Category: History Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10: 0890965099
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978090965092
Examines the origins of the long-standing dispute between the City of Los Angeles and the Owens Valley over rights to the Owens River. The city constructed a 235-mile long aqueduct 1908-13 and currently receives 50% of its water from the Owens River. Residents of the Owens Valley still believe that the water was stolen from them.
The heroic story of how a small group of people, few of them TB experts, found the cure for the greatest killer in human history. But the battle needed to be extended to all sufferers. Why have we failed to take the miracle to the developing world?