The Water Wars in Southern California have been happening off and on for about a hundred years, give or take. The fight between Cities, agriculture, and small communities is nothing new. More corporations, especially bottle water corporations have now joined the fray. What is new is less snow-pack and lakes to exploit. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to find a quick solution that doesn't take the affect on future generation into account anymore. Even though that seems to be the answer most still give.
Tulare the Phantom Lake
Expansion of L. A. - Destruction of Owens River & Valley
Construction of the Owens Valley Project
Owens Valley Aqueduct: WaterSupply.Com Documentary part one
part Two