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As the Colorado River's reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...
It's the final leg of the massive Colorado River Aqueduct: the 13-mile-long San Jacinto tunnel, bringing up to 1,700 cubic feet of water per second underneath one of Southern California's tallest ...
The Metropolitan Water District recently offered visitors a look inside the tunnel, an engineering feat that is a key piece of the 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct. Thousands of feet below the ...
As drought, global warming and chronic overuse push the Colorado River to perilous new lows, water officials are hoping to prevent an earthquake from severing a critical Depression-era aqueduct ...
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, is rapidly drying up, signaling a critical water crisis in the ...
You also have to have the infrastructure.” The Gene Pumping Plant near Lake Havasu lifts water hundreds of feet to the Colorado River Aqueduct system, which delivers it to Los Angeles ...
In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the express purpose of building the Colorado River Aqueduct and transporting the water to the city. March 12 of that same year, the St ...
One cannot overstate the importance of Colorado River water in the evolution of ... while the Met began building a 240-mile aqueduct to carry the lake’s water to Los Angeles, San Diego and ...