Pardee Dam News Today

A vegetation fire ignited in the Valley Springs area South of Pardee Dam.

The chosen location, a maintenance facility in West Oakland that previously served as the utility’s headquarters, is symbolic of the challenges the city's utility faces in the coming century. Just 13 feet above sea level, climate models predict this part of Oakland could be underwater in another 100 years.

A look at how drinking water gets to the East Bay from Pardee Dam in the Sierra Nevada foothills, which was built in the 1920s.

East Bay Municipal Utility District's logo actually tells quite a story, and it's a powerful one that shows how your bill may be affected.

For most of us in the Bay Area, the journey our water takes to reach us is hidden from view. It travels long distances, sometimes more than a hundred miles! That can leave us disconnected from the source. We go about our days oblivious to how precarious our water resources might be.