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California's Water Wars - Exercises


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California's Water Wars - Exercises: 
Creative writing: Produce projects for authentic documents (in English) for distribution to the public. 
Try to achieve maximum realism in this task. . 
 Memory& logic: Fill in the blanks in this extract from the text, using the qualifiers (adjectives, etc.) 
listed: 
alarming / artificial / cheap / cooler / engineering / great / growing / immense / inadequate / 
interlocking / long-distance / mammoth / major / near / particularly / pollution-free / rapidly / thirsty / 
water (2) / 445-mile long / 3000 ft. / of 185 miles / 338 miles away. 
California's ______________ cities get their water via an ______________ network of dams, 
aqueducts, pipelines and wells that is one of the ______________ wonders of the world. Part of the 
______________ supply for the Los Angeles area comes from a ______________ long canal running 
south from the "Delta" area of Northern California. During its ______________ journey, the water is 
pumped up a ______________ elevation, then enters a tunnel through the mountains, before reaching 
the Los Angeles area. More water for this ______________ area is brought in along the Colorado River 
Aqueduct, over a distance ______________ ; and the City of Los Angeles also takes water from a place 
called Owens Valley, ______________ ! 
Even the city of San Francisco, in ______________ Northern California, has ______________ water, its 
supply being carried almost 150 miles from an ______________ lake in Yosemite National Park.
Yet ______________ as this ______________ system is, in years ahead it is going to be 
______________ to handle the state's ______________ ______________ population. The prospect of 
______________ ______________ problems in the ______________ future has become 
______________ ______________ .



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