Yes, Norcal spent decades wagging fingers at SoCal about this. There were books like Cadillac Desert.

Meanwhile, San Francisco drinks clean glacier water that a valley in Yosemite was destroyed to provide this and they refuse to repurpose a downstream damn that has enough capacity to do it.

Physician, heal thyself.

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Melatonic an hour ago | parent [-]

Crystal Springs isnt anywhere near Yosemite if that is what you are referencing. That being said it supposedly was gorgeous and almost as amazing before being filled with water

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jsLavaGoat 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not Crystal Springs. Hetch Hetchy, the damning of which legendarily caused John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club, to die of a broken heart.

	▲	stouset 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It’s a nitpick but the words you are looking for are “dam”, “dammed”, and “damming”. Damning is a very different thing entirely.

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dontlikeyoueith an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

They are referring to Hetch Hetchy.