Joe McGuckin wrote:
Roeland,
I think you're confusing the California Aqueduct with the "Los Angeles Aqueduct". The LA Aqueduct's (designed by William Mullholland, constructed 1907-1913) gravity-flow contruction requires no pumps. It diverts eastern Sierra mountain streams from the Owens Valley and Mono Lake basin to reservoirs in the metro Los Angeles area.
Joe
[Off topic tid-bit] The water rights for this were bought secretly (& cheaply) by Mullholland using front corporations and outside agents. Farmers thought they were selling something of no value to fools, because how could the purchasers ever actually use the water without owning the land ? When the farmers in the Owens Valley found out what was really going on, they tried to dynamite the Aqueduct, because, in that area, no water rights means no crops. Now, if I could just buy bandwidth that way... Regards Marshall Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc. 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : tme@on-the-i.com http://www.on-the-i.com