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How California’s empty swimming pools changed youth culture.
Words by Stephanie d’Arc Taylor. Photograph by Barbara Alper/Getty Images.

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How California’s empty swimming pools changed youth culture.
Words by Stephanie d’Arc Taylor. Photograph by Barbara Alper/Getty Images.

Los Angeles is a city that isn’t meant to exist. Approaching the metropolis by land you pass through desert. It’s dry, hot and arid. The only natural vegetation is that which clings to the sea-facing mountains, fed by mist that burns off as it travels inland. The water that feeds the palm trees and swimming pools—and which extinguishes the annual fires that the city is known for—is pumped hundreds of miles via the Mulholland Aqueduct, a scandalous piece of infrastructure

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Five

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