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  2. Los Angeles's 8th City Council district - Wikipedia

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    The 8th District includes the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, Chesterfield Square, Crenshaw, Jefferson Park, and other communities of western South Los Angeles. [1]The district overlaps California's 37th and 43rd congressional districts, California's 28th and 35th State Senate districts, as well as California's 55th, 57th, and 61st State Assembly districts.

  3. Los Angeles Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    In 1923, in an effort to increase the water supply, the city of Los Angeles began purchasing vast parcels of land and commenced the drilling of new wells in the region, significantly lowering the level of groundwater in the Owens Valley, even affecting farmers who “did not sell to the city’s representatives.” [55] By 1970, constant ...

  4. Wright Act of 1887 - Wikipedia

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    California made an amendment to the Wright Act in 1897, which stopped new irrigation districts from being formed. [2] The Irrigation District Bond Certification Commission, which was created in 1913, is now responsible for forming new irrigation districts. [3] These irrigation districts are public entities. [4]

  5. Bermad - Wikipedia

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    BERMAD CS Ltd. is a developer and manufacturer of residential irrigation and water management systems for mining and construction. The company was founded in 1965 as a producer of irrigation systems, mainly those found in agriculture.

  6. Central Valley Project - Wikipedia

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    1902 - Tulare Irrigation District v. Shepard irrigation district legal dispute; 1905 - Owens valley water plan okayed by Los Angeles Water Commission; 1905 - $40 million statewide irrigation plan fails to due to lack of financing support; 1905 - Salton Sea created by irrigation diversion of Colorado River

  7. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Los Fresnos sets limits on watering lawns, irrigation - AOL

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    May 19—Only have a minute? Listen instead Effective immediately, Los Fresnos is limiting when residents may water their lawns due to drought conditions. Mayor Alejandro Flores said in a media ...

  9. Irrigation districts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...