Moving a river 500 km: the Los Angeles Aqueduct

Name: Moving a river 500 km: the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 22 min 59 s
Description: On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a place simply called The Cascades. It’s a deceptively simple-looking finish line: the end of a roughly 300-mile (or 500 km) journey from the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada

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