Valley in 1908...

Hetch Hetchy Lake present day (looks like the same view)...