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dam-l Water resource development for LA
Dear Dianne:
I'm a junior at CSUN and taking
a California Geography class. Our final paper is on water resource
development for LA. As you probably know, LA's rate of growth is such that
new sources of water are activly being sought. Your page was the only one
I came accross that spells out some problems with building more dams.
My initial responce to your arguement was just build
diversion gutters that only allow a small percentage of the water to be
redirected. If we build one gutter from each of many major rivers in
Northern California, Oregon and Washington trying to combine them where possible
and running parallel to natural rivers we could avoid some of the
negative affecs of dams and using too much of any one
source.
I know this is naive but
reclamation, recycling, desalination,
better watershed management and conjunctive use will successfully see us
through the next decade, but if growth continues unchecked, more water will be
needed.
Unfortunately, it is very doubtfull there
will be any success on puting limits on growth.
I have not read anything on
shipping water from artic areas. The cost would probably be
overwhelming and undoubtedly lead to ecological problems there if abused.
The key word would have to be moderation. Any suggestions that
I have overlooked? Thanks for your time and consideration.
Patricia Wallace
Northridge, Ca
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