You are not required to write a blog post for this module, but please take notes because you’ll need them for Module 10.

Step 1: Read the following articles.

• California Water Wars
• Los Angeles Aqueduct
• And this century: L.A. getting no Owens Valley runoff for first time since 1913

Step 2: Choose one of the following sets of resources to explore, and take notes that begin to answer the following questions:

• Among the various documents and images, which are primary sources, and which are secondary sources?
• Whose voices and perspectives are represented in these documents? Whose voices and perspectives are not represented?
• Who won the debate, and why? Whose voices were most powerful/listened to, and why?
• With which perspective(s) do you find yourself siding?
• What habits, beliefs, and values do the articles and documents reveal?

Set 1: San Francisco

• Explore the debate over the damming of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley between 1908 and 1913 by reading the short introduction, then exploring these documents collected by the National Archives.

Set 2: Los Angeles

• Explore the resources at LA Aqueduct Centennial, paying careful attention to which agency authored the site.
• Kahrl, “The Long Shadow of William Mulholland”
• Gomez et. al., “Owens Valley as an Environmental Hazard”
• There It Is—Take It! (audio)