We protect and sustain the resources entrusted to our care. Learn more about our watersheds, reservoirs, policies, and programs, as well as recreation opportunities.

We manage a complex water supply system stretching from the Sierra to the City and featuring a complex series of reservoirs, tunnels, pipelines, and treatment systems. Two unique features of this system stand out: the drinking water provided is among the purest in the world; and the system for delivering that water is almost entirely gravity fed, requiring almost no fossil fuel consumption to move water from the mountains to your tap. We are the third largest municipal utility in California, serving 2.7 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the Bay Area. Approximately

Celebrate the extraordinary events and memorable leaders who conceived, designed and built San Francisco’s water system with foresight to provide today’s Bay Area with high quality drinking water supplies. San Francisco’s water system developed over time from the streams and wells of its earliest days to today’s complex system of dams, reservoirs, tunnels and pipelines that brings water from the high Sierra Nevada by gravity across California to join from the East Bay and San Francisco Peninsula. A History of the Municipal Water Department & Hetch Hetchy System

We strive to be a good neighbor, and we work to support a healthy environment and vibrant communities. Community Benefits Dashboard Community Benefits Annual Report At the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, our mission is to provide our customers with high-quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and sewer services in a manner that is inclusive of environmental and community interests, and that sustains the resources entrusted to our care. We strive to be a good neighbor and work to support a healthy environment and create vibrant communities. We are proud to be the first utility

Our leadership team is a group of experienced professionals dedicated to serving you while working in harmony with our community and the environment.

We Are Here to Serve You. Our mission is to provide our customers with high quality, efficient and reliable water, power, and sewer services in a manner that is inclusive of environmental and community interests, and that sustains the resources entrusted to our care. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission provides retail drinking water & wastewater services to the City of San Francisco, wholesale water to three Bay Area counties, green hydroelectric & solar power to Hetch Hetchy electricity customers, and power to the residents & businesses of San Francisco through the CleanPowerSF