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."
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
👍....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......
@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.
@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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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 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.
@@MrIansmitchell Fascinating, isn't it, that the Old and New worlds were undergoing the same developments at the same time, supposedly without contact?
@@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?
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.
@@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...
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.
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...
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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 !
"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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
@@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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ua-cam.com/video/glz-Pm6HUG0/v-deo.html
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.
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
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.
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.
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 ✊🌳
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 UA-cam.
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!!!!
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.”
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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".
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.
I live in L.A. and have not seen any of the (very important) projects this video talks about. I think the issue, and this is a real issue, can be solved much quicker and cheaper by 1. Simply perforate the bottom of the storm drains so that some water can seep into the ground. 2. Require homeowners (like me) to collect rainwater and let it slowly seep into the ground. This can even be done with temporary structures during the 3-month rainy season. Will these suggestions solve the water issue - well, it certainly does not make it worse.
All the new construction I see has french drains in the front yard. There is a big perferated tank underground that collects the rain water and slowly lets it seep into the ground.
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Forget it Jake
thank you for doing a normal sponsor
How about imperial system with metric, you are doing vids in the US
There’s nothing shocking about LA’s corruption besides how sophisticated it is 😅😂.
Came here to say the exact same thing. 😅
In a race for worst, they'd be neck-and-neck with Las Vegas and Chicago. :/
@@railgap Water conservation wise, Las Vegas is actually really good
San Francisco is better at the game. It drowned a national treasure
Don't forget NYC @@railgap
RIP Robert Towne, the writer of 'Chinatown', who died today.
Wow I just watched Chinatown for the first time last week, great movie. RIP.
he died July 1st not 3rd a quick google search and common sense to google it tells you
No he died 2 days ago
@@willlazenby1050 he passed on the 1st not today but that account wants to spread disinformation like a MAGGOT MAGA does
😂😂so its a stolen account using Chat-GPT 😂😂 what clown sh!t
the fact this video left william mulholland out of the story is criminal
Uh....they obviously couldn't use his name. Noah Cross IS Mulholland. That's who the character is based on
@@mikeberg5003Yep! And John Huston played his dastardly role very well (or poorly, depending on your frame of reference!).
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."
@wojowestcoast I agree Mulholland ruined enough lives in Owans valley and killed enough other people by drowning that he should have been mentioned .
@@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.
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.
why let facts get in the way?
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.
@@KarlDahlquist why let disinformation through?
And?
What do you expect from wiki readers who do 0 research and just make a video based off the wiki page
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.
They also didn’t mention the other two major water sources for southern CA, the California aqueduct and the Colorado river.
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.
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.
@@brianc2595you OK there buddy?
@@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.
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.
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.
@@errolvWow!
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👍....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......
@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.
Not sure how you can avoid talking about William Mulholland
And once talking about Mulholland how can we skip the vehicle graveyard below mulholland drives dead mans corner. When will it stop eating lives?
@@brandonhoffman4712Mulholland the failed dam builder. Who cares about the corner.
@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.
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.
California could easily build desalination plants but the eco terrorists won't allow it
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!
@@revvyhevvy don't tell southern California they will want to build a pipeline just to water the golf courses
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
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.
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."
That’s an aqueduct the Romans built them two thousand years earlier.
@@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.
@@MrIansmitchell Fascinating, isn't it, that the Old and New worlds were undergoing the same developments at the same time, supposedly without contact?
@@MrVvulf And they had to store it in lined pits, since all the ground is porous. Actually incredible innovation.
@@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?
Tujunga = Tuhunga
Doheney = Do hee knee
Lol, I cringed when he said those names as someone who grew up in LA
Thanks. I was going to type that lol
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.
He made me do a spit take
@@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...
Let that SOAK in ☔
Cute! 😁👍
Yes
that is actually a good pun
"There it is. Take it."
If you want an awesome story, read Water to the Angels.
@TheB1M Flower of life, Rose City... Thanks Angels.
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.
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...
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
@@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.
Flying in to LA a few years ago I was amazed to see how much water runs down those channels out to the ocean.
Sadly, the screenwriter of Chinatown (1974), Robert Towne, died two days ago, aged 89.
Legendary film
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.
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.
leave Elon out of this
@@robertmartens7839elon doesn’t care about you
“Forget it Fred! It’s The B1M”. 😄
Mulholland, Eaton and Otis created a water grift that has lasted a century.
I concur!
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.
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.
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...
Desalination is still too expensive. LA could have chosen it at any time had it been affordable.
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.
Forgot about Mulholland.
His career came to an end when the St Francis Dam collapsed.
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.
Thanks you for sharing!
Years ago we saw water in there, during the rainy season.
Valley circle dr.
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".
You know that it's going to happen and yet you just can't to wait to hear how it will be this time.
Mate, it's 7:00am on the east coast USA. gimme a minute
Drink responsibly everyone.
@@TheB1M The irony being, this is the first video I have ever seen of yours where you didn't say it!
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.
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.)
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 !
"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
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.
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.
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.
No mention of Mulholland, or the St. Francis dam disaster?
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.
@@brianc2595 the point is that he and the dam were a key part of the Los Angeles/water story. Nothing you posted negates this.
@@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
@@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.)
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.
Half of Arizona shouldn't exist
LA gets about 15" of precip per year, and more falls in the local mountains. Meanwhile Phoenix gets 8", and Las Vegas gets 4".
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.
Doheny is pronounced Doheeny. Going back to the peanut gallery now.
I almost died laughing hearing it.
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.
The aforementioned bums can be redirected to the Mojave or Sonoran environs where there will less bicycles and shopping carts for them to appropriate.
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.
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
Lmao you know nothing
@@5frogfrenzy who could argue with such a thorough, well worded response.
You don’t sound ignorant at all
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.
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.
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And private swimming pools
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Awesome project, we can see how important is water
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
ua-cam.com/video/glz-Pm6HUG0/v-deo.html
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.
The water crisis is man made because liberal courts order the spillways at the dams to be kept open all the time.
Then California is wasting water by diverting it to areas just for a garbage fish
Good posts really informative
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
My boy Dallas Raines made it onto B1M.
I can’t watch Dallas. The tan is just awful.
Captain Renault: “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling (corruption) is going on in here.” "Your winnings, sir".
The shocker is that its all stolen from northern cali farmers and we are in a "drought" because of that cesspool !!
WoW, that's an interesting vid.... cheers to you @B1M 🤟✨
Doheny..
-It’s Pronounced-
-Dough-Heee’Neee’-🙏.
Spot-On-Awesome Video.
Thank you. JamesC.
From Los Angeles.. LBZ🙏
He also said "Tuh-JUNG-ga" and I died a little inside.
Was just thinking of re-watching Chinatown yesterday
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.
Anything to raise the cost of home ownership. 🙄
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.
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 ✊🌳
The movie "Chinatown" told us about this in detail a half century ago.
7:25 - Two-Jung-Ga 😆🤣🤣
Nature may be the best solution California will have to get enough water.
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.
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.
Never heard this story until today! Very interesting and another great video!
They re building to many apartments in Los Angeles. It’s over crowded
Interesting topic, watching now! Any comments posted before this have never watched the goddamn video 😅
6:48 Pretty cool! Never knew the L.A. county began collecting storm water.
I knew about the Sierras but not local containment.
Thanks for the info… very neat
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!
Gee who woulda thunk it, making a place livable for Nature would also make it more livable for people
This is still happening today at every level of government
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.
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!
Great video! Look into Cerro Gordo too, above Owens Valley. The real reasons LA exists in the way it does today.
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.
Why not have rain water capture containers built all over, like they do on the Big Island???
As always a very enjoyable watch 👍
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.
Do people drink it? What do they do with it?
Many cities and counties have outlawed water capture.
@@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.
@@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.
I'm glad LA city council finally knows about the water cycle, which we all learned about in second grade science
LADWP destroyed the Owen’s valley.
Humans destroyed the world 🌎 🤔.....chicken and egg 🥚 conundrum
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.
Robert Towne just died. He wrote CHINATOWN
Loved this, fascinating 👏
"There it is. Take it."
If you want an awesome story, read Water to the Angels.
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…
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.
Guys, I enjoy your videos. Really interesting, thx.
LA wouldn’t be a city if it didn’t take everyone else’s water.
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.
A good book that goes into more detail about LA's early beginnings is called, "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water".
LA is next to basically limitless water
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!
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.
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 UA-cam.
Me hanging out and randomly saying
“Subscribe to the B1M”
My wife - what?
Nothing.
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!!!!
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.
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.”
@@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.
Your about 15 miles from the Pacific ocean LA, plenty of water there! Start on those desalination plants but it will cost ya!
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.
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.
@@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".
Not gonna lie, the thumbnail is a little trippy when you first look at it 😂
Gotta love the those who look at a waterless land and say, "Hey, lets have millions live here!"
Isn't rain water run off typically highly contaminated? Hope they're not using it for drinking...
More stormwater presentations please.
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.
if anything, adapting to new circumstances is key to survival
Obligatory shocked face -> 🙄
5:50 record snowfall in the High Sierra the past three years?
Love your channel. FYI - Tujunga is pronounced with an “H” sound where the letter “J” is
I’ve lived in LA, Sherman Oaks, the Valley, for 40 years. Looking to leave now.
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.
Its funny how most of people never think about where the water comes from, you just turn on the tap.
I live in L.A. and have not seen any of the (very important) projects this video talks about. I think the issue, and this is a real issue, can be solved much quicker and cheaper by 1. Simply perforate the bottom of the storm drains so that some water can seep into the ground. 2. Require homeowners (like me) to collect rainwater and let it slowly seep into the ground. This can even be done with temporary structures during the 3-month rainy season. Will these suggestions solve the water issue - well, it certainly does not make it worse.
All the new construction I see has french drains in the front yard. There is a big perferated tank underground that collects the rain water and slowly lets it seep into the ground.
@@jamestucker8088 interesting. I did not know that. But we need something similar for all the millions of houses that are not new construction.
8:44 - "Daveyyy! How you doing?"
8:29, nice place to live if I’m lucky. 😂 where is that? What’s the location?
Hollywood Reservoir
He needed rent money😂😂😂