What reservoir does your city or town draw it's potable water from?

One dam and two wells.

The Muese, ground water, and dune water.
In respective amounts.

”Dune water is drinking water which has been pumped up from the dunes. Fresh rainwater filters through the sandy dunes and floats on top of the salt water from where it can be pumped up, purified, and used as fresh drinking water.” How interesting!

@Dutchess_III Edited.

A vast underground river. We also have a lake reservoir.

^^^ You guys have so much cool stuff where you live!

In the part of the Bay Area where my parents are, we get our water from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.

In Reno, we get 85% of our water from the Truckee River (whose source is Lake Tahoe).

Just cool old time names.

This ”The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River. ”
In Kansas, our lakes don’t drain. It’s the rivers that feed the lakes.

Interesting fact: Naturalist John Muir fought against the flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley by a man made dam and tried to preserve it. This was part of the start of the Sierra Club.

Interesting. Thanks!

Lake Michigan. An interesting part is that in the 1860s they dug a tunnel 2 miles under the lake to put the intake far away from the stormwater and sewage flowing out of the city.

The intake structures are called cribs. Workers used to live on them like lighthouse keepers at sea, but now they boat out as needed.

Ground water and the Cape Fear river.

Folsom reservoir, American River, plus some weiis.

A big river

A large man made reservoir and two other smaller reservoirs. Large one can produce water for consumption for almost two years, if it stopped raining.

Lake Lanier, which is fed by the Chattahoochee River.

It’s not common knowledge that Madison, often called the City of Four Lakes, actually gets its drinking water from an aquifer. The vast deposit of saturated sandstone sits hundreds of feet below Madison, providing the city with more than 10 billion gallons of water every year.

AH!! There is a grammatical error in my question!”

When the idea of flooding the valley, that is now Winfield Lake was presented, it meant kicking farmers off of their land. “Eminent Domain.”
The county bull dozed its decision through and left a lot of unhappy people forced to move.
Word has it that when they closed up the last bit of damming Timber Creek the water rose much faster than anticipated and men were running for their lives! Rumor has it there are a few bull dozers at the bottom of the lake, and lots of farm buildings and houses, many made of stone.

Lafayette and Briones reservoirs, which are part of a reservoir system fed by the Mokelumne River, which is collected at Pardee Reservoir in the Sierra foothills, about 90 miles away.

@zenvelo…that was like reading about the engineering of the Greek / Roman aquaducts.

I would assume from Lake Travis or one the other numerous Central Texas Lakes or rivers. As long as they don’t draw it out of Hippie Hollow. Notorious Austin area skinny dipping spot from wayyy back in the day. But I wouldn’t know about that. Cough…

@Dutchess_III most of California gets its water from the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada.

@NoMoreY_Aagain why on earth would we care if naked primates bathed in that water?

@Dutchess_III You got me there I guess…lol

@Janbb, your comment and the Sierra Club reminded me of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. There is a book out that I’ve read and reread several times.

”The dam was owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive club that counted Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick among its members.”

“Bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati, and as late as 1911”