Noah Williams
Appearances
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Going to the Source of L.A.'s Water
Are you going to leave this water here for 5,000 people in this, you know, isolated mountain valley? Or are you going to let it go to Los Angeles where 100 or 200,000 people are going to make use of it and we're going to have a metropolis? Which would you choose?
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Going to the Source of L.A.'s Water
If your principle is utilitarianism, using a resource for the most people for the most good, then it's an easy call to say, Los Angeles, you're going to get the water. And so the Owens Valley were told, sorry, folks, more people down there. They have the money. They own the water already. We are going to permit LA to do this. And so that's what happened.