The Los Angeles assault on the water resources of the west
William Mulholland was born in Belfast Ireland in 1855, and died in Los Angeles at the age of 79 in 1935. He was a brilliant man.
Mulholland rose in rank quickly from being an immigrant ditch digger in the dilapidated water ditches supplying Los Angeles. In 1886, he became the Superintendent of the Los Angeles Water System.…
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HOW MUCH MUD?
Glen Canyon and all other of the other large reservoirs are each accumulating mud at a rate of 100 million tonnes annually (www.glencanyon.org / U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS)
This is 56 cubic kilometers of sediment accumulating each year world wide