The Shocking Corruption Behind LA's Water Supply
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Published 2024-07-03
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All Comments (21)
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There’s nothing shocking about LA’s corruption besides how sophisticated it is 😅😂.
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RIP Robert Towne, the writer of 'Chinatown', who died today.
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The structure shown in the thumbnail is actually the State Water Project (i.e. the California Aqueduct), a California state-funded project built in the 1960s that has nothing to do with the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
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One thing they missed is how LA county is diverting purified waste water from the water treatment plants and injecting it into the ground. This is to decrease the salinity of the aquifer under LA and make it easier to purify. And due to conservation measures the water used per person is going down so fast that even with the huge increase in population the last 20 years the total water used by the city is going down.
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You can't talk about the Owens river without talking about the Owens reservoir which was completely drained in this effort to give water to LA.
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A quote from the video called "PBS: Quest for the Lost Maya": "The Maya had their own version of this sort of landscape-altering infrastructure. The Puuc region of the Yucatan has no natural water sources—no streams, lakes, rivers, or springs. The Maya had to rely on their ingenuity and engineering skills to sustain large populations in this environment."
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Tujunga = Tuhunga Doheney = Do hee knee
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Sadly, the screenwriter of Chinatown (1974), Robert Towne, died two days ago, aged 89.
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Wow! So the movie Chinatown was indeed a documentary! Haha. But for real now, judging by the graph at 5:18, the city of LA DESPERATELY needs to up their water recycling. Especially nowadays, they absolutely cannot afford to waste water and just let it all run off into the Pacific.
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The thumbnail doesn’t depict part of City of LA’s supply—wrong but of infrastructure! It’s part of the State Water Project, a massive aqueduct and reservoir system built to serve vast swaths of Southern California. It has zero to do with LA’s covert land grabs in the Owens Valley or the Colorado River aqueduct.
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Mulholland, Eaton and Otis created a water grift that has lasted a century.
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Aaron Burr spent only 100k out of 2M raised to supply water to New York City. He used the rest to start a bank.. today you know them as Chase bank. They used logs instead of proper pipes and did a halfass job.
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Decades ago some forward thinking people wanted to build desalination plants and the city council said it was too expensive. In hindsight seems like it might have been a great investment.
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My father worked for the DWP for almost 40 years so all of this knowledge is almost inherited 😅 If anyone ever drove or lived by the Chatsworth reservoir, we were the people that used to live there and maintain it.
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Let that SOAK in ☔
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Not sure how you can avoid talking about William Mulholland
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“Forget it Fred! It’s The B1M”. 😄
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the fact this video left william mulholland out of the story is criminal
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Forgot about Mulholland.
