Mulholland Villain Or Visionary Analysis

The character Richard Rich did not start out corrupt in the beginning of the play, but became corrupt with prospect of becoming wealthy and

Along this journey created by nature, the river interacts with man’s influence to encapsulate the full geographic experience of this region. The succession of dams along the river’s path is a major contribution to how man has decided to mesh with the river. The dams have created reservoirs for water supplies, harnessed energy to provide electric power to the southwestern region, and controlled flooding. Flood control was the main concern at the time between the years 1905 and 1907 when large floods broke through the irrigation gates and destroyed crops in California. The flooding was so large it actually created a 450 square mile sea, named the Salton Sea. As a result of this major disaster, ideas were formulated to

With the rapid population growth during the year of 1902, Los Angeles had a larger demand of water than what they could provide and searching for a way to bring water was a must. William Mulholland, superintendent of the Los Angeles City Water Company, began to search for a new supply. He started looking on nearby local areas but it generated to nothing. In his search for a new source, he began by surveying all the rivers and groundwater basins south of the city. He found groundwater regulated and being used by agriculture. Additional groundwater use would limit the expansion of the neighboring country, which was the main basis of wealth of the area. Mulholland concluded Los Angeles would have to look elsewhere.

The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that transports water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the valleys in Northern and Central California to Southern California. The over 400-mile aqueduct is the primary feature of the California State Water Project.

Yet, humans have limited control on natural events, so this only reinforces the importance of managing water wisely. Recently California’s government has begun to focus more on sustaining and restoring the water supply. Dale Kasler (2016) articulates in his article some of the steps they have decided to make to solve this serious issue. The government has made the following investments: “$415 million for watershed restoration and other environmental aid for Lake Tahoe; up to $335 million for two proposed reservoirs in California, including the Sites reservoir north of Sacramento; $880 million for flood-control projects on the American and Sacramento rivers in Sacramento; and $780 million for flood-control projects in West Sacramento” (para. 10). This could be the first step to restoring the water to California. But these

The tides shifted years later when a new, more powerful group found interest in the natural resources of the Owen Valley territory. At the time, Los Angeles, California was a growing metropolis, and of major capitalistic interest to California (with significant ties to the political leaders of the United States as high up as the president). With the population of Los Angeles out growing its water supply,

For this paper water structures and infrastructures were selected as focus points because the longer we wait to fix issues with them, the more expensive it will get, in other words, we are in a race against time. Studying the past it is easy to see how water availability made population explode in an area such as Southern California, where savvy marketing and great politics made it happen. Particularly, for Los Angeles and for the purposes of public narrative, Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert does a great job at understanding and identifying the politics and key figures in getting water to Los Angeles. Great hydrologic structures were created using both manpower and water politics. It is important to state that there are connections between water, politics, environment, and geography when analyzing what the biggest problems involving water structures and infrastructures (Reisner.) We must think of water as both a socio-political issue and a natural resource, whose fate is molded by the understanding of its connectivity to itself, man-made structures, geography, environment, and society. The classes taken in this program have taught us ideals that in order to become a great water resource manager, one must master the political and scientific knowledge to make decisions that are prosperous for society and the environment. Furthermore, one must know the United States’ hydrological history in order to gain manipulation upon the system that makes it both thrive and deteriorate.

Another challenge for people is when you have to transport water from one place to other places for them not to dry up like the Colorado River in El Mayor Mexico. For example the Colorado River some of its water is transported ported through, eastward across the Rocky Mountains to Denver and other cities in Colorado. The Colorado River Aqueduct carries water to metropolitan Los Angeles, and the Central Arizona Project supplies the Phoenix and Tucson areas.” The American canal provides water for the Imperial Valley of southern California, the imperial valley is very active for

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Envision yourself, about to complete a straightforward, everyday thing such as washing the dishes, suddenly to your surprise there is no water coming out of the faucet. Well for the civilians of East Porterville this is their reality. California has always had very lenient and ineffective groundwater regulations. Today, this has become a major issue, especially with California's severe drought. The regulation of the aquifer is a necessity because cleanliness is a basic human right and by not regulating the groundwater and leaving civilians with no working water, that right is taken away. The right to bathe, wash your hands, and have a working toilet is simply no more. Furthermore there are scientific statements, proving that excessively pumping groundwater will lower the water levels, which will likely lead to the land level sinking as well.

Owens Lake was a very big lake full of water in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada.Before all of this happened Owens Lake used to be a very beautiful lake full with water as shown in the picture above.Now that all the unfortunate water events happened all the water is gone.One of the unfortunate events was the water wars,in the water wars various people were breaking each others ways of getting water while all the water from it just went to waste. The water wars was over William Mullholland taking the water from Owens Lake and also, Mullholland tricking the people of Owens Valley to take their water rights telling them that it was going to benefit them , but it really benefited Los Angeles.

When they finally got the dam built they could now start to allow for the construction of other dams and irrigation systems farther down river. Also another great thing of the dam is it helps with agriculture and with making more building for what they need and it help in a way way big difference with the flooding. The year this happened was the year 1931 was when this dam went up. But a little before that in the year 1912, and it seems over time the irrigation started and the siphon was made this year of 1912 but that actually attracted more and more people. That means that the state will grow I’m population and other products. But with the “Steamboats still cruised up the Colorado River from Mexico, packed with goods, when the bureau started building the Laguna Dam around 1906.” But during the year of 1994 we made a treaty with mexico with the 1.5MAF of water in Colorado River to share with Mexico. “Today nearly 17 million people depend on the Colorado’s waters.” All american canal serves the Palo Verde Imperial irrigations also the yuma project lands in imperial and coatehand valley. Also the present perfected right- Palo Verde Imperial irrigation district and Reservation Division, Yuma project California division (non-indian portion) has present perfect rights. But for the Colorado River actually dried up at one point, the people really relied on the river and water, but sadly the water takes a long time

In Merced County, farm leaders are trying to stop two private landowners from selling as much as 7 billion gallons of well water to farmers in another county” (Source 3). Nevertheless, California should not manage the groundwater for this reason framers would not be able to stay in this job, prices would be high and the state would have a percentage of hunger people and they would be able to afford the kind of food from the agricultural crops.

Up until the 1900s in America, private companies exclusively controlled the utility services. Then, during the early 1900s, American citizens began lobbying for government control over utilities. In response, the federal government created the Bureau of Reclamation, designed to bring water to the deserts and harness aqueous power to generate electricity. One of the most successful endeavors in this objective was the Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel and a public works success story. Behind that famous icon is a lesser-known one: John L. Savage, civil engineer. His modesty and reserve belied a sharp intellect and ambition, traits that carried him to the top of his field and beyond. Born and raised in Wisconsin, he rose from a modest upbringing to obtain a college education. He then worked his way up the ranks in the Bureau of Reclamation on merit, genius, and determination to become a world-renowned dam expert. Although Savage was the most important and reluctantly visible civil engineer of his age, “he was, bottom line, the engineer’s engineer” (Weingardt). John Savage is the true American civil engineering icon, pioneering innovative techniques to construct icons in their own right that affect people worldwide.

Having contaminated water is bad but on the other hand not having it period is even worse. California suffered from a major drought over the Summer and finally regained lots of lost water in just a short period of time. “Towns were notably