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@lahistory.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 5:04 PM

"By the end of WW1, Los Angeles engineers were already searching for an additional water source as the city’s population continued to grow."

"Water & Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900–1941" via @ucpress.bsky.social: www.ucpress.edu/books/water-... #waterhistory #westernwater #coloradoriver

A paragraph from the book “Water & Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900–1941” reads: The Colorado River By the end of World War I, Los Angeles engineers were already searching for an additional water source as the city’s population continued to grow. They joined with the U.S. Reclamation Service to build a high dam (Boulder Dam, or Boulder Canyon Dam, renamed Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River to store water and provide for flood control, the generation of electrical power, and several other purposes. The effort resulted in the 1922 agreement between the federal government and the seven states bordering the Colorado River to share the water for agricultural, residential, and industrial use and to compete for the hydroelectric power produced at the dam. Boosters in all of these states were interested in protecting their natural resources for use in future growth. Soon Los Angeles emerged as the leading force in the West to bring the project to fruition and obtain much of the water and resulting hydroelectricity for itself.The blue-tinted cover of the book “Water & Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900–1941”, written by William Deverell and Tom Sitton, shows the 1913 photo of opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
@lahistory.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 4:59 PM

Sept 30, 1935: Boulder Dam (renamed #HooverDam in 1947) was dedicated 91 years ago today. Los Angeles Valley College Historical Museum brochure (1928), via @archive.org: archive.org/details/cavg... #waterhistory #westernwater #OTD

A cream-colored map (1928) of the Boulder Dam Project and Colorado River Aqueduct for Southern California Cities. Map shows the path of the Colorado River and proposed Colorado Aqueduct as it flows from the Boulder Canyon Dam (in slate-blue) located on the far-right. Major Southern California cities are noted along with the path of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.