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What is the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (or MWD)?
This water agency was formed in 1928. It now is the largest State Water Project contractor, providing water to over 19 million Californians.
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Who is Kevin Kostiuk?
The future owner/operator of Bearded Brews, Inc.
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What is Hyperion?
This wastewater treatment plant discharges enough treated wastewater into Santa Monica Bay each day to fill up the Rose Bowl over two and half times?
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What is 560?
(60 + 500 = 560)
Gone in ____ Seconds plus ____ Days of Summer.
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What is the Sacramento River?
This river is California's largest, and also was the site of North America's first ever salmon cannery in 1864.
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Who is Malinna San?
West coast transplant whose FedEx shipments always arrive on time.
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What is I&I or Infiltration and Inflow?
(Aye Aye).
Sailors probably weren't thinking of this abbreviation for water that flows into the sewer collection system due to stormwater runoff and other reasons when they were talking to their ship captains.
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What is 77?
(11 * 7 = 77)
Both from 1960: Ocean's ____ times The Magnificent ____.
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What is the Rainbow Trout?
This trout species was originally discovered in California's rivers, but it now is the most popular sportfishing species and is stocked in lakes and rivers all over the world.
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Who is Arisha Ashraf?
The Doctor is in the house.
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What are Total Suspended Solids or TSS (Master of Suspense)?
Alfred Hitchcock was probably not being referred to as the TOTAL master of THESE SOLIDS in water that can be trapped by a filter.
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What is 16?
(28 - 12 = 16)
Number of Days or Weeks Later in this zombie flick less the number of Angry Men in a room.
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Who is Pat Brown (or Edmund G. Brown)?
The California Aqueduct is officially named after this California Governor.
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Who is Steve Gagnon?
Licensed in Arizona to teach Physical Education (or something like that).
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What is toilet to tap?
This not-so-flattering moniker for direct potable reuse will probably make you never want to drink tap water again, but it might sound appealing to your dog.
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What is 14?
(42 / 3 = 14)
Jackie Robinson's Documentary divided by the number of Stooges.
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What is Tulare Lake?
This lake in the San Joaquin Valley used to be the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. west of the Mississippi, but it is now completely dried up due to water diversions.
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Who is Sanjay Gaur?
Saw a Dead-Head Sticker on a Cadillac.
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What is a Lien (Lean on me)?
Bill Withers was probably not thinking of this consequence that happens when you don't pay the sewer portion of your property tax bill.
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What is 0?
(13 - 13 =0)
Mrs. Voorhees' least favorite day minus the mission number from this movie about a daring NASA lunar expedition.
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