How Los Angeles is Restoring its Ancient River System into an Urban Green Oasis
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- Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California with a population of 3.8 million. The climate is classified as a Mediterranean, with hot dry summers and mild winters. Most rain occurs during the winter and early to mid spring.
However, since the 2000s, the people in Los Angeles have been affected by ever increasing droughts. The longest recorded drought in California lasted 6 years between December 2011 and ending March 2017. As the demand for water increases and as droughts continue, California's water supply has been dropping to historically low levels. California's interconnected water system serves over 30 million people and irrigates over 2,300,000 of farmland. Through a complicated web of dams, aqueducts, and pipelines which moves the water across the state, drawing from 157 million acres of land spanning across eight states. It is said to be the world's largest and most productive water system, making California’s watersheds one of the most altered on earth, which in turn has had a detrimental effect on the natural environment.
In the city of Los Angeles, groundwater represents close to one-tenth of the water supply and the majority of the city's water supply once flowed through the Los Angeles aqueduct. Now, over 50% flows through the Colorado river aqueduct, which can deliver 1 billion gallons of water per day to Southern California.
80% of the rainwater that Los Angeles receives runs out to the sea, mainly due to the impermeable surfaces of the cityscape, such as paved sidewalks and tarmac roads that allow water to rapidly drain into the flood control system, and eventually flows out into the ocean. Its estimated that around 25-30 billion gallons of stormwater from the Los Angeles river watershed is drained into the ocean each year.
Los Angeles is geographically situated in a flood plain where the Los Angeles rivers flows and before the opening of the Los Angeles aqueduct, the river was the primary source of fresh water for the city. Due to rapid industrialization in the last century the Los Angeles river became heavily polluted from agricultural and urban runoff, which has had a negative impact on the health of the residents and the environment.
However the city of Los Angeles have been turning this around in this video, we will show you how the local residents of LA city have been transforming the Los Angeles river, using natural based solutions to restore the watershed, improving the lives of hundred of thousands of people by increasing biodiversity and improving water security.
Find out more through: Friends of the LA River
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You might want to watch how a city demomished a freeway to restore and ancient river ▶️
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They've ignored most of the opportunities to harvest rainwater a la Brad Lancaster/Tucson AZ is doing...
There is still a lot of problematic concrete glare and impermeability that needs to be addressed. LA planning is more about control than good practices.
Love a before and after video. Rewatched several times already.
Thank you for removing the obvious links (and thinly-veiled ones, too).
Hell.yeah keep restoring nature
Nature is wise, we need to support her, instead of interfering with her.
It's funny that devastating floods in the 30's created the post apocalypitical iconic cement hell that is the LA "river". A river is such a beautiful soothing healing thing for a city to have and to encase it so in cement is a crime against nature and humanity. I am glad that change has been coming since the 80's. Now with devastating droughts of the 2020s and loss of salmon habitat the awareness of the power of swaling the river to absorb to groundwater and grow plants to cleanse the water, create parks that heal the soul of humans and animal life, river saving makes even more sense. Power to the river savers. Power to cement removals.
Every river and every yard in every city, town or hamlet on our rock
LA can also remove massive amounts of concrete from school grounds. They can also plant trees lining sidewalks.
They could employ rainwater harvesting techniques to keep down irrigation costs and bioswales. They could plant native food trees in the bioswales and add that to school lessons.
I'm so with you on that. Most LAUSD school playgrounds look like big, paved parking lots. Always wondered why they didn't convert them into mini parks with sportng fields, grasses and trees. Would surely benefit the kids and the entire communities.
@@b_uppy they actually have installed Rain Catching devices on the LA river. And there multiple projects thru out the city.
@Ash2theB
Look up Brad Lancaster and all you can do in urban and rural landscapes. LA is still thinking way too small. They can do improvements that help homeowners rather than just taking money to aggrandize themselves
Woah stop being so woke. That wokeness will be the downfall of America. We don't need to reform anything, the west has been doing an exceptional job conserving water!
#stopwokeness
I live next to a bike path that runs parallel to a 7-mile river, and I must say that I enjoy riding my bike there daily. It has improved my life and general quality of life compared to the concrete LA suburb I lived in. I've lost weight, and my heart health is much better than it used to be.
Where, really where. THe bike path in the area near Glendale is filled with Homeless tents. I see one bicyclist a year in that area. Maybe there is a clear patch in Frogtown.
They need to do a lot more. They need to adopt practices that Brad Lancaster did in Tucson AZ.
The regreening also cools the heat island effect.
LA still has a glaring amount of impermeable concrete, as do the canals.
Love looking at all that new green space in contrast to CONCRETE...
Bioswales for the city :)
@@LeafofLifeWorld
And And all the benefits they bring! Give me those curb cuts, too!
It'll happen. But it will take a long time. We need to come to grips with that. The problem with LA being a mostly democratically run city is that this will happen SLOWLY. Over the course of decades. Not as quickly as any of us would like. I suppose the bright side to look upon is that this is happening at all. California is not historically known for its "smart ecological decision-making." So this video is one of the rare examples of actual improvement.
@@jacob4920
It may happen quickly but they will build in failures so they are again perceived as 'needed' to rescue with huge, poorly executed expenditures.
I just saw the Brad Lancaster because of your comment. Well worth my time. Thank you!
They need to capture more rain water.
They could do more on a house by house, street by street basis. Bioswales are important filters. Could offset the food deserts in many larger cities, too.
@@b_uppy It is true that we can always conserve more, but we also need to capture our rainwater before it goes out to sea, and recycle waste water into drinkable water. Food deserts on the other hand are a socio-economic problem. If a grocery store chooses not to operate there, it is their prerogative, and informed by their profit margins being constantly in the negative, due to high crime, violence against employees, and rampant shoplifting.
Isn’t that illegal?
@@Mike-gz4xn in some places. But it shouldn’t be.
@alelx jines nope. Reduction in population equals recessions and more pollution. Pulling societies to first world status would reduce the most pollution. You’ve been lied to.
In San Antonio Texas we do this, not only with the river walk but the creek ways here have been turned into parks and it benefits the residents greatly ! I’m glad to see LA doing something to help the environment and people
Yeah, but you don't know LA. This will be used for violence. The parks are going to be claimed by the locals gangs. Homeless will move and and there will be nothing the cops can do.
I wish we could do that too. I live near a creek called Coyote Creek. It serves as the border between LA and Orange Counties, and is the largest tributary of the San Gabriel River, which itself is also encased in concrete. The Coyote Creek is completely encased in concrete, but the thing is there are bike lanes on both sides, meaning that you can bike up to the hills where the creek originated if you want, or head south to the beach. I really, REALLY hope to see Coyote Creek be returned to nature too. I cross it at least once a week, and on clear days, you can see Mt. Baldy perfectly. It’s such a beautiful sight to drive over the bridge
in say December and see the backdrop Mt. Baldy covered in snow behind the concrete creek. When it rains, all our rain water is funneled through these creeks and becomes a muddy mess floating with plastic that makes its way to the ocean. If it was replanted, these native trees and plants could absorb the water, cool the surrounding environment, and even naturally replenish our underground aquifers. You get my point, we need to restore our rivers.
@@intreoo
Read about how Brad Lancaster changed his property, then his neighborhood, then his city of Tucson, Arizona.
He not only included rainwater harvesting, he added trees, and shrubs that produce native, local produce.
He's lowered watering costs for many, as well as reduced heat island effect, decreased food scarcity, added beauty, walkabout and reduced crime even. It reduces downstream flooding, too.
The way he did it is very low cost to implement.
Great work 👏
Hey Texan. Houstonian. Yes I’m glad we voters approved the Buffalo bayou revamp long ago it’s my favorite park now. The LA river looks so sad 😭
Need to do that all over California
Most places west of the Mississippi could do this.
People were always so quick to concrete everything. I'm glad that now everyone is trying to go green again.
So happy that this is happening, will make Californias largest city more what it should be. A livable space with less human over thinking.
In their case overthinking equals over-kill...
lol. This "river" is now lined with homeless camps
How long before it is a sewer?
The whole city has become a sewar
Geting the most out of those carbon offset credits? Now if all the lawns would go back to natural gardens. And if they close all the golf courses. Well and Nestle bottle water plants...
Have you seen videos about Brad Lancaster?
Golf courses could stay but most yards the lawns are decorative. Nestle could be ousted. Who's Well?
Who is still going golfing in drought, they need to be given a climate criminal badge
@@LeafofLifeWorld
Add some trees for cooling and carbon sequestration. Win-win. Golfers will go golfing in the morning to avoid heat, which is what I think you meant.
What is more criminal are the remodeling and home building shows that never promote sound ecological practices. THAT is a travesty...
@@LeafofLifeWorld
And add bioswales to those golf courses!
@@LeafofLifeWorld the company I work for is developing sustainable golf courses adapted to help fight the climate crisis while also still giving us golfers our slice of heaven
Since California loves to spend Tax Dollars wilynily....I'd really appreciate it if the State created a Department of Permaculture and actually let them do their job. It will save California.
AGREED.
Yes, California definitely needs another government department with a huge budget and no accountability for results. Too little government is definitely the problem.
Californians do pay taxes for this project.
@@typhoonsd9720
Think you missed the point entirely.
@@harsectinal
Take it's what happens when you get people in love with centralized government...
Why let the large amount of rainwater run to the ocean? Most of these rainwater should be distributed to different parts of California instead.
Because the people who run California are really dumb. They claim they care about the environment but only harm it.
It always makes me laugh when governments try and control the weather by constantly harping the global warming/carbon emissions narrative when they can’t even clean up and restore less than 60 miles of creek (river). Change starts small and in your own home first before you want to control the weather around the world. My hats off to the hard working people who clean up this stretch of river and strive to give it its life back.
What was the thought process to pave the river? After diverting water from desert rivers, deciding it was a drought cause there was never enough, then making the river sealed so the water goes straight out and none of it recharges the aquifer?
In the 19th and early 20th century the L.A. river was prone to flooding, causing significant economic damage. In the 1930s the Army Corps of Engineers paved the river to prevent future floodings. This was the one and only goal. Although I'd like to see the restoration of the river, to the credit of the Army Corps, their flood control system has worked for some 80 years.
@@orion7763 We've had flooding well into the late 20th century and we'll have it again. Nothing has really changed. We are in a natural drought state, with intermittent bursts of flooding in some years.
@@orion7763 Working well, no water and everything is on fire. But hey my feets dry.
Also, real estate developers hate the idea of public spaces they can't sell. Recharging the aquifer on a large scale would require a lot more area for soak back basins. These could have been parks but then nobody would have made money selling houses there.
@@thku4grace do you want to see what this river would do right now without concrete. 😑
That’s beautiful. I live in Houston and yeeeeears back we voted to put monies into Buffalo Bayou and it’s now a gem. Any pic you see of our skyline usually has that beautiful park where it’s a skate park, lots of concerts, etc on top of flood help. I think LA would benefit.
The Muddy River in Boston is an example of this plan (the fens.) First designed by Olmsted in 1880s as fake natural river and flood plain park, part was filled in and put in culverts in 50s, this caused flooding and closing of the D extension of the green line subway every storm. It was dug back up and a large river section an park created, restoring original design. Currently dredging downstream, removal of much of the 18' tall invasive phragmites.
So this rewilding in Boston too, but the original idea and first time tried out was 130 years ago, great and happy being done... But it was innovative in 1890s, wish had been recognized and done everywhere for the last hundred years.
Good to see LA do this. The San Diego River in San Diego is also being restored but it was never made into a concrete channel like this so it is less work. Urban rivers are vital to the local ecosystem.
Great idea. Love the changes they've already made and look forward to seeing more. Well done to them.
According to Jimmy Carter 1979,
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I am so happy to see this! I grew up in LA in the 50's, before the creek (I wouldn't call it a river) was cemented over. Used to run around in it with my buds and enjoyed the trees and brush and grasses. Played a lot of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn down there... between Bell and Bell Gardens. Simpler times for sure.
What got me was the fact that 10m gallons of water gets flushed away. Water that can be used for thr city and CA
That’s awesome
Man I wish all the LA river still had all the trees and bushes that you mentioned. Would love to see it in todays LA river
@@miguelvillanueva6542 What the people are doing with the river north of LA is what needs to be done with all of it. It was cemented to reduce the mess/danger created when it flooded. I once was able to dip my hand into the river, over the stub wall on the levee, between Gage Ave and Florence Ave.
@@snuffysmith6058 do you still want to dip your hand in it. Its not a creek. It is a river.
Its baffling how much they destroyed in there state.
Use thirsty cement it reduces flooding and increase groundwater and it is made just like normal cement but missing the sand.
Also how haven't they figured out tell now trees help water stay longer and evaporate less.
A much needed good news story, and such an impressive community initiative. Love what people can achieve when they’re truly passionate about something so important!
The army engineering corp is definitely the hero of it. Redirecting water out of the river and cleaning it maybe but building in it?? Theres a reason why that river is so big.
I love how we say Los Angelease.
It makes sense that in the 1930s they thought channeling water to the ocean to save flooding would work. but now we know better, we need to obsorb and control water where it lands. Although the situation is dire, there is hope. it is not like we have done a lot of work and results are the same. There is a lot of hope for LA to turn into a city that respects in natural environment and conserves water.
Thank you for restoring the natural environment.
Concert river-beds lead to no need for concrete river-beds. The old saying, "A day late and a dollar short", applies here.
Thank You for the great work, I am proud for being an LA citizen!!!!!!!
The rain runoff could be used to fill groundwater recharge ponds or even lakes that might dry up over summer. That way, much more of the runoff could be 'channeled' into aquifers and groundwater.
Bioswales do that too. Look up Brad Lancaster.
@@thegiggler2
When many gardens have it, then it is large scale. Brad does rainwater harvestin on small and large scales. The impacts last for years, too.
During the 1930s in the Sonoran Desert the CCC made swales that are fully functional green oases that have also affected the water around them...
Major kudos L.A.citizens;great job done for a better environment for humans and the river natural animals and birds.
OMG I get the chills from those computerised voices...
All houses and buildings should have rain collecting systems, in order to store water in underground cisterns under houses patios or garages, on this way the demand from public water systems will reduce and the monthly bills 💸 and the floods less aggressive
Bioswales can pull water from streets. They can reduce the need for watering and are a lot cheaper to install.
Read up on Brad Lancaster and what he did for Tucson, elsewhere.
Brad started in his back yard first. He did curb cuts, planted mostly native species, harvests greywater, uses cisterns, etc.
When neighbors noticed how well it was working they wanted to know how to do it as well. He launched into helped them. After a few years of working out the bugs he went to the city (along with neighbors calling in) and told them of the benefits. The engineers balked, so he asked about their objections. He won them over. Tucson now legally allows curb cuts, and actively encourages it. They help pay for cisterns, and they have programs to plant native food plants.
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If the cisterns are forced to be underground they'll require pumps, digging, etc. This is a lot of expense in an area that is already expensive.
Curb cuts, etc can help hydrate parched land, reduce costs, regreen places where they have difficulty affording city water. etc. It filters street water and reduces pollution. It reduces heat islands, pavement degradation, crime, beautifies and adds food security.
I remember the visits to LA and the storm water systems in place. My thoughts at the time were clear, I thought they looked horrible, massive concrete drains are certainly not a nice look and happy to hear there is some restoration work in progress on the river.
The amount of people i hear screaming about this stuff, they suggest that the reason for lake mead drying up is somehow this and that "if they just stopped trying to protect the fish the lakes would fill up and california would become successful again"
Communities coming together to help restore a valuable place and clean up the mess we've made. Beautiful!
I’ve lived in Los Angeles since 1995. what we really need is another El Niño year of showers!
Hi...as a kid I grew up close to the San Gabriel River Bed....noticed I said river bed? There was nary a river running except El Nino years... nonetheless I spent countless hours down there... I knew every place that river held water...life just thrived around those small ponds . Fish frogs lizards and snakes all in my little wilderness in the river bed...we vacationed twice a year in northern California always spied on the little patches of green that the LA River still held on to... always a kid fishing in them. what a treat! When I started the Terrazzo trade there was a Terrazzo shop near Dodger stadium and I talked with guys that remembered the Steelhead runs that stopped in the late 50's... Steelhead in the Los Angeles River...I'd close my eyes and imagine how the river used to be...
The San Gabriel was natural north of me all the way to Duarte no concrete... the concrete started just west of I-5 about 3 miles from Telegraph Rd... Between those two spot was a concrete retaining wall on the low side held water all year long.... anyway...
That's all been taken away...it's great to see Los Angeles embrace the potential it really has....
Bring em back....wild Rainbows swimming up past downtown! Oh the joys!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA
Class of 69, Norwalk High and we called the San Gabriel river the Bamboo Jungle by Alondra Blvd. because of how much grew down there. Where Cerritos College is now was an Artesian stream and spring we'd catch frogs and madtom catfish. Used to take our bikes to Seal Beach when I was 10.
@@MountainFisher Right on! Thanks so much for sharing! That's awesome....we had a bamboo jungle to...north of Telegraph Rd in Pico Rivera and Whittier Narrows....they really we're like little jungles the bamboo would grow high and thick and people cut paths into them ....a little spooky sometimes...✌️
@@MountainFisher right by Florence Ave and I-5 Japanese farmers had a couple acres of strawberries... honest to God some we're as big as a fist! Two or three would fuse together on the vine... remember Cerritos along the 91 was lots of Dairies and farmland! ✌️
@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 Used to be called Dairy Valley, now is Cerritos or Artesia. I remember the last Japanese strawberry farm on Beach Blvd down south of Knotts Berry Farm. Two acres of farmland right on Beach Blvd. Hwy 39.
@@MountainFisher Wow! I remember that strawberry farm too! We had relatives in Anaheim ...Pop was born in Anaheim in 1918...
In the mid 1980s I was working on South St in Cerritos... remember Ethan Allen Furniture? I worked right next door at The Antique Guild. When my Pop would drive me to work we'd exit off the 605 onto South St every now and then there would be a Golden Eagle sitting on a traffic cone down there in the grass ... between the off ramp and the freeway! Yeah!
You take care out there...good luck fishing... I live less than a mile from The Feather River Fish Hatchery.. big Steelhead in the 70s... Used to spend my Summers in the house I'm in now...Dad bought it from my Aunt when he retired...Printed GTE Yellow Pages for the LA times Telephone Directory plant 37 years in Boyle heights... I-5 was at the end of my block easy commute....wish we never sold that house!✌️
Restore the natural water way's grasslands wetlands in Los Angeles California. Restoring the natural water ways and canals with diversity of plants that are native to the area of Southern and Central California will help the rain fall.
This is sooo awesome ! I hope all city’s start looking into ways to get mor water into the ground instead of wasted out to sea ! It’s amazing to see the before and after photos ! BRAVO
Where will you race your cars, if you remove this track? [Gumball Rally, Grease]
Seriously, good effort. All I am reading about recently is the lowering head of water in Lakes Powell and Mead so anything that can save water is great.
They paved a fookin river!
Hats off to "Friends of the River" These sort of groups and people give me a lot of hope. I look forward to watching LA change.
Why do so many people not know what a drought is? I'm a 60 year old native Southern Californian and there hasn't been a single real drought in my entire life. Using a word wrongly doesn't make a statement true, it's just a word used wrongly.
It’s a drought… I’m going to go with the actual statistics and meteorologists over an old bat
@@cjthompson420 According to those "statistics and meteorologists", not to mention the politicians, California is ALWAYS in drought. By definition that's not a drought. If you have rain, by definition it's not a drought.
I refer you back to the first sentence of my original post.
@@cjthompson420 😅
Wish i could give more than one thumbs up... Great project, more over in such an urbanized area. I hope it helps
people feel good. City life can be depressing.
If ANYONE is serious about the effects of climate change, they would promote 3 solutions to adapt and reduce CO2.
1) water security to reduce the impacts of droughts. The higher on the contour water is stored the more efficiently it can be used.
2) flood mitigation. Part of the solution is also to store water high on the contour. With plenty of "air space" to catch high short term run-off. And release it over an extended time to not overwhelm drainage systems. etc.
3) nuclear power to replace fossil fuel power stations. Modular nuclear reactors could be built alongside existing power stations nearing decommissioning.
Part of the exorbitant cost of nuclear power is over the top safety precautions.
No other forms of power generation comes near to nuclear poweres minimal toxic by products and tiny carbon footprint.
I am really into this subject and wanted to watch the entire video but the VOICE...whether it is computerized or just someone bereft of any emotion with a completely flat affect...is absolutely killing me. I feel I'm stuck in the tube and London is experiencing the apocalypse. "The Underground is the only safe space, mind the gap, thank you and try not to die."
I though I was the only one, it drove me crazy
@@laom20 SAAAAAAME Also kinda weird not more people are on about this. Literally had to ctrl+f to find this comment.
You should be proud of yourselves you’re efforts help to heal our broken planet
I worked for the Army Corps of engineers taking care of the LA River removing debree and trash to make the river be as beautiful and full of life. Alot of homeless and graffiti destroying this eco system. Best job I ever had worked in the hot sun but it was a good feeling k owing I did something for my City.
I’m a crybaby, so I sobbed in happiness and hope when I saw my beloved L. A. river and all the great restoration work still going on. The shade of trees reduces heat in the area by degrees. The trees also fan the breezes and winds to add to that cooling effect. I would love to see more restoration projects.
The knock on effects of community engagement is incalculable.
So, Terminators have nowhere to race motorcycles now....
LA removed Eco Systems in the late 90s for El Niño
Guess they're hoping the climate doesn't revert to that of the 20's & 30's! I remember walking home from school in the rainy season (1950's even) when the Verdudo Wash was half full of raging water! Over time the climate or earth for that matter is not "steady state".
These people weren't here to remember. It is gonna be a laugher when the flood control channels top their banks due to all that construction they have done.... and don't forgot all the homeless people that now live in there.
I’m in complete shock they haven’t been storing rainwater forever….
You know where you live, had a drought and you just kept running the rainwater back to the ocean…glad to see changes happening for you all
The Pacific Ocean doesn’t need excess water! What river water isn’t used for LA needs ought to be diverted to the Imperial Valley, where the need for river water is in demand. Than whatever remains is fleshed out into the Salton Sea
And our river is beautiful today. A huge difference from when I grew up here.
Nothing is more beautiful on this planet then rivers and streams. Nothing is more ugly than concreate. Glad to see changes are happening! Animals will be thanking us.
In South Gate there’s a project along the river to make a fruit park. Trees that provide fruits to the community.
Such an important video!. But who on earth chose the speaker?. And who did the audio?.
Maybe check our community posts if you want to learn more about who is behind the channel
Well los Angeles needs too build giant sisterns like Japan too catch that large amounts of run off water, instead of dumping it out into the ocean. Because with all the lakes on the Colorado River straining and down to 25% capacity. They need too stop wasting so much water, including there water that comes from the water processing systems. Before it's too late.
I would so seriously love to explore this rive bed. I've only traveled it from long Beach to Firestone never been further, yet.
I lived there in middle school
In 2001/02 and it was the worst thing ever. Dirty, smelled, people everywhere! I was so happy flying back to Kansas City for 9th grade ❤️🤟🏽
Incredible project. It'll make a huge difference. If they can capture more of the stormwater for use in drinking and agriculture, we'll be laughing too 😁
Rainwater harvesting is a huge resource that's being over looked !
@@LeafofLifeWorld for sure, and not just in LA of course. If it runs in to the oceans and isn't at least partly used on its way there, you know you have a problem :D
None of that water is for drinking. This project is for looks only.
If there is to be a "To Live and Die in LA 2", they better film it soon before the cement river is gone.
If the weather doesn’t freeze then they should have permeable pavement.
not sure why anyone ever thought concreting over a river was a good idea but at least they're fixing it now I guess
My town did something similar but with a long barren field. The town carved a bike path and walking trail and planted over 600 trees, shrubs, and wildflowers.
Fantastic project.
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hope so will be very big haily / rainy / stormy weather in los angeles to north pasadena in this summer season
What is to stop the floods that the original channel was built for?
Appears they are using Bioswales to help prepare for that. Also they are not tearing out the concrete channels, they are re-engineering them so that when they get regular rainfall they are capturing more of it then they are now.
8 States? NO, you mean 8 COUNTIES where the watershed is pulled from. The only states where water is pulled is from Nevada/Arizona through the Colorado River and within California itself.
So which 8 counties?
These measures have turned a vast area of African desert into a GREEN OASIS that stretches over 20 COUNTRIES! This has been done in 10 YEARS, including re-charging long dry underground Aquifers.
I hope Mead and Powell could become a more natural feature where they can use the WILDLY sucessful "WATER HARVESTING" from the air and fog.??
Comme quoi rien n’est irréversible. Belle initiative, bravo aux bénévoles.
Sounds like a great project and wish it luck
You just might as well do the whole entire river system what you guys are talking about doing 287 miles just do the whole thing turn out great
Very nice hope it stay like that four miles not bad
Outstanding . Thanks.
Does the stagnant water create problems with mosquitoes?
The goal of restoration is to remove stagnation; excessive stagnation creates mosquito problems; whereas a balanced ecosystem reduces them. e.g, fish eat mosquito larvae.
One of the saddest thing I’ve heard is how big people that live in LA could care less about the environment and only care about making more housing projects on beautiful parks and wild areas that really do not need more people.
That’s correct LA is destroying already 300 year old public park tree’s and areas for really nasty tall apartments. We can’t have more people there. If anything those big investors should be building those things in their own backyards.. such giant jerks in our world right now.
Wow! That's a very amazing project! I wonder how they capture these billions of gallons of water when there are heavy storm events and this rainwater wave comes like a tsunami. Might be quite expensive and sophisticated.
And is there a connection of this "re-created nature" to the water cycle of the LA inhabitants? Why not recycle slightly polluted water (from showering, handwashing etc.) by bringing it into this river system - and - if there ist enough water in store (maybe huge underground deposits)- also pull ist out again for farming, garden, toilet use?
Northern European here. I’m planning a trip to LA so i’ve been on google street view a lot. What strikes me is the amount of poor planning the city has. They should build higher and better quality buildings in order to save money on infrastructure and give space for green areas.
Oh...You should read about LA's history. There wasn't much planning at all, actually. That was part of the problem, but also part of what ended up making it a unique place. I speak as someone who moved there in 2000 and just moved up to San Francisco this year. I deeply love LA for all of its difficulties. But as a visitor with little time, it can be a difficult place to appreciate. Hope you enjoy!
@@VinciGlassArt Do you think I should rent a car or go with Uber+metro? I'm travelling with my wife and a 13 year old.
@@juholaitakari1305 Rent a car. for sure. If you want the full LA experience, you can drive out to Joshua Tree and alternately out the Malibu and Orange County Coasts, depending on how much time you'll be here. There's a LOT to see in terms of different neighborhoods within the metro area as well. I didn't get to it all in 22 years, so choose a couple of notable areas and have fun!
@@VinciGlassArt I'll rent a car 1 day minimum as i wish to drive the coastline maybe to santa barbara.. Great tips, thanks!
Fascinating!!
Great video
Having the rain water go out to sea is a huge mistake. Especially with lake Mead drying up. They are really heavily placing their chances on something that may not be around much longer
Question: with all the vegetation, is there not MORE risk for flooding now, since the water is taking longer to get to the sea? Shouldn't there be projects to slow the water, UPSTREAM of LA? By creating natural swamps or wetlands, with dams for example?
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Keep it going!
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I'd throw in a bunch of crayfish in there... great scavenger ... they'd make sure this man made oasis is clean of dead things... and you can harvest them once in a while if you want to eat them too.
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Imagine if the ancient Egyptians decided to solve the flooding problem they had by concreting over the Nile
My grandparents bought a house in Huntington Park in the 1920s. The city water came from artesian wells. I remember in the late 1960s, brushing my teeth in their bathroom, and how tasty and very cold the water was straight from the tap. Aerial views of all that concrete make very clear what happened to the aquifers, though I do know Colorado River water was diverted to S. Cal at some point, to handle the water needs of increased population. Conservation needs to be part of the lifestyle here.
Beautiful beautiful
Beautiful homeless encampment. You cannot expect them to camp in a canal, can you?
Cool video I didn’t know about this. But the removal of the worlds largest street car network alone is reason enough to pass on LA for me.
amazing
Somewhere I have a photograph from the late 1920s of my father and aunts fishing in the LA River near the Florence Avenue bridge. It seems idyllic.
The other drawback to the flood control tunnels is, of course, the giant ants.
We need to understand that being at the top of the pyramid of creation means that everything we do trickles down the structure, from top to bottom. When it reaches the bottom, the inanimate level of reality, from which everything grows, it changes it. If we ooze ill-will, it creates negative changes throughout the system, which manifest in increasingly extreme climatic and geological events.
In other words, when human relationships go out of balance, everything goes out of balance. When our relations become extreme, everything becomes extreme; when we become violent, everything becomes violent. Each summer, the ramifications of the linkage between our relations and our world become more extreme, until we acknowledge that everything that exists, exists in a connected, hierarchical system and that whoever is at the top determines the state of the rest of the system.
It is not as if previously, we were better people than we are today. It is simply that there were fewer people, and therefore fewer elements that exude ill will.
Also, relationships between people in the past were less toxic than they are today. While there are fewer wars today than ever, the levels of suspicion and alienation between people are skyrocketing, to the point where people can no longer trust their own family members. As a result, wars between countries are rarer than ever, but divorce rates, domestic violence, and violence in the community, are at an all-time high.
Even the internet, which we invented purportedly in order to connect people, is being used to abuse, deceive, and exploit people. The world-wide-web proves that everything we create, we use against others. When there is such a negative element in a system, and that element is at the top of the system, how can the entire system not go awry?
Therefore, if we want the weather to cool, the sea-level to drop, and the storms to subside, we must cool the fire and calm the storms between us. Mutual concern, mutual responsibility, or at least the knowledge that we are dependent on each other, are necessary in order to restore balance in our world at all levels, from the ground we walk on to the hatred in our hearts.
I don't understand why if we have a water shortage why is it being dumped into the ocean I'm sure we can find a way to harvest that water
it is only partially clearly visible pause number, needing to roll back & let unplay for context in video.
This is great but CA gets 58% of Colorado River water in the lower basin states and the southwest is in a horrendous drought.
Does it all get washed away in a flood? It looks like most of the inserted islands are not anchored into the foundation of the concrete river bed.