So it wasn't a desert after all, and all those people claiming 'all' of LA's problems are due to idiots building a city in the desert are just... false?
It's also not a desert climate but "arid mediterranean climate".
One million people at what level of resource efficiency? The efficiency of the 1970s, when washing machines used ~200L of water per load, and people watered their lawns with spray sprinkers, which would evaporate half the water before it touched the ground?
Or one million people using modern, water-conserving appliances, and, heaven forbid, not having evergreen lawns?
Here’s a blog by a couple of LA friends about the partly-covered LA creek network: https://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com
Smoking 20 cigs a day will.
A few people living in the dismal swamp isn't a problem.
1.2 million people is.