1980 | San Luis Reservoir, Los Baños, California
Offline reservoir along the California Aqueduct. It’s a place to store water pumped up from the Aqueduct as contingency storage, and also to collect runoff from the watershed to the west. On this day the level is very low; in California, there is no such thing as a “normal” year of rainfall – the long-term graph shows that it’s frequently boom or bust.