By the time we reached the pristine lake reservoir atop the Grapevine the Cheez-Its were gone.
The New York water system, completed in 1915, uses a daily supply of 1.3 billion gallons of water from pristine upstate reservoirs, the largest unfiltered supply in the world.
One of only five cities in the country that is not required to filter its water supply, New York depends on its pristine upstate watersheds and reservoirs to deliver H20 that some have said is better than anything you can buy bottled.
A press release from the governor's office said the forest, 90percentt of which is in Fairfield County, features "miles of pristine streams, upland ridges and reservoir shorefront".
That's how much San Francisco pays for the privilege of making its macchiatos with pristine Sierra water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, courtesy of the Raker Act, the 1913 law that authorized San Francisco to dam the Tuolomne River and flood the valley for its water supply.
Continue through the hamlets of High Falls and Stone Ridge, and over the Ashokan Reservoir, one of New York City's pristine water sources.
Ridgeway estimates donations to date total around $50m, including support for the controversial Restore Hetch Hetchy campaign to drain the reservoir next to Yosemite that supplies San Francisco with pristine Sierra Nevada snow melt.
Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite national park has supplied San Francisco with pristine drinking water from the snowmelt in the High Sierras for almost 90 years.
Visiting the buildings on a pristine tract of 97 acres overlooking the north end of Kensico Reservoir in Mount Pleasant is an entirely different experience, for they are so sympathetic and well integrated that they blend inconspicuously into the leafy environment, echoing the contours of the land and frequently utilizing local natural materials like wood and stone.
Some are eerie black-and-white windows on a lost world: the pristine gorges of the Croton Valley and the Catskills as they were before their inundation as reservoir basins.
