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Show __2__ Part IV. Domestic Water DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLY The construction of the high dam at Boulder or Black Canyon, besides accomplishing the purposes of flood control and reclamation of public lands, and besides making possible the development of a large amount of electrical energy to finance the cost of the works, will, incidentally, enable a large number of cities in southern California to secure a much needed water supply. The coastal belt of southern California includes a strip of land from 20 to 60 miles in width, bordering on the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles to the Mexican boundary, a distance of about 150 miles. It includes the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, and San Diego, south and west of the high mountains. This coastal belt has a population of more than 1,800,000. The present population of Los Angeles County is something over 1,400,000, of which more than 1,000,000 are within the limits of the city of Los Angeles. The four counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, from the standpoint of ultimate water supply are a unit. San Diego County is somewhat detached from the others and presents a unit of its own. As an incident to a remarkable development, the population in this coastal region has increased from 270,000 in 1900 to over 1,800,000 in 1925. In the same period the population of Los Angeles County has grown from 170,-000 to 1,425,000 and the population of the city of Los Angeles from 120,000 to more than 1,000,000. The population of Los Angeles has practically doubled in the past five years, having increased about 500,000 since the last Federal census. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |