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Solving the Water Shortage
Dreher, Carl | December 28, 1963 issue

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The article focuses on the solving the problem of water shortage. Water scarcity is confined to the underdeveloped two-thirds of the world, where the benighted natives engender more offspring than can be fed with the means at hand. When Los Angeles obtained its first major upland water supply in the Owens River Valley, a civil war was fought between the Valley ranchers and the city, with recurrent dynamiting of the aqueduct. Even the Northeast, where water is usually so plentiful that something like a third of it is wasted down the sewer, had an acute problem in 1948, and has another one now that will probably last into 1965.

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WATER-supply; WATER -- Storage; PUBLIC utilities; PROBLEM solving; CIVIL war; VALLEYS -- California; CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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