Hetch Hetchy - Yosemite's Lost Valley - Part 1 of 3

This is the first half of the complete video created by Restore Hetch Hetchy in 2003. After viewing this video, be sure to view Part 2. Part 3 is the closing credits.

Buy the DVD of this video online at: http://www.hetchhetchy.org/

Narrated by Shari Belafonte, the film features brilliant footage and photographs of Hetch Hetchy's great granite walls and booming waterfalls, Tueeulala and Wapama. The film focuses on Restore Hetch Hetchy's mission for a "win-win" restoration of Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley, and is now available on both VHS and DVD formats.

The film features informative interviews Dr. Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind, and former Interior Secretary Don Hodel. In 1988, Secretary Hodel proposed Hetch Hetchy's restoration and commissioned a preliminary study by the Bureau of Reclamation to explore "win-win" restoration options.

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[sharonafox1]

Thank you for this wonderful video. God Bless.

[sharonafox1]

@nsousa817 San Francisco doesn't even use all the water as your post says...it makes money off of selling off some of the water to others.

[lukebccb]

Any person that uses the water from Hetch Hetchy who calls themselves environmentalists and yet opposes the removal of Hetch Hetchy dam has no "environmental" credibility whatsoever. None.

[nsousa817]

Hetch Hetchy holds less than 1% of all stored water in CA.

The SF Public Utilities stores less than 20% of the water it manages in Hetch Hetchy. The other 80% is stored in 8 other reservoirs.

Raising Don Pedro Reservoir, located on the Tuolumne River near Sonora, could store all the water from Hetch Hetchy if it were raised less than 30 feet. This would inundate about a mile of the Tuolumne Wild and Scenic River, but restore more than 8 miles of the river in Hetch Hetchy Valley.

[guyfroml]

I am a conservative and registered Republican and even I agree the daming of Hetch Hetchy valley was and still is a big bust. There were alternatives back then and still exist today that would use less fresh water. Contractor friends of certain San Francisco politicians made millions from the dam's present location compared to alternatives. I say return it to its former state.

[bmp713]

The central valley farmers use 80% of California's water supply. 80% of that water is lost to evaporation by watering crops with sprinklers. If crops were watered from underground pipes and drip irrigation farming water consumption would drop DRAMATICALLY, California would easily be able to sustain several times its current population.

[janicesoprano]

The damming of Hetch Hetchy makes me sick to my stomach. I lived and worked in Yosemite Valley for three years, but I never went to Hetch Hetchy, I just did not want to see it. Hopefully, this magnificent valley will be restored. And I pray that it will not be the tourist attraction that Yosemite Valley has become. We need to restore our precious wilderness for the generations to come. Come on, Governor Arnold, do something!