An Essential Water Deal

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 21, 2002 | staff

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Enterprising farmers began drawing water from the Colorado River in 1901 to transform the Imperial Valley desert east of San Diego into a lush agricultural empire. Today, the Imperial Irrigation District sucks as much as 3.2 million acre-feet a year from the river to irrigate 450,000 acres of cropland--nearly six times the amount of water the city of Los Angeles uses in a year.

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Generally speaking, the Right doesn't believe overpopulation is a real problem. I do (The Left - Political Correctniks - believes it is a real problem only if rich whites are the only ones required to pay for its solution)