Los Angeles may store water under an Owens Valley lake drained to fill its faucets

Los Angeles may store water under an Owens Valley lake drained to fill its faucets

by Louis Sahagun

Climate change is forcing Los Angeles to consider banking some of its Sierra Nevada snowmelt in an unlikely place: Under dry Owens Lake, which the city drained starting 1913 to fill the L.A. Aqueduct and supply a thirsty metropolis.

All credit goes to Louis Sahagun
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