But back then, that aqueduct still wasn’t enough for the growing metropolis, so L.A. and nearby cities turned east, towards the Colorado River. The federal government built a dam to control the desert river’s violent flooding, and to conserve water for the rapidly urbanizing West.
They built pipelines to “thirteen favored cities” who would be “forever protected against the scorching menace of Man’s most deadly foe,” as Don J. Kinsey, MWD’s first general manager’s assistant,As L.A. grew even more, the State Water Project was developed, pumping water from the San Francisco Bay area to San Diego—the MWD now distributes that supply as well.
Today, that original pipeline infrastructure still serves those 13 cities—Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Compton, Fullerton, Glendale, Long Beach, Pasadena, San Marino, Santa Ana, Santa Monica, Torrance and L.A . But nowadays, the Colorado River isn’t as “abundant” or “assured” as Kinsey wrote that it was all those years ago.MWD operates a massive water distribution system that serves 19 million people in southern California.
That’s why it’s not so simple as just plugging a city into the Colorado River supply—though MWD has implemented infrastructure changes to push Colorado River supplies to communities where it hasn’t previously been available, according to a statement from the agency. There’s another level of complexity: The Colorado River is governed by a convoluted set of laws and agreements between seven states—California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado—as well as Mexico. In short, managing the river’s water supplies is
Long story short, F your lawns!
Also, why do water bills use HCF instead of gallons? Seems counterintuitive if we expect people to think in gallons.
How is it that 80g per person per day is hard? I just went back and computed our consumption is 27 gals per person. We have no lawn, and honestly we don’t do anything special indoors like flushing less and we do our laundry like normal people.
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