On October 30, 2008 the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
(SFPUC) approved a $4.4 billion Water System Improvement Program (WSIP)
that will upgrade the Hetch Hetchy system to enable it to withstand a
major earthquake. As part of the WSIP, the SFPUC had been proposing to divert an additional 25 million gallons of water per day from the Tuolumne River, but in the end, after a multi-year campaign by the Bay Area Water Stewards (a coalition of environmental groups which is coordinated by the Tuolumne River Trust) the SFPUC finally adopted a "Phased WSIP" alternative, in which they agreed to cap water sales at current levels until at least 2018.
This is a major victory for the wild and scenic Tuolumne River and the first time the SFPUC has had a cap on water sales. View WSIP Campaign Archive
