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San Francisco's tap water is pumped from Yosemite. It tastes great to me. There now enough water there for all of the Bay area, so in many municipalities (e.g.
by ilyagr 9y ago
San Francisco's tap water is pumped from Yosemite. It tastes great to me. There now enough water there for all of the Bay area, so in many municipalities (e.g. Sunnyvale, I think) water tastes terrible.
- ilyagr 9y agoIn case you haven't seen this before, worth a look: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy#Hetch_Hetchy_Project https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy#Hetch_Hetchy_Pr...
- toephu2 9y ago"Water from Hetch Hetchy is some of the cleanest municipal water in the United States; San Francisco is one of six U.S. cities not required by law to filter its tap water, although the water is disinfected by ozonation and, since 2011, exposure to UV.[58] The water quality is high because of the unique geology of the upper Tuolumne River drainage basin, which consists mostly of bare granite; as a result, the rivers feeding Hetch Hetchy Reservoir have extremely low loads of sediments and nutrients."