Any article about corporate consumption of public water in California feels a little silly without reference to San Francisco's $30k/year right to Hetch Hetchy.

Any article about corporate consumption of public water in California feels a little silly without reference to San Francisco's $30k/year right to Hetch Hetchy. Yosemite Valley's neighboring valley, on a national park that every American pays for, is flooded and destroyed and San Francisco doesn't even pay enough to even cover the human maintenance of the land, let alone the benefit they get from the water.