"The ultimate removal of the reservoir would make possible the restoration of Valley a few miles from Yosemite Valley and, amazingly, a near twin of that extraordinary gift of nature." 

Carl Boronkay  - former General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

We were also very pleased when the Modesto Bee published our editorial opinion, Come Hell or Low Water, on groundwater last week.

Our Fall 2017 Newsletter is available. It has been delivered to mail boxes and is also posted online.

Turlock and Modesto are a world apart from San Francisco when it comes to pricing Tuolumne River water supplies

Who doesn't pay their fair share for using national parks?

San Francisco, that's who!             

San Francisco pays only $30,000 per year to the federal government for its use of Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy - roughly the cost of a one bedroom apartment in the City.  In addition to its meager "rent", San Francisco also pays for the costs of security, watershed protection, trail maintenance etc. These operational costs would generally be necessary, however, even if the City owned the Tuolumne River watershed.

Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy: Why National Parks?

 Filmmaker David Vassar presentation at 

Livermore's Bankhead Theater 

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 

Rave reviews for Justin Rall's "Two Yosemites"

  the famous camping trip that had a monumental effect on America

19.5 Trillion Gallons in Four Days

Comparing floods in Texas and California