THE PULGAS WATER TEMPLE on the San Francisco Peninsula is a visual delight, a Greco-Roman design rising over a reflecting pool surrounded by cypress trees and framed by the green Santa Cruz Mountains.

In Redwood City, there’s a round, open-air rotunda that looks like it was plucked right out of ancient Rome. It has stone columns, an ornate dome and even a reflecting pool. It’s called the Pulgas ...

The Pulgas Water Temple — an enduring monument to the water supply system that delivers the vital resource from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Bay Area — was honored as a North American water ...