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Originally Posted by Scott R
I'm reading this with fascination, learning a lot from this thread. Before I went into IT was doing other engineering courses. In one course there was a lecture about LA in the 1900's I think, very early. where they declared an emergency and drained a lake, or built an aqueduct to a lake to solve it. I can't find it on Google tonight, maybe it never happened. Of course that would never work today, but I remember it was a great history lesson. Anyone know it?
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There was a PBS series about this (Flood in the Desert), it was interesting. All I could find was a short YouTube video clip of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrLoujJRn4
PBS site
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-william-mulholland/