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  2. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California reservoirs store fresh water for use in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. These reservoirs were built specifically to preserve water during times of drought, and are in place for emergencies uses such as earthquake, floods or other events.

  3. List of dams and reservoirs in California - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Department of Public Works ... Mojave River Forks Reservoir: Mojave Forks Dam: Mojave River, West Fork: ... Sepulveda Flood Control ...

  4. San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains ...

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    The San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC) is an agency of the State of California in the United States with the mission of preserving open space and habitat for low-impact recreation and educational uses, wildlife habitat restoration and protection, and watershed improvements within its jurisdiction. [1]

  5. Desperate for water, a desert city hopes to build a pipeline ...

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    Plans to build a $200-million water pipeline across the Mojave Desert to supply the city of Ridgecrest are angering environmentalists, farmers and miners.

  6. Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater ...

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    Los Angeles will soon begin building a $740-million project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water in the San Fernando Valley, expanding the city’s local water supply in an effort ...

  7. Los Angeles Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    In 1930, Los Angeles voters passed a third US$38.8 million bond to buy land in the Mono Basin and fund the Mono Basin extension. [28] The 105 mi (169 km) extension diverted flows from Rush Creek , Lee Vining Creek , Walker Creek, and Parker Creek that would have flowed into Mono Lake .

  8. 'Pushed the system to the extreme': Los Angeles fires ... - AOL

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    Osbee Sangster is a 73-year-old resident who fled her Los Angeles-area home at 3:30 a.m. local time Wednesday. She noticed a conspicuous absence as fire trucks rolled through her neighborhood ...

  9. California Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    When it was open, the California Aqueduct Bikeway was the longest of the paved paths in the Los Angeles area, at 107 miles (172 km) long from Quail Lake near Gorman in the Sierra Pelona Mountains through the desert to Silverwood Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. This path was closed in 1988 due to bicyclist safety and liability issues.