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CRY ME ONE Once the city’s main water source, the Los Angeles River is now a concrete channel fed by storm drains. City residents rely on water piped in from hundreds of miles away.
Less a river, more a channel.
(Photo: Edward Burtynsky / National Geographic via the Boston Globe)