WATER CHASER: This week’s state cutoff of...
WATER CHASER: This week’s state cutoff of water deliveries may force folks to start scrambling for alternatives the way the Irvine Ranch did a century ago. . . . In 1891 a drought killed thousands of sheep on the ranch. But someone discovered enough of the precious liquid in the Santa Ana River bed to let James Irvine II and some ranchers keep the surviving animals alive. . . . A check of the riverbed Tuesday, though, showed it as dry as can be.
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