Showing posts with label Owens Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Owens Valley. Show all posts
July 13, 2017

L.A. took their water and land a century ago. Now the Owens Valley is fighting back

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The Los Angeles Aqueduct, which transports water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles, was built in the early 1900s. (Los Angeles Times) ...
March 28, 2017

LADWP scrambling to prepare dusty Owens Valley for possible floods

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Overflow from the Owens River creates a mirror pond near Bishop reflecting the snow-capped Sierras. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) by...
June 6, 2016

Infamous water heist -- and hubris -- reap poison whirlwind

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Winds whip dust off the dry 110-square mile Owens Lake bed during a March 2010 storm. The lake, the site of Los Angeles’ infamous water gr...
March 7, 2015

Water grab pits Las Vegas against Mormons

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Spring Valley, which sits atop an aquifer 263 miles from the country clubs and casinos of Las Vegas, is the focus of a Nevada legal fight...
September 9, 2014

Interpreting the California Desert Landscape With Patricia Chidlaw

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Owens Lake 2012 by Patricia Chidlaw High & Dry KCET.org U nbeknownst to each other, L.A. art photographer Osceola Refetoff and Santa ...
April 20, 2014

Drought -- and neighbors -- press Las Vegas to conserve water

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Lake Mead, the reservoir that supplies 90% of Las Vegas' water, is ebbing as though a plug had been pulled from a bathtub drain. Lake Me...
May 29, 2013

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Cadiz water project

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Seven suits from three groups still pending over plan to pump Mojave Desert groundwater. By BROOKE EDWARDS STAGGS ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ...
March 6, 2013

Cadiz project bad policy, bad for economy

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Opinion By Dave Oeshner San Bernardino Sun T here continues to be a lot of misinformation about the economic benefits and environmental...
January 31, 2013

Acting on tip, federal officials recover stolen petroglyph panels

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The location of the petroglyphs, stolen from a sacred Native American site last fall, was disclosed in an anonymous letter. The tip may have...
January 9, 2013

California desert aquifers contain high chemical levels

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Sunset at the New York Mountains in the Mojave Desert. (Courtesy National Park Service) The Associated Press Tribune - San Luis Obispo ...
November 1, 2012

Environmentalists sue over Cadiz water project

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Karen Tracy of Joshua Tree protests a groundwater management plan for the Cadiz project outside a San Bernardino County Supervisors meetin...
October 5, 2012

Board Endorses LA & Orange Counties Draining Desert Aquifer

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San Bernardino County Sentinel Seth Shteir, of the National Parks Conservation Association, speaks during a protest of the groundwater man...