Word: aqueduct
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...means the first direct action taken by labor in Norway, the strike topped off a long series of incidents. In January a string of German warehouses were fired. In March the main aqueduct in Oslo was cut. The Germans have had repeated trouble keeping the important Bergen-Oslo railroad open. Mysterious fires, destroying German goods, continually break out all over the country...
...they poured westward across the desert, through the mountains, came at last into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
...biggest engineering projects in the U.S., the new aqueduct system has been under construction for eight years, cost $186,000,000. It has been taking shape ever since a few farseeing citizens of Los Angeles discovered 18 years ago that their supply of ground water was shrinking, that Southern California's average 15 inches of rainfall a year was not enough to support its fast-growing population...
...bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...
...main aqueduct winds, climbs and burrows 242 miles across the State. Along the way, the water runs through 29 tunnels totaling 92 miles in length, five reservoirs, 62 miles of concrete-lined canals, 55 miles of covered conduits, 29 miles of siphons, five big pumping plants which lift the water a total of 1,617 feet over hills and out of valleys...