Watch Flood in the Desert | American Experience | Official Site
Narrator: At two and a half minutes before midnight on the 12th of March 1928, the lights in Los Angeles flickered. William Mulholland was asleep at his home near Windsor Square; he didn’t notice.
William Deverell, Historian: Mulholland runs an agency that is in charge of providing water for Los Angeles. He's a civil servant. Nonetheless, he's extraordinarily powerful, and he knows it.
Erika Bsumek, Historian: Mulholland is the man who brought water to the city of Los Angeles.
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