Posted on 07/26/2025 9:45:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The effort to bring water sometimes hundreds of miles to serve the needs of the city of Los Angeles has resulted in engineering marvels, no small degree of controversy, and one great disaster.
Los Angeles Water and the St Francis Dam Disaster | 16:16
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered | 1.57M subscribers | 75,829 views | January 13, 2025
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Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.
Ignored the danger sign and suffered the consequences.
Engineering failure.
They need to call that israeli company that does desalinatoin plants, call one of the 4th gen SMR companies and start putting compact plants on the coast.
Tragic how often engineers are ignored by authorities that are not engineers.
They hire engineers for their expertise and advice and then decide to ignore it. Good money (taxes) before bad decisions. Someone pays a price for the resulting bad outcomes. Victims with their lives and treasure principally. But I don’t know of any authorities that ever did.
Yeah, my post was a disaster.
highly, highly recommend this book.
https://margaretlesliedavis.com/rivers-in-the-desert/
Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
By Margaret Leslie Davis
The Challenger disaster is another example.
Authorities overrode engineering concerns.
Thx abb.
“start putting compact plants on the coast”
Why bother? So we can end up subsidizing Greater Mexico?
Be plenty of water in California if we had the population of 1970, or even 1980. Hell, even then, the same clowns were screaming DROUGHT! GLOBAL WARMING!
That was 20 million Mexicans ago.
No point in spending more money to solve the problems of the neolithic narco state next door.
Whoops, forgot the link: The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
Best location for it would be near the Salton Sea, with a view of extracting the lithium from the water, and using the clean water to run a trickle irrigation system for refoliation and agriculture. P.S. the Israelis have expertise in trickle irrigation. It grew out of having the kibbutz kids do the hand watering in the Negev, a small bit of water on each plant (out of an old can or whatever was around), hilled up, and when the row got done, they’d refill the can and start again. Tremendous results, saved tons of water, and the hilling meant the accumulated salts in the soil would get washed down and out.
Thikol made the boosters. The engineer from Thikol advised NASA not to launch due to the cold temperatures that would affect the seals on the boosters. He was ignored and unfortunately he was correct.
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