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Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez) [1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [2] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2). [3] The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential.
This was followed by a series of court ordered restrictions imposed on water exports, which resulted in Los Angeles losing water. [29] In 2005, the Los Angeles Urban Water Management Report reported that 40–50% of the aqueduct's historical supply is now devoted to ecological resources in Mono and Inyo counties. [37] [38]
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California reservoirs store fresh water for use in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. These reservoirs were built specifically to preserve water during times of drought, and are in place for emergencies uses such as earthquake, floods or other events.
Castaic Power Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant capable of producing 1,247 MW on peak demand. Together, Pyramid and Castaic Lakes form the primary storage for West Branch water delivered to Southern California. Water is supplied to municipalities in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. [citation needed]
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities ...
Simon, Richard (August 15, 1991), "Pipeline Plan Seen as a Pipe Dream : Water: An undersea conduit from Alaska to California would be too costly, too environmentally damaging and too 'far-out,' a congressional workshop is told.", The Los Angeles Times; U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (January 1992), Alaskan Water for California?:
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