‘The Hardest Working Water in the World.’

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Water flows through Big Creek Power House 1 in Southern California Edison’s Big Creek hydro-electric system which serves as the home to one of the largest and most extensive hydroelectric projects in the world. Southern California Edison owns and operates the engineering feat, commonly referred to as the Big Creek Project and dubbed “The Hardest Working Water in the World.” Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Production manager Joel Preheim, middle, with Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station shows the turbine that spins 200 feet beneath Shaver Lake that has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Water flows through Big Creek Power House 1 in Southern California Edison’s Big Creek hydro-electric system which serves as the home to one of the largest and most extensive hydroelectric projects in the world. Southern California Edison owns and operates the engineering feat, commonly referred to as the Big Creek Project and dubbed “The Hardest Working Water in the World.” Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Production manager Joel Preheim opens the gated entrance to Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station 1,000 feet in Granite rock under Shaver Lake, and a engineering marvel built from 1983 to 1987 which has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Big Creek Power House 1 in Southern California Edison’s Big Creek hydro-electric system which serves as the home to one of the largest and most extensive hydroelectric projects in the world. Southern California Edison owns and operates the engineering feat, commonly referred to as the Big Creek Project and dubbed “The Hardest Working Water in the World.” Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Giant granite boulders are high and dry at Shaver Lake which feeds Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station which has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: The Balsam Meadows project in the fore ground greatly increased the capability of Big Creek to generate peaking power by pumping water back up the mountain into the reservoir to hold and use later; called “pumped storage.” while granite boulders are exposed at Shaver Lake in the seen in the distance which feeds Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station which has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.

BIG CREEK, CA - JULY 28, 2015: Production manager Joel Preheim walks near the generator buried in 1,000 feet in granite rock at Southern California Edison’s Big Creek John S. Eastwood Power Station, the crown jewel of Southern California Edison’s Big Creek hydro-electric system which has produced cheap and reliable electricity for decades but now the drought may sideline the station on JULY 28, 2015.