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  • Coming to a farm near you: Los Angeles

    In this issue of High Country News, Matt Jenkins dives into the murky world of L.A.’s water system

    by Jonathan Thompson, Nov 12, 2007

  • Turning water inside-out

    Many Western cities like Sierra Vista, Ariz., were built beside once-beautiful rivers which were overused and then neglected, while the cities looked elsewhere for new water sources to exploit

    by Matt Jenkins, Aug 30, 2004

  • You, too, can be in the know about California's H2O

    David Carle’s Introduction to California Water is an ambitious field guide to the incredibly complicated world of California water

    by Matt Jenkins, Feb 21, 2005

  • A massive restoration program may have nothing left to save

    Fish populations are plunging in the California Delta even as the CalFed Bay-Delta Authority considers exporting yet more water

    by Matt Weiser, May 30, 2005

  • In the suburbs of Los Angeles, your futureawaits

    The neighborhoods of suburban L.A. can serve as a useful model for the West’s urban planners

    by D.J. Waldie, Aug 08, 2005

  • A whole lot of shaking

    In his book A Crack in the Edge of the World, Simon Winchester takes a comprehensive look at the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and warns of the geological perils still facing the region

    by Kirk Zebolsky, Nov 13, 2006

  • Owens River will finally get its water back

    The Lower Owens River in Inyo County, Calif., may finally get its water back from Los Angeles, thanks to a last-minute lawsuit by the state’s attorney general

    by Alex C. Pasquariello, Feb 16, 2004

  • Postscript to a water war

    Nearly a decade after Imperial Valley irrigators fought off a water grab by Texans Ed and Lee Bass, the Imperial Valley Irrigation District buys the old Bass property, Western Farms, and the water rights that come with it

    by Matt Jenkins, Mar 01, 2004

  • An L.A. story, in incidents and rhythms: A review of The Book of Want

    Daniel Olivas' novel uses magical realism to describe the lives of a Mexican-American family in Los Angeles.

    by Kathleen Yale, Jul 24, 2011
  • Will Los Angeles bring its cougars back from the brink?

    Will Los Angeles bring its cougars back from the brink?

    With just a handful of mountain lions left in the Santa Monica Mountains, Californians must decide whether they care enough about wildness to fund key habitat connections. Subscribers only

    by Judith Lewis Mernit, Mar 04, 2013

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