From K-QED.

Hello everybody, I'm Olivia Allen Price, this is Bay Curious, and we're on episode two in our

state of drought series.

Every single day, probably, I don't know 20 times a day, I turn on a faucet here at my home in San Mateo.

My kitchen sink, my shower, a garden hose, and the water always flows. There's no uncertainty for me and there never

has been. Even though I am one of the millions of Californians who live on land that doesn't naturally have enough water to sustain us.

But somehow, the water keeps flowing.

For most of us in the Bay Area, the journey that our water takes is hidden from view.

It travels long distances, sometimes more than a hundred miles,

rain that first fell on land that we've never heard of,

traveling through bodies of water that we've never seen. That can leave us, the

water drinkers, the shower takers, disconnected from the source.

We go about our days oblivious to how precarious our water resources might be.

Today we're going to answer what seems like a really simple question. Where does our water

come from? Because where your city gets its water has a lot to do with how you're experiencing the drought right now.

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All right I'm about to hit you with some numbers.

Within the nine counties that make up the Bay Area, there are 7.7 million people living in more

than 101 cities and towns, covered by more than 50 water agencies.

So needless to say, our water comes from a lot of different places.

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