Hetch Hetchy Water’s Epic Journey, From Mountains to Tap

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Take a journey with the Bay Area's drinking water -- from mountain to tap. Reported by Sarah Craig. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour, Ryan Levi and Suzie Racho. Additional support from Julia McEvoy, Ethan Lindsey, Howard Gelman. Holly Kernan is Vice President for News. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question or sign up for our newsletter at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:03.7	If you're one of the 3 million Bay Area residents who gets your drinking water from the
0:08.2	Hetchy Reservoir, you may have heard of your water's crystal clear reputation.
0:14.0	It comes from pristine mountain snow that's stored in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park,
0:22.0	and it travels more than 150 miles to get here.
0:26.0	It's this journey that 8 year old Alex Cornblum and his dad Heath are curious about.
0:31.0	How long does it take for water to get
0:33.9	from Hedgee to San Francisco?
0:36.5	And how far does it really go?
0:38.4	Yeah, even Google doesn't know the answer
0:41.1	to that question.
0:42.6	Isn't that crazy?
0:43.9	Then the questions just snowballed from there.
0:46.6	How many rivers feed into Hedge,
0:48.9	hench, henchy down? How long would it take to walk the same distance?
0:51.2	Why is it called Hedge, Hetchy?
0:53.2	What's so Hetchy about Hetch?
0:54.4	That's kind of funny data.
0:56.6	I like that joke.
0:57.8	This is quite the list, but Alex, he cut us a little bit of slack.
1:02.0	You don't have to answer all of them.
1:04.0	I mean, some of them are better than others.
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