100 Years of Water: Owens Valley Residents Still Worry About Water Losses to L.A.
From the Los Angeles Daily News:
“It was 100 years ago Tuesday that Los Angeles, after buying up most of the Owens Valley and its water rights east of the High Sierra, opened its 233-mile L.A. Aqueduct to quench an ever-growing urban thirst.
“Then local residents saw the Owens River dry up, a vast Owens Lake south of Lone Pine turn to toxic dust, and alkaline clouds choke the air as far south as Ridgecrest.”
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