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New York Times: It is one of the oldest environmental battles in the United States, and it involves one of the country’s most famous national parks, one of its most liberal cities, leaders of Silicon Valley and a perennial source of conflict in California: water. In 1913, Congress approved the construction of a dam and an eight-mile-long reservoir, called Hetch Hetchy, in the northwest corner of Yosemite National Park to supply cheap water to San Francisco. But the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which submerged a valley......
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United States: Hetch Hetchy Valley Measure Pits Bay Area Against Environmentalists
Posted by New York Times: Norimitsu Onishi on September 10th, 2012
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