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Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Era of Climate Change

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A long wall stretches across the right side holding back a huge lake with mountains rising behind.
The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park on May 2, 2023. This reservoir provides water to much of the Bay Area. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

For the last 102 years, the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park has supplied millions of Bay Area residents with some of the cleanest water in the country. But climate change has made it harder to manage the reservoir.


This episode originally aired on May 10, 2023.

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