Colorado River Aqueduct

Aqueduct in Southern California, USA. Part of California (Literary).

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Source	Author	Role	In one line
As the Colorado River Shrinks, Southern California Is Embracing Water Recycling	Daniel Rothberg	subject	The aqueduct carries shrinking Colorado River water to millions of Southern California residents.

As the Colorado River Shrinks, Southern California Is Embracing Water Recycling — Daniel Rothberg (2025)

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“We really kind of refer to this as our third aqueduct,” says John Bednarski, an interim assistant general manager at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — a powerful agency, as the largest wholesale provider of water in the nation and owner of the Colorado River Aqueduct.

• Role: subject
• In the article: The aqueduct carries shrinking Colorado River water to millions of Southern California residents. The piece opens with sun glimmering off it. A planned wastewater-recycling project is framed as a local ‘third aqueduct’ to reduce dependence on it.
• Why it matters: It is the infrastructure whose vulnerability motivates the whole story; the argument is about reducing reliance on it.