San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and SFPUC General Manager Susan Leal take viewers through the legendary past of engineer Michael O'Shaughnessy's Hetch Hetchy Water System with historic images of early San Francisco - from the Gold Rush days and the 1906 earthquake and fire through the construction of the most advanced water system of its time. After almost seven decades of providing high quality water and sustaining a growing Bay Area economy, the SFPUC is now commencing one of the largest water system improvement programs to seismically upgrade and rebuild its infrastructure and ensure its success for the next century.

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Hetch Hetchy Water System - Legendary Past, Visionary Future