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The 9th annual student poster contest promotes conservation of water and energy
June 1, 2021
California
Eight decades ago, as William Mulholland watched the first torrents of Owens River water cascade down to Los Angeles, the famed aqueduct builder uttered these words: “There it is.
July 2, 1994
If the San Fernando Valley secedes from the rest of Los Angeles, residents in that region will pay higher water and electric bills, the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said Wednesday.
March 4, 1999
The program will offer up to 300 gallons of disinfected water per person per visit, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power says.
July 28, 2022
In the flat scrublands of western Utah, the mighty city of Los Angeles--which already draws water 300 miles from the High Sierra--has begun to collect the bounty of its latest foray into the distant West in search of natural resources.
June 12, 1987
Even if most San Diegans favored the move, it would still take a special act of the Legislature to permit the San Diego County Water Authority to acquire San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and retain local control over the giant utility, a water authority spokesman said.
Dec. 10, 1988
The state Water Resources Control Board, after exhaustive hearings and extensive study, has determined that to protect the Mono Basin’s unique environment there is need to cease exporting virtually all water from the basin for at least the next 20 years and raise the lake level another 17 feet (Sept. 18).
Oct. 2, 1994
More than four square miles of downtown Los Angeles, including 30 of the city’s tallest office towers, lost electrical power most of Tuesday morning after a massive pre-dawn fire exploded through a city utility station, officials reported.
Oct. 7, 1987
Still-powerful remnants of former Hurricane Nora invaded Southern California from Mexico Thursday, triggering floods, knocking out electrical power, snarling traffic and generating tide-boosted waves that swamped several homes in Seal Beach.
Sept. 26, 1997
In the back of a storage garage behind Fire Station 3 downtown, carefully preserved since 1905, there is a noble experiment in firefighting engineering that failed.
Jan. 3, 1986