Los Angeles Aqueduct Centennial 2013

On November 5, 2013, the City of Los Angeles celebrated the centennial of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. For a century, Chief Engineer William Mulholland's great engineering achievement has brought water to Los Angeles from the Owens Valley, 233 miles to the north.
Today, the LA Aqueduct is the crown jewel of our water system that supplies 600 million gallons of drinking water to Los Angeles each day. The city has since grown from a pueblo to one of the largest international business hubs in the world, a thriving metropolis and home to 4 million people.
Currently, LADWP is leading an effort to rebuild its local water supplies and reduce reliance on imported water. But the importance of the LA Aqueduct will remain and we celebrate its enduring legacy that helped Los Angeles grow to become the second largest city in the U.S.

[@mikealexander4166]

Interesting points to be made, only reason the are rewatering Owens Lake is because of lawsuits forced them to rewater portions of the lake to keep the toxic dust down. Now imagine if they spent money on cement pipe to enclose the open canals and took out a reservoir or 2 along the way, they could actually put a couple feet of water in Owens Lake that the are currently loosing to evaporation. How many millions did DWP spend on black plastic balls for the Van Norman Reservoir and how many millions have they spent on the dust mitigation projects in Owens Lake? They aren’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts they are facing lawsuits that are forcing their hand.

[@lukepeita7377]

All done without laser guidance bloody marvelous

[@jenniferjuniper97]

Private swimming pools should be shut down during drought years.

[@cavemancaveman9746]

Yes, and Los Angeles should not be developing anymore until they are water independent. Build a desalination plant already. Stop being a burden on the rest of the West.

[@LiterallyGod]

No mention that Mulholland also fabricated a drought to get funding for the bond issue that financed this.

[@zico739]

Good on him.

[@LiterallyGod]

@@zico739 good on your mother

[@joshuajackson8112]

"gets water from where it exists to where the people are"...there are people in northern California too!

[@412StepUp]

Joshua Jackson - I’m from PA so I don’t have a dog in the fight. But are the people of Northern California running out of water?

[@LiterallyGod]

@@412StepUp no they are not

[@LiterallyGod]

NorCal has plenty of freshwater lakes and reservoirs to access. Shut up

[@cavemancaveman9746]

@@LiterallyGod your clueless. NorCal water goes to flush the SF Bay, to LA, and to the environment. Folsom lake is at 37% and Lake Oroville is at 42%. This is only year 2 of this drought. Lower levels than year 4 of the last drought. Meanwhile in SoCal Pyramid is at 93%, Castaic at 78%, and Perris at 90%. During the last drought NorCal had water restrictions: don't flush if just yellow, 2 minute showers, don't water lawn, trees died, etc. We were very close to not receiving water in our taps. So here we go again. SoCal reservoirs are sitting pretty and residents continue to create a rainforest in the desert during a drought with water from elsewhere. They refuse to slow development. How about SoCal impose a moratorium on development until they can become water independent? Would that be logical?! Maybe build a desalination plant or 2 or 3... Stop taking water from the entire West. Ridiculous! They can't provide their own water so they keep taking more and more from others. Refuse to slow development and refuse to desalinate. Entitled much?

[@LiterallyGod]

@@cavemancaveman9746 you obv know nothing about mullhollands bluff do you

[@richardanderson7803]

I'm confused , the guy says it starts at 1300 + feet above sea level and ends at 1400 feet above sea level

[@zico739]

Very impressive. I always wondered where the hell LA got its water from lol.

[@tylermalmsten3170]

Love it

[@ktn8595]

nice thanks

[@davidepperson2376]

Anyone know what the structure is at 6:33?

[@johnkoch4472]

alabama gates

[@psmith669]

Need that almond milk.

[@solorio114]

Yea but screw the central valley right

[@Trespasser249]

+Alex Solorio yes, because when your low on water and the choice is between people drinking the water or almond trees drinking the water.. you always choose the people.

[@solorio114]

The big problem is the those stupid little smelt fish theres water up north for them SF has extra water for their cause they dont need to take it away from the valley for a fish they wana protect, animals go extinct every day u knw sure it un balances eco system but its life. Their making people suffer fuck almond trees grow regular ag it uses less water than trees Trespasser249​

[@zico739]

LA is far more important.

[@cavemancaveman9746]

@@zico739 Los Angeles is a burden on the entire western United States. They need to work on becoming water independent. They need to desalinate. They need to stop building until they provide their own water.

[@winstonmarajh991]

@@cavemancaveman9746 AGREE

[@RobertSmith-le8wp]

Beyond all the political wrangling you have to respect these guys in the early 1900's. Amazing what they could do with just a little hard work

[@ktn8595]

that is true!

[@lgmmrm]

Nah... I don't respect anything of LA's History. They literally detroyed people's lives and livelihoods

[@jeffreygreer]

blah at the expense of natives, a huge lake an entire valley and 5 ghost towns where people are stuck even today, who will buy your ptoperty next to a huge dustbowl

[@winstonmarajh991]

right now money doing all the hard work 😀 !

[@IncredulousIndividual]

@@jeffreygreer Who cares

[@chiparoo222]

Interesting.

[@crazyjukebox5286]

I read about this in my book, thought it wad all made up story, seems like its all true 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮