Los Angeles may store water under a lake drained to fill its faucets
Sunday, December 29, 2019 - 15:00
in Earth & Climate
Quick shifts in climate have prompted Los Angeles to consider an unlikely place to bank some of its Sierra Nevada snowmelt: beneath dry Owens Lake, which the city drained starting in 1913 to fill the L.A. Aqueduct and supply a thirsty metropolis.