The Shocking Corruption Behind LA's Water Supply

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@TheB1M
@TheB1M 5 ай бұрын
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@robertmartens7839
@robertmartens7839 5 ай бұрын
Forget it Jake
@ivy_47
@ivy_47 5 ай бұрын
thank you for doing a normal sponsor
@7779-c3m
@7779-c3m 5 ай бұрын
How about imperial system with metric, you are doing vids in the US
@DeusEx.Machina
@DeusEx.Machina 5 ай бұрын
There’s nothing shocking about LA’s corruption besides how sophisticated it is 😅😂.
@davypelletier
@davypelletier 5 ай бұрын
Came here to say the exact same thing. 😅
@railgap
@railgap 5 ай бұрын
In a race for worst, they'd be neck-and-neck with Las Vegas and Chicago. :/
@comedysyrup
@comedysyrup 5 ай бұрын
@@railgap Water conservation wise, Las Vegas is actually really good
@zaffo757
@zaffo757 5 ай бұрын
San Francisco is better at the game. It drowned a national treasure
@pyromaniac354
@pyromaniac354 5 ай бұрын
Don't forget NYC ​@@railgap
@elsongs
@elsongs 5 ай бұрын
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.
@KarlDahlquist
@KarlDahlquist 5 ай бұрын
why let facts get in the way?
@curtklebaum
@curtklebaum 5 ай бұрын
Yes, you are correct. There's a bit of video too of the California Aqueduct that comes down the Central Valley to Southern California, which is completely separate from the LA Aqueduct both physically and administratively. Different history entirely.
@user-ko9te4jj4u
@user-ko9te4jj4u 5 ай бұрын
@@KarlDahlquist why let disinformation through?
@MikeySlou
@MikeySlou 5 ай бұрын
And?
@stevegonzales527
@stevegonzales527 5 ай бұрын
What do you expect from wiki readers who do 0 research and just make a video based off the wiki page
@anthonyross-702
@anthonyross-702 5 ай бұрын
RIP Robert Towne, the writer of 'Chinatown', who died today.
@willlazenby1050
@willlazenby1050 5 ай бұрын
Wow I just watched Chinatown for the first time last week, great movie. RIP.
@xxdesertstorm
@xxdesertstorm 5 ай бұрын
he died July 1st not 3rd a quick google search and common sense to google it tells you
@Gfynbcyiokbg8710
@Gfynbcyiokbg8710 5 ай бұрын
No he died 2 days ago
@xxdesertstorm
@xxdesertstorm 5 ай бұрын
@@willlazenby1050 he passed on the 1st not today but that account wants to spread disinformation like a MAGGOT MAGA does
@xxdesertstorm
@xxdesertstorm 5 ай бұрын
😂😂so its a stolen account using Chat-GPT 😂😂 what clown sh!t
@wojowestcoast
@wojowestcoast 5 ай бұрын
the fact this video left william mulholland out of the story is criminal
@mikeberg5003
@mikeberg5003 5 ай бұрын
Uh....they obviously couldn't use his name. Noah Cross IS Mulholland. That's who the character is based on
@revvyhevvy
@revvyhevvy 5 ай бұрын
​@@mikeberg5003Yep! And John Huston played his dastardly role very well (or poorly, depending on your frame of reference!).
@TheSwissGabber
@TheSwissGabber 5 ай бұрын
You don't say .. :D "William Mulholland was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California."
@theoldman8877
@theoldman8877 5 ай бұрын
@wojowestcoast I agree Mulholland ruined enough lives in Owans valley and killed enough other people by drowning that he should have been mentioned .
@theoldman8877
@theoldman8877 3 ай бұрын
@@TheSwissGabber LA should not be the largest city in California. That is the biggest problem with Southern California. The growth of LA is at the expense of the rest of the state it is a crime.
@ldm58427
@ldm58427 5 ай бұрын
Not sure how you can avoid talking about William Mulholland
@brandonhoffman4712
@brandonhoffman4712 5 ай бұрын
And once talking about Mulholland how can we skip the vehicle graveyard below mulholland drives dead mans corner. When will it stop eating lives?
@rudy6601
@rudy6601 5 ай бұрын
​@@brandonhoffman4712Mulholland the failed dam builder. Who cares about the corner.
@brandonhoffman4712
@brandonhoffman4712 5 ай бұрын
@rudy6601 Everyone should. Mulholland drive has killed more people than the St. Francis dam disaster. Its also still a threat to humanity. Who cares about some old dam.
@raidengl
@raidengl 5 ай бұрын
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.
@k6usy
@k6usy 5 ай бұрын
They also didn’t mention the other two major water sources for southern CA, the California aqueduct and the Colorado river.
@ZakhadWOW
@ZakhadWOW 5 ай бұрын
and the continuing abuse of the COlorado reiver compact.. Californis contributes nothing in water drainage INTO the river but pulls out far more than it has any sane or justifiable claim to. In the meantime Mexico basically gets f***ed in the ass because there's no flow left by the time it gets there.. thanks to LA basically.
@brianc2595
@brianc2595 5 ай бұрын
You mean the lake that the local people at that time were draining as fast as possible by truckload for their ranches on land they themselves seized from the aboriginal tribe living there while mining companies were simultaneously dumping their toxic waste into the shallow lake without care? The dry lake which is so toxic from what the people were doing before LA seized the water resources of the region that it eats through good quality rubber boots in less than a month and remains a source of heavy arsenic and other heavy metal contamination in the ground water? LA was just the last ongoing/ most current in a line of negative things that have happened in that region, not the first or only nor the most atrocious, from certain perspectives.
@Gongolongo
@Gongolongo 5 ай бұрын
​@@brianc2595you OK there buddy?
@curtklebaum
@curtklebaum 5 ай бұрын
@@brianc2595 Hold on. Owens Lake (Patsiata in Paiute) was a bitter, highly saline body of water absolutely unsuitable for irrigation by anyone including the local tribes. In fact, the indigenous folk of the Owens Valley (called Payhuünadü) practiced a rudimentary type of irrigation, but drew their water from the streams which flow down from the Sierra. The lake evaporated by the 1920s because of the diversion of the Owens river into the aqueduct. Due to legal victories won by local tribes and environmental conservation groups some water has been restored to the lower Owens River and the lake even became partly refilled after the tremendous snowmelt of 2023, it's a miraculous sight.
@jamestucker8088
@jamestucker8088 5 ай бұрын
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.
@errolv
@errolv 5 ай бұрын
My dad was associated with a small water company in LA county in the 1940's-60's. He showed me the sand-bottom dry rivers like the Rio Hondo. He explained that local water was channeled into these places to soak into the ground, then local water companies could pump it back up into those systems.
@revvyhevvy
@revvyhevvy 5 ай бұрын
​@@errolvWow!
@travisb7797
@travisb7797 5 ай бұрын
Mr. Pi-pi enters the chat.
@michaeltabanao8092
@michaeltabanao8092 5 ай бұрын
👍....Here in San Diego, we conserved to much, to the point Water Authoritys are becoming financially strapped......It's like coca cola saying , don't drink to much of our product, because it's not healthy......
@omegaz3393
@omegaz3393 5 ай бұрын
@michaeltabanao8092 In the midwest. City water works. They said Conserve water. People did. They used 20% less. This reduced revenue. Thus they had to raise the water rates by 25%. Drought was short lived. Barely existed. Water consumption increased. Obviously the city didn't reduce the rates. They found other uses for the excess revenue. Should another drought come about sometime in the future, we fully expect a repeat of conserve, increase fees and no give backs.
@MrVvulf
@MrVvulf 5 ай бұрын
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."
@MrIansmitchell
@MrIansmitchell 5 ай бұрын
That’s an aqueduct the Romans built them two thousand years earlier.
@MrVvulf
@MrVvulf 5 ай бұрын
@@MrIansmitchell You'd have to watch the whole video. They did a lot more than aqueducts. Aqueducts carry water from one place to another. This particular group of Maya had to engineer the collection of the water in the first place, not just move it around.
@stephenspackman5573
@stephenspackman5573 5 ай бұрын
@@MrIansmitchell Fascinating, isn't it, that the Old and New worlds were undergoing the same developments at the same time, supposedly without contact?
@KingArthurWs
@KingArthurWs 5 ай бұрын
@@MrVvulf And they had to store it in lined pits, since all the ground is porous. Actually incredible innovation.
@aaronleverton4221
@aaronleverton4221 5 ай бұрын
@@MrIansmitchell Yeah, that thing that someone did with no prior knowledge isn't fantastic because someone on the other side of the world did it with knowledge borrowed from previous cultures. Mate, lighten up, the Romans don't care about your cheerleading. Did the Romans use terrace farming?
@kaypag969
@kaypag969 5 ай бұрын
LA never stopped taking other people’s water, this time from everyone from Northern California. SoCal should invest on desalination instead. They have the whole sea to take water from.
@jonathanjones3126
@jonathanjones3126 5 ай бұрын
California could easily build desalination plants but the eco terrorists won't allow it
@revvyhevvy
@revvyhevvy 5 ай бұрын
Lucky for me, I reside in Idaho, which has, to this point, abundant water resources thanks to our Snake River! The only rivers that flows northward to the Columbia!
@jonathanjones3126
@jonathanjones3126 5 ай бұрын
@@revvyhevvy don't tell southern California they will want to build a pipeline just to water the golf courses
@IPwn3dJo
@IPwn3dJo 5 ай бұрын
That’s what I’ve been saying for over a decade when they started complaining about not having enough water. They are right next to the ocean and we have the technology to purify it
@AA-ch7yw
@AA-ch7yw 5 ай бұрын
Agriculture in California takes 80% of the developed water for 2.5% of the economy. I’d probably start with the practice of irrigating water-thirsty crops in the open desert. This affects multiple states as well as Southern California.
@mikesmovingimages
@mikesmovingimages 5 ай бұрын
Owens River supply began being reduced thirty years ago in large part because LA was forced to maintain minimum levels at Mono Lake beginning in the 90s. Prior to that, LA Dept of Water & Power had been diverting virtually all its tributaries and the lake (actually an inland salt-water sea) was drying up. Legal action prevented that from happening, forcing DWP to allow enough water to reach the lake as well as maintain the stream habitats that had been destroyed when the water was cut off. In the past twenty years more water has been diverted to reflood parts of Owens Lake to prevent alkaline dust from being blown into the air.
@mk1st
@mk1st 5 ай бұрын
Flying in to LA a few years ago I was amazed to see how much water runs down those channels out to the ocean.
@ebridgewater
@ebridgewater 5 ай бұрын
Sadly, the screenwriter of Chinatown (1974), Robert Towne, died two days ago, aged 89.
@jonnies
@jonnies 5 ай бұрын
Legendary film
@chocomalk
@chocomalk 5 ай бұрын
Tujunga = Tuhunga Doheney = Do hee knee
@ElDJReturn
@ElDJReturn 5 ай бұрын
Lol, I cringed when he said those names as someone who grew up in LA
@KaliforniaLA
@KaliforniaLA 5 ай бұрын
Thanks. I was going to type that lol
@WeHoGayJohn
@WeHoGayJohn 5 ай бұрын
It’s still a great video but yeah, I winced when I heard those two. Eh, I can only imagine how many Brits wince when Americans gets British names wrong.
@latyper7450
@latyper7450 5 ай бұрын
He made me do a spit take
@krashd
@krashd 5 ай бұрын
@@ElDJReturn You shouldn't have, how on Earth would someone in the UK ever have heard either of those names? You cringe when someone mispronounces something common or fairly common, not at something obscure that only local people would possibly know...
@TheB1M
@TheB1M 5 ай бұрын
Let that SOAK in ☔
@markmh835
@markmh835 5 ай бұрын
Cute! 😁👍
@eugeneloke237
@eugeneloke237 5 ай бұрын
Yes
@MrsGozdzikova
@MrsGozdzikova 5 ай бұрын
that is actually a good pun
@ElLocoMonkey2012
@ElLocoMonkey2012 5 ай бұрын
"There it is. Take it." If you want an awesome story, read Water to the Angels.
@GeminiTwinsofLove
@GeminiTwinsofLove 5 ай бұрын
@TheB1M Flower of life, Rose City... Thanks Angels.
@gregknipe8772
@gregknipe8772 5 ай бұрын
here in the states, we call this the golden triangle = business interests, government agencies, and elected officials. its how destination ski areas are built, how Elon musk has his way with wildlife preserves, and how we enter wars like Iraq and Vietnam. money to made? we can do that. it does not matter if the citizens care, we are mostly too stupid and busy with our work, or our play things.
@robertmartens7839
@robertmartens7839 5 ай бұрын
leave Elon out of this
@5frogfrenzy
@5frogfrenzy 5 ай бұрын
@@robertmartens7839elon doesn’t care about you
@deftoned2
@deftoned2 5 ай бұрын
You’re showing the wrong aqueduct. The LA aqueduct is completely separate from the California Aqueduct. Your thumbnail is VERY misleading. California Aqueduct is a State funded and run project.
@FGH9G
@FGH9G 5 ай бұрын
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.
@b_uppy
@b_uppy 5 ай бұрын
Agreed. They need to do a lot more to soak in the water. In Tucson a guy named Brad Lancaster started creating bioswales first at his house, to help harvest rainwater. He did illegal curbcuts and diverted/used streetwater to water decorative landscaping and trees around his yard. His neighbors wondered how he got a green yard (it was a dry barren yard in a dry barren POORER part of town). They too decided to do something similar. More people showed interest. These streets were more walkable and bikeable, paving showed less buckling, more people out and about reduced crime, swales reduced pollution. It even reduced downstream flooding. They approached the city council and city engineers with these reduced negative impacts. This a informed new city-wide policy to allow more bioswales. Using native greenery for streetside planting added a unique naturalistic, low maintenance desirability to these neighborhoods, people saved on water bills, home cooling costs went down, people had more food from trees because the bark of trees absorbs the toxins of concern from street runoff, instead of going into the fruit. The interest and the circle of information keeps widening. Look up the books on rainwater harvesting. Brad Lancaster is a good author, buy his latest editions (or check them out from the library) as they rrally do have more useful info than older ones. These solutions are useful for building resiliency in a hyperlocalized way. People can benefit from immediately these imediately. I do recommend further research because there is fine tuning that makes them more effective, and reduces downsides otherwise due to poor planning/placement. Homeowners, commercial property owners with huge parking lots, city planners and so forth could all learn...
@BurritoKingdom
@BurritoKingdom 5 ай бұрын
Pretty much all of California needs to conserve rain water. They were lucky that the last 2 years had alot rain but there will probably be more droughts
@5frogfrenzy
@5frogfrenzy 5 ай бұрын
@@BurritoKingdomexcept we do. The problem is agriculture. Yes we need food but water intensive crops are not a necessary in the state with constant drought.
@daniellanglois9973
@daniellanglois9973 5 ай бұрын
Forgot about Mulholland.
@semipenguin
@semipenguin 5 ай бұрын
His career came to an end when the St Francis Dam collapsed.
@DavidS5118
@DavidS5118 5 ай бұрын
Mulholland, Eaton and Otis created a water grift that has lasted a century.
@concerned1313
@concerned1313 5 ай бұрын
I concur!
@HPABQ
@HPABQ 5 ай бұрын
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.
@brandonhoffman4712
@brandonhoffman4712 5 ай бұрын
Its so stupid for california not to be on the forefront of desalination. Our state is @ the forefront of anything green. We know we are a desert, yet we have an ocean right here. Instead were focused more on sucking the water out of our poop to spray on feilds our children play on...
@richardvale214
@richardvale214 3 ай бұрын
Desalination is still too expensive. LA could have chosen it at any time had it been affordable.
@modalmixture
@modalmixture 3 ай бұрын
Much too expensive still. San Diego County *did* invest in desal in Carlsbad, and now they wish they hadn't because they're forced to purchase the extremely pricey water when there is cheaper water available.
@glennac
@glennac 5 ай бұрын
“Forget it Fred! It’s The B1M”. 😄
@grilledflatbread4692
@grilledflatbread4692 5 ай бұрын
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.
@sanandaallsgood673
@sanandaallsgood673 5 ай бұрын
Uh, wrong. The Chase National Bank was organized September 12, 1877, by John Thompson (1802-91), who named the bank in honour of the late U.S. Treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase. (Thompson had earlier helped found the First National Bank, a predecessor of Citibank and, later, CitiGroup.)
@SamSeth
@SamSeth 5 ай бұрын
"Cadillac Desert" is a great book with a wide perspective on SW American water policy, including the LA projects. It's a long read, but very insightful
@c42rlk
@c42rlk 5 ай бұрын
I have two copies of the book. I loaned my first copy to a friend, and when he didn't return it for a couple years, I bought a second copy...and then the friend returned the first copy.
@handimanjay6642
@handimanjay6642 3 ай бұрын
Something that makes no sense to me is California calls for personal water use to be less and less while two things happen. Golf courses and rain water. A single 18 hole golf course requires a million or more gallons of water daily to keep them green and rainwater is collected through storm drains and dumped into the ocean. The gallons per person use of water for golf courses is outrageous especially when we can get fined for watering our lawns and washing cars. Not collecting rain water is a waste. They direct it to the ocean saying the oils and contaminants from roadways would make it hard to recycle but at the same time they treat and recycle gray water for landscape irrigation. You ever smell that stuff when it’s sprayed? Also the use of open aquifer canals to transport water loses allot to evaporation and leaves that water source vulnerable to tampering. Large scale solar evaporation produces purified drinking water as is the water produced from air conditioning unit, another source of water wasted.
@PantherMom512
@PantherMom512 3 ай бұрын
❤ 💯‼️ And private swimming pools 🏊‍♂️
@blahblah1268
@blahblah1268 5 ай бұрын
B1M thank you for making a video about LA . For me this city is everything to me and I am constantly trying my best in any way to make it a better place. I hope other Angelos see this and feel the sense of urgency we need to feel when it comes to the future of our wonderful city.
@curtklebaum
@curtklebaum 5 ай бұрын
As a resident of the Owens Valley I appreciated the accuracy of your historical outline regarding LA's primary water source. The aqueduct was a huge engineering feat (I am a little surprised you didn't get into the construction aspect more), as well as a huge injustice. Just one little thing: the J in "Tujunga" is pronounced like an H. Always enjoy your channel !
@Wholeenchilada12
@Wholeenchilada12 5 ай бұрын
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.
@arthurm4726
@arthurm4726 5 ай бұрын
No mention of Mulholland, or the St. Francis dam disaster?
@brianc2595
@brianc2595 5 ай бұрын
Different project. Also Mulholland retired after that disaster because of the horror he had over the failure. A failure that wasn't even his. The survey that said the area was suitable for his construction and didn't find that the ground under the dam would be unstable.
@arthurm4726
@arthurm4726 5 ай бұрын
@@brianc2595 the point is that he and the dam were a key part of the Los Angeles/water story. Nothing you posted negates this.
@brianc2595
@brianc2595 5 ай бұрын
@@arthurm4726 I don't recall this video talking about the California Aqueduct or the aqueduct from the Colorado River either, and those were even more important. This video covers only one aspect of the story, and that does not include the fall of Mulholland either
@arthurm4726
@arthurm4726 5 ай бұрын
@@brianc2595 the fact is, the title references the ‘entire’ Los Angeles water story. I guess he decided to be selective in what he covered, but he could have easily put in 10 seconds referencing all the other stories, people, etc., with a quick photo montage, but did not…for those that don’t know, they might assume this one angle was the entire history, when in fact it is not…(the fact he references ‘Chinatown”, which is all about Mulholland, and the dam - among other things - shows that they knew there was more.)
@theconchonetwork498
@theconchonetwork498 5 ай бұрын
Replacing the Cement River with a natural river and wetlands to absorb water is a brilliant idea. However, one of many issues is homelessness. As our country faces an influx of millions of desperate individuals, the homeless crisis may worsen. These individuals might gravitate towards green spaces and establish themselves there. Indeed, this can be observed in any city that has green areas along its rivers.
@mochiebellina8190
@mochiebellina8190 5 ай бұрын
The aforementioned bums can be redirected to the Mojave or Sonoran environs where there will less bicycles and shopping carts for them to appropriate.
@ciscoh1
@ciscoh1 5 ай бұрын
They re building to many apartments in Los Angeles. It’s over crowded
@adamhill4141
@adamhill4141 5 ай бұрын
It is unsustainable to have a such massive city in an arid climate. The natural water supply will never keep up with demand. They could create more desalination plants to supply drinking water but that would bring up more issues.
@rodrigoperalta822
@rodrigoperalta822 5 ай бұрын
Half of Arizona shouldn't exist
@modalmixture
@modalmixture 3 ай бұрын
LA gets about 15" of precip per year, and more falls in the local mountains. Meanwhile Phoenix gets 8", and Las Vegas gets 4".
@Counter_Culture_Commentary
@Counter_Culture_Commentary 5 ай бұрын
From a SoCal native: more snowfall in the mountains the last 2 years, plus a ocean of fresh water underneath the desert. Water shortage is an illusion
@5frogfrenzy
@5frogfrenzy 5 ай бұрын
Lmao you know nothing
@Counter_Culture_Commentary
@Counter_Culture_Commentary 5 ай бұрын
@@5frogfrenzy who could argue with such a thorough, well worded response. You don’t sound ignorant at all
@danmiller7079
@danmiller7079 5 ай бұрын
I too, am a SoCal native for the last 60 plus years. From the early days of my childhood to this very moment, I will never forget 12 years of schooling that required a science class. Every class, including a little college (no degree), I know that California has been and always will be a desert. If it weren’t for Mulholland, L.A. would still be thirsty and a desert. Crooked politicians, land grabbing, water grabbing, etc. I have always be in favor of saving as much rain water as possible and it can be done except this once beautiful state and L.A. spend tax payer dollars on programs that are warm and fuzzy instead of things that are important like water sourcing and infrastructure. Unfortunately, politicians that are crooked in both parties would rather see things the way they are and make empty promises to you and me while taking “special interest” groups money and livin high on the hog. The voters are in charge of that. If you’re tired of failing infrastructure and “droughts” (made up ones), keep voting the way you do. If you want change, vote for someone new next election. DO YOUR RESEARCH ON CANDIDATES before you vote, that goes for EVERYONE!!!! Remember, the government works for the governed. Thanks for listening.
@TempleGuitars
@TempleGuitars 5 ай бұрын
If you're reading this, you have to take a shot every time you're watching a B1M video, and Fred says "...in the world".
@htimsid
@htimsid 5 ай бұрын
You know that it's going to happen and yet you just can't to wait to hear how it will be this time.
@MacSilvey
@MacSilvey 5 ай бұрын
Mate, it's 7:00am on the east coast USA. gimme a minute
@TheB1M
@TheB1M 5 ай бұрын
Drink responsibly everyone.
@TempleGuitars
@TempleGuitars 5 ай бұрын
@@TheB1M The irony being, this is the first video I have ever seen of yours where you didn't say it!
@trainsplanesmore
@trainsplanesmore 5 ай бұрын
The movie "Chinatown" told us about this in detail a half century ago.
@rhipotter6191
@rhipotter6191 5 ай бұрын
The shocker is that its all stolen from northern cali farmers and we are in a "drought" because of that cesspool !!
@Whereiskylechris
@Whereiskylechris 5 ай бұрын
probably one of my favorite videos! I've been fascinated by this ever since I moved to LA! So glad they are working on this infrastructure and I can't wait to see what they do next with this approach. Also biased because the Owens Valley is my second favorite place in the world besides LA.
@MassiveBuild
@MassiveBuild 5 ай бұрын
These events highlight the complex and sometimes dark history of water management in Los Angeles, emphasizing the importance of transparency and ethical governance in public utilities.
@HarrisonJeka
@HarrisonJeka 5 ай бұрын
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.
@revvyhevvy
@revvyhevvy 5 ай бұрын
Thanks you for sharing!
@stevemiller1517
@stevemiller1517 5 ай бұрын
Years ago we saw water in there, during the rainy season.
@stevemiller1517
@stevemiller1517 5 ай бұрын
Valley circle dr.
@travispower2683
@travispower2683 5 ай бұрын
This is still happening today at every level of government
@gpdewitt
@gpdewitt 5 ай бұрын
An additional project of great scope if longer term are LA building code changes that require all water that falls on a property with recent major improvements to stay on the property. This means roof rainwater collection, swales or raised planting beds, permeable pavement at driveways and walks, etc. Over time and over the many square miles of private property, this is huge. The water will partially recharge aquifers as it used to before we paved them over.
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 5 ай бұрын
Anything to raise the cost of home ownership. 🙄
@CalvinsWorldNews
@CalvinsWorldNews 5 ай бұрын
California's water shortage is entirely man made and due to its agriculture policy, a handful of crops and growers use the vast majority of the state's water. Example: - Most fruit takes about 10 gallons of water per pound of product - California is the world's largest almond grower. - Almonds take 1900 gallons per pound. That is not a typo. It's just insane. If the state banned (or even just charged regular rates) for stupid stuff like growing almonds or golf courses in a desert then there's be no problem kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3dXoOja62IfZI
@mknm1349
@mknm1349 5 ай бұрын
California is the country's largest producer of agricultural products - 40% of which is exported. This is important from an international trade perspective. So, the state can't simply ban crops without considering the consequences. BTW rice, a big Cali crop takes about 300 gallons per pound. There was a plan to build many desalination plants along the coast. One was built in Carlsbad which supplies about 10% of the water used in San Diego County. Others have been nixed by the Coastal Commission over concerns about marine life. This shows how difficult it is to consider "obvious" options. Meanwhile, California's population has been flat for ten years @39M+/- 500K. With no growth, it makes perfect sense to diversify the water source portfolio. Some of the ideas presented in the video are actually encouraging.
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 5 ай бұрын
The water crisis is man made because liberal courts order the spillways at the dams to be kept open all the time.
@jonathanjones3126
@jonathanjones3126 5 ай бұрын
Then California is wasting water by diverting it to areas just for a garbage fish
@matthorrocks6517
@matthorrocks6517 5 ай бұрын
Good posts really informative
@afilthyweeb8684
@afilthyweeb8684 5 ай бұрын
We really need to ban almonds and avocados. At those rates, you can get a whole pound of beef. Even more pork or chicken. The only people I know that buy that shit are Mexicans making guacamole or vegan hipsters that claim to care about the environment
@supergumbie7
@supergumbie7 5 ай бұрын
Was just thinking of re-watching Chinatown yesterday
@jfmezei
@jfmezei 5 ай бұрын
How does one convert storm water that has flowed on a street into drinking water? LA already has dams at the foot of the mountains to capture much water and "buffer" storm surges. I can see how that water can be used. But for water that has flowed through urbanised area, can it truly be reclaimed into the drinkihg water? I biked on the San Gabriel river and saw those developments to turn it back into "river" with greater natural retention basins, but was under the impression this was purely a flood control project and not a drinking water one. LA also gets water from the Colorado rver and has its official aallocation as part of multi state division of the water.
@JamesC.Alaskanjim
@JamesC.Alaskanjim 5 ай бұрын
Doheny.. -It’s Pronounced- -Dough-Heee’Neee’-🙏. Spot-On-Awesome Video. Thank you. JamesC. From Los Angeles.. LBZ🙏
@EricaGamet
@EricaGamet 3 ай бұрын
He also said "Tuh-JUNG-ga" and I died a little inside.
@urbanstrencan
@urbanstrencan 5 ай бұрын
Awesome project, we can see how important is water
@mojo.adventures
@mojo.adventures 5 ай бұрын
Nice work on this one👍 I'm glad you've addressed the 500lb gorilla in the room. I try not to focus on one particular area on my channel, but covering the Colorado River, it's pretty easy to see where the worst offenders are at. Most are hundreds of miles away from the river! The irrigation districts have some deep connections in government and lobby and have for some time. Let's just say that!
@simonmcneilly55
@simonmcneilly55 5 ай бұрын
Imagine the quality of storm water from a city like la, all brake dust, tyre dust and exhaust particulates, You may as well start drinking leaded fuel…
@TheDwightMamba
@TheDwightMamba 5 ай бұрын
Exactly! I often tell people to look at the parking spots nearest the entrance of a Wal-Mart. Those are the laziest amongst us. They care not about car dings or dinging their neighbors. They care not about vehicle maintenance, because their parking spots have their pavement eaten down to gravel where the engine bay goes. The effects are amplified in those spots, but those drivers are leaking toxic fluids with violent detergents everywhere they go. Most rusty/dusty cars we see on the road are thinly coated with sooty burnt oil. It's usually varying degrees of head gasket failure. The car's body only catches some of it. The rest gives the planet a thin candy shell, that is until they wash the car and run the sludge straight to their nearest body of water. It's all bad these days.
@paulbush7095
@paulbush7095 5 ай бұрын
Doheny is pronounced Doheeny. Going back to the peanut gallery now.
@zzygyy
@zzygyy 5 ай бұрын
I almost died laughing hearing it.
@Bob-fk8vd
@Bob-fk8vd 5 ай бұрын
Actually, LA gets enough rain to support the city, but most of the rain water is diverted to the ocean in cement lined canals. Now LA had managed to get their hands on water tights in Kern County who has one of the world’s largest aquifer. Kern County and the city of Bakersfield have always filled the aquifer, but LA is now pumping water from Kern County and draining the aquifer.
@3dheadcreeps87
@3dheadcreeps87 5 ай бұрын
My boy Dallas Raines made it onto B1M.
@KaliforniaLA
@KaliforniaLA 5 ай бұрын
I can’t watch Dallas. The tan is just awful.
@franeko7617
@franeko7617 5 ай бұрын
As a non native english speaker i will post a very gentle request for option to have english captions (not this auto generated). It will help a lot with understanding yours fast and detailed speech :) best regards - you are doing great work!
@ScottFerreira
@ScottFerreira 5 ай бұрын
Great video! Look into Cerro Gordo too, above Owens Valley. The real reasons LA exists in the way it does today.
@Artista_Frustrado
@Artista_Frustrado 5 ай бұрын
Gee who woulda thunk it, making a place livable for Nature would also make it more livable for people
@iwearvelcroshoez
@iwearvelcroshoez 5 ай бұрын
LADWP destroyed the Owen’s valley.
@michaeltabanao8092
@michaeltabanao8092 5 ай бұрын
Humans destroyed the world 🌎 🤔.....chicken and egg 🥚 conundrum
@sightseeinginstyle8119
@sightseeinginstyle8119 5 ай бұрын
I'd be interested in seeing if there is a big push into residential water capture and storage. I remember as a kid in the 1990s the advertising campaign where I lived in Australia. Its basically standard now that all stand alone houses have to have some sort of water tank storage facility, even if its small, and larger apartment complexes have to have something integrated. Its pretty astonishing how much water you can capture off a roof, and its certainly helped Aussies out during periods of drought.
@gregorymalchuk272
@gregorymalchuk272 5 ай бұрын
Do people drink it? What do they do with it?
@barbaracutrone6745
@barbaracutrone6745 5 ай бұрын
Many cities and counties have outlawed water capture.
@sightseeinginstyle8119
@sightseeinginstyle8119 5 ай бұрын
@@barbaracutrone6745 Seriously? That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard! More and more places are having severe droughts, and places want to stop people from capturing water instead of wasting it as runoff? Damn, but am I glad I live in Australia.
@sightseeinginstyle8119
@sightseeinginstyle8119 5 ай бұрын
@@gregorymalchuk272 Places that don't have town water or want to supplement and reduce their reliance will have filtration systems and will use it as their drinking water. Others plumb it into their showers/laundry systems, others use it for irrigation of gardens. Basically, anything you would use town or bore water for, you use home captured rainwater.
@ginobragoli1448
@ginobragoli1448 5 ай бұрын
Your about 15 miles from the Pacific ocean LA, plenty of water there! Start on those desalination plants but it will cost ya!
@Vaporwave_kdh
@Vaporwave_kdh 5 ай бұрын
Actually, they have! there’s a desalination plant right there in Carlsbad under LA. the problem is desalination takes a lot of energy for only a little water in return.
@matthorrocks6517
@matthorrocks6517 5 ай бұрын
You got hundreds of thousands of tons of ddt out there. Plus everything else. I don't think I would dare drink ocean water from there. Desalinated is just filtered.
@ginobragoli1448
@ginobragoli1448 5 ай бұрын
@@matthorrocks6517 You think the one you drink now is much cleaner! All the water we drink no matter where it comes from is full of chemicals to make "it safe".
@a1osborne
@a1osborne 5 ай бұрын
This is great content. Perhaps do a video on how water rights are traded and valued in California and elsewhere around the country. And emphasize how those water rights have been valued over time.
@markus_EU_AT
@markus_EU_AT 5 ай бұрын
Hope you do a piece on the rewild of that concrete sarcophagus river in LA. Or maybe rewild projects in general? Cooling down our cities will be a huge topic during climate change. Back to nature ✊🌳
@ThePeteralonzo83
@ThePeteralonzo83 5 ай бұрын
Not only is LA becoming more of a "sponge city" to help capture rainwater but it is also investing in a huge water recycling facilities. Basically recycling toilet water to tap water, which has already been in use in other cities like Las Vegas.
@HardRockMaster7577
@HardRockMaster7577 5 ай бұрын
Why not have rain water capture containers built all over, like they do on the Big Island???
@ElLocoMonkey2012
@ElLocoMonkey2012 5 ай бұрын
"There it is. Take it." If you want an awesome story, read Water to the Angels.
@veggieboyultimate
@veggieboyultimate 5 ай бұрын
Nature may be the best solution California will have to get enough water.
@brianc2595
@brianc2595 5 ай бұрын
Nature is the problem. Southern California has been a desert since humanity first came to this part of the world. Now it's just more desert than before and only becoming more so.
@LCCWPresents
@LCCWPresents 3 ай бұрын
LA wouldn’t be a city if it didn’t take everyone else’s water.
@Sacto1654
@Sacto1654 5 ай бұрын
The plan to "unconcrete" the Los Angeles River is going to be very expensive, because they will need to substantially deepen the course of the river to avoid the massive flooding that damaged much of the Los Angeles Basin in the 1930's. That means a lot of very expensive deep dredging and likely re-routing of underground utility lines to accommodate the deepened natural river.
@MichaelLewisMusic
@MichaelLewisMusic 5 ай бұрын
In recent years the Sierra Nevada's have experienced record snow fall so no, as of right now, there isn't a steady decline of snow runoff happening.
@joeljong931
@joeljong931 5 ай бұрын
General trend is otherwise. Tree-ring records of precipitation anomalies and of temperature allowed them to reconstruct a 500-year history of snow water equivalent in the Sierra Nevada. The researchers found that the low snowpack of April 2015 was “unprecedented in the context of the past 500 years.”
@MichaelLewisMusic
@MichaelLewisMusic 5 ай бұрын
@@joeljong931 Since they started tracking snow in the Sierras in 1946 the two snowiest season's on record were 1982/83 and 2022/23. Snow pack for this year, 2024 was 110 to 115% of average. There's your trend.
@wr3add
@wr3add 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info… very neat
@TheOtherKine
@TheOtherKine 5 ай бұрын
Robert Towne just died. He wrote CHINATOWN
@ComradeCatpurrnicus
@ComradeCatpurrnicus 5 ай бұрын
When we have lightly regulated corporations and governance that aims to represent only people in power and those unregulated corporations, we will always have a lot of corruption.
@denileriver
@denileriver 5 ай бұрын
Your supposition about Harrison Otis is incorrect, It was Harry Chandler whom bought the majority of real estate knowing full well the future value with a water supply as valuable farmland.
@GarageItYourself
@GarageItYourself 5 ай бұрын
Americas water, air and land legislation is just plain nuts. Just cos you own the land that water naturally flows through or into shouldn't mean you have the rights to do with it as you please. Same as the air rights in NYC. Rather corrupt and just plain bonkers!!!!
@fuzzy3440
@fuzzy3440 5 ай бұрын
Captain Renault: “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling (corruption) is going on in here.” "Your winnings, sir".
@morganswisher1937
@morganswisher1937 5 ай бұрын
How about discussing the impact the Resnicks have had, diverting water to their citrus and almond fields? Or selling water they purchased cheaply for irrigation to home builders in the north?
@GarretGarlinger
@GarretGarlinger 5 ай бұрын
Great video, But one critique. The Sierra Nevada's actually got the most snowfall they've had the last 20 years last year. So you might need to update that Info. But I enjoyed the video!
@WanderlustWonderscape
@WanderlustWonderscape 5 ай бұрын
7:25 - Two-Jung-Ga 😆🤣🤣
@mrbbqcraig
@mrbbqcraig 5 ай бұрын
WoW, that's an interesting vid.... cheers to you @B1M 🤟✨
@KaliforniaLA
@KaliforniaLA 5 ай бұрын
I’ve lived in LA, Sherman Oaks, the Valley, for 40 years. Looking to leave now.
@vejet
@vejet 5 ай бұрын
Isn't rain water run off typically highly contaminated? Hope they're not using it for drinking...
@LeonardTavast
@LeonardTavast 5 ай бұрын
It amazes me that the LA water supply was a major plot point in Chinatown (1974) and yet we see it being dysfunctional still 50 years later.
@No-one91910
@No-one91910 5 ай бұрын
I'm glad LA city council finally knows about the water cycle, which we all learned about in second grade science
@haiuuu7
@haiuuu7 5 ай бұрын
Obligatory shocked face -> 🙄
@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247
@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 5 ай бұрын
Tbf, a lot of the projects you guys have covered have documentary series on the corruption involved its insane especially when government funding is involved the money can always be followed back to the politicians who authorised said projects
@ihopethiscommentisntabusiv4670
@ihopethiscommentisntabusiv4670 5 ай бұрын
LA is next to basically limitless water
@rleewall7919
@rleewall7919 5 ай бұрын
Cadillac Desert is an interesting read about the wicked ways water was brought to LA basin. You can also find old TV episodes about the book on KZbin.
@Ejk2969
@Ejk2969 5 ай бұрын
Uh, and the reason California has drought is because southern Cali is recieving the majority of its water from northern Cali
@joshgarcia6344
@joshgarcia6344 5 ай бұрын
A good book that goes into more detail about LA's early beginnings is called, "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water".
@bnwinsf
@bnwinsf 5 ай бұрын
One of the best books on this subject is Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert. And let’s also keep in mind that the white settlers in the Owens Valley came to reside there by pushing out the Native American peoples that had lived there for hundreds of years (with the help of the US Army). And Doheny is pronounced DOE HEE KNEE. And Tujunga? TuHungu.
@denileriver
@denileriver 5 ай бұрын
Still relevant today when people want more dam sites as the good locations have all been allocated.
@joshgarcia6344
@joshgarcia6344 5 ай бұрын
Love this book.
@denileriver
@denileriver 5 ай бұрын
@@joshgarcia6344 agreed so germane to present day.
@MichaelJEngelmann
@MichaelJEngelmann 5 ай бұрын
8:29, nice place to live if I’m lucky. 😂 where is that? What’s the location?
@Steiner-jt9xy
@Steiner-jt9xy 4 ай бұрын
Hollywood Reservoir
@JJ-er1ng
@JJ-er1ng 5 ай бұрын
Gotta love the those who look at a waterless land and say, "Hey, lets have millions live here!"
@liquidsmokemustang1537
@liquidsmokemustang1537 5 ай бұрын
One major project California should do and could change the future for the better. Build desalination plants with holding ponds. We allow way too much water to wash into the sea. The desalination ponds could be used especially for fighting wildfires instead of using our drinking water. And the concreting in the LA river was the worst idea ever.
@TheDevilHydraProdsXXII
@TheDevilHydraProdsXXII 5 ай бұрын
Not gonna lie, the thumbnail is a little trippy when you first look at it 😂
@esteban1487
@esteban1487 5 ай бұрын
No mention of Mulholland at all?
@b_uppy
@b_uppy 5 ай бұрын
They could hyperlocalize rainwater harvesting thru the use of bioswales. It would support landscaping without taking up more space. Property owners could execute it at minimal cost. LA should promote an eduxational program of using curbcuts to harvest stormwater street runoff. It will reduce the burden on the stormwater drains; reduce brownouts due to reduced energy usage (irrigating requires electricity to fuel gridded pumping); reduce ground subsidence and thus reduce future foundation and other concrete cracking; reduce irrigation equipment maintenance costs; increase shade and beauty; reduce pavement buckling; decrease crime; increase walkability and bikeability; etc.
@JayYoung-ro3vu
@JayYoung-ro3vu 3 ай бұрын
I see much water loss through evaporation in the canals. Also, though small, how about removing those "iconic" palm trees we see frequently? They aren't native and require much water to sustain.
@KeithZim
@KeithZim 5 ай бұрын
We need to develop an evacuation plan that turns off the water. We have plenty of space. Shipping water should be extremely limited to a few miles. In the long run its far cheaper to move the people and ban the practice of transporting water out of a county or state or even city...
@Mr.Isquierdo
@Mr.Isquierdo 5 ай бұрын
La is the reason all the towns including mine can't water the fields and orchards.
@mmsmits2868
@mmsmits2868 5 ай бұрын
Think about this: gold cannot sustain life; water can... Thanks for the video.
@alexz1104
@alexz1104 5 ай бұрын
Interesting to see not just buildings and engineering projects but also how they fit into the bigger political/economic/social context. Would love to see you publish on nostr so I could leave tips every time you make a video, and actually see/ the video when it comes out instead of having KZbin bury it in my feed. Nostr lets me control my feed, not KZbin.
@abel5925
@abel5925 5 ай бұрын
Me hanging out and randomly saying “Subscribe to the B1M” My wife - what? Nothing.
@peepa47
@peepa47 5 ай бұрын
Its funny how most of people never think about where the water comes from, you just turn on the tap.
@andrewmain3572
@andrewmain3572 5 ай бұрын
Read about the St Francis Dam collapse
@barbaracutrone6745
@barbaracutrone6745 5 ай бұрын
For many decades dams all across America are being removed!
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