"Met endured that turmoil but faces even more trouble now. For reasons of pride and recent legislative prodding, the district must give current and future customers '100 percent assurance that retail-level demands can be satisfied under all foreseeable hydrologic conditions.' Shorn of jargon, that's a politically necessary promise to fill your tub, crockpot and water glass regardless of global warming, drought, the draining of the Colorado by new Arizona and Nevada boomtowns or the anticipated arrival of at least 6 million additional Southern Californians by 2025. And none of them will have a clue about the sources of their water or how water is managed—the real Chinatown-like aspect of living here."
In the Los Angeles Times Book Review, D.J. Waldie reviews Steven P. Erie's Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California.
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