Upgrading San Francisco’s Aging Pipes During Drought Years

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San Francisco's Stockton tunnel is shut down due to a water main break in March 2014. Creative Commons image by Flickr user toyzrus8

By Audrey Dilling, KALW Crosscurrents

The Hetch Hetchy Regional Water system, operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission , carries water to 2.6 million customers in the Bay Area. How it does that is remarkable – remarkably simple, said the agency’s Water Resources Manager, David Briggs.

“Because it’s gravity driven, largely,” Briggs said, “the Romans, if they were here today, they could probably understand how our system works.”

Read the complete story at KALW Crosscurrents.

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