Publication Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Every time they turn on the tap, 2.4 million people in four counties depend on San Francisco for the water that comes out.

Can they continue to?

The answer becomes more uncertain every day, as the next earthquake approaches, and San Francisco dithers over its responsibility to fix the aging system of pipes, pumps, tunnels and reservoirs that bring most of the Bay Area’s water 160 miles from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park.

Read more at The Almanac.