The Times’ 99-year Hetch Hetchy critique
Posted on | February 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
I love the New York Times for many reasons. This line from their editorial about Hetch Hetchy, the Yosemite reservoir serving Sacramento, is one of them:
Ninety-nine years ago, this newspaper argued against the construction of the dam. We lost, but the much bigger loss was nature’s.
That’s owning your heritage.
Related posts:
- The rent on Hetch Hetchy is not high enough
- Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere I: Big Think Nukes
- The Water-Energy Nexus
- Another Example of “The Nature Effect”
- Saving the Minnow
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Comments
2 Responses to “The Times’ 99-year Hetch Hetchy critique”
Leave a Reply
Recent Posts
- Groundwater mining in Saudi Arabia
- Another take on Colorado Basin failure mode concludes that Arizona and Nevada are the trouble spots
- Bass: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta solutions aren’t a question of science
- Another $10 bill on the sidewalk
- Another anthropogenic influence on sea level: groundwater pumping
February 18th, 2012 @ 11:46 pm
If we are expecting greater drought and floods with GW, then won’t we have to build more water storage capacity?
February 19th, 2012 @ 9:33 am
…psssst…sotto voce Hetch Hetchy serves San Francisco…
Ask me one day about my bike tour in the mountains around Yosemite (!) and climbing out of Tuolumne canyon past the gigantic pipes draining Hetch Hetchy.
Best,
D