I don't buy bottled water

[cellboy]

Except for the water our business buys for staff and visitors, I don't purchase drinking water for my home personal use. My water is from the tap! For some odd reason though, I boil it on the stove, then pour it into a large glass container and refrigerate. I like it cold. Many years ago, my grandmother lived in the Central Valley, on a ranch, where her water was obtained from an well on the property. It tasted awful. So she boiled it to remove the harsh taste, then refrigerated it. And being in the hot Central Valley, cold water was always a treat. So maybe that's why I do it.

San Mateo County obtains it's water from Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and travels approximately 200 miles to Crystal Springs Reservoir, west of San Mateo, along the HWY 280 corridor. In fact much of the south end of the San Francisco Peninsula cities, get their water directly from the pipe or source before it ever reaches the reservoir. Making it one of the purist drinking water in the state!
Our quality of drinking water.

I love the San Francisco Peninsula. And SF too! :P

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[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

The system, completed in 1934, is a 167 mi (269 km) gravity-driven network of dams, reservoirs, tunnels, aqueducts and pipelines that delivers 239 million gallons per day or, 905 dam³ (734 acre·ft), from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir behind O'Shaughnessy Dam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy_Aqueduct

[cellboy.livejournal.com]

In some areas along the peninsula, you can see the pipe above ground (looks like the raised oil pipes in Alaska). In fact the pipe runs though the front part of the lawn area of the property that I manage. Our broken sewer pipe needs to be replaced and runs 3 ft over the underground steel and concrete water pipe. It has taken over 2 months to get the go ahead to change the sewer line (permits through the SF PUC (Public Utilities Commission). The land or easement that runs up and down the peninsula, and through our property is owned by the SF PUC