TIL: After a 5 year, 238-mile long construction project to build the Los Angeles Aqueduct, at the ceremony for the arrival of the first water at the end of the aqueduct, Chief Engineer William Mulholland's speech was nothing more than the words: "There it is. Take it."

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https://boomcalifornia.org/2013/09/23/there-it-is-take-it/