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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (330929)9/18/2020 12:33:54 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 361996
 
In 1919 when San Francisco began construction on the dam to bury the Hetch Hetchy Valley, Los Angeles had already been importing water from the Owens Valley for six years since 1913. - inyowater.org

Evelyn Waugh noted, "Los Angeles wears her water like a dowager duchess wears her jewels." - the magic of "first beneficial user."

But then in 1934 Los Angeles took began work on the audacious scheme to build the small Parker Dam to take the water of the Colorado itself - a move halted for a time by the Governor of Arizona and his armed National Guard. Congress hammered out a compact which the adjoining states signed and construction resumed.

It begins with 9 straws taking water from the Parker Dam up to Copper Canyon.



Then by gravity from the Copper Canyon Dam . . .



through a deep tunnel under a mountain range, where it grabs more water, and finally across the desert in an aqueduct.



Ending up at the temple of water filtration in Los Angeles - and from there to all of Southern California.

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