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The beaches on our list generally pass water quality tests during the summer, but a few have had temporary lapses in limited spots.—Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024 The majority of beaches generally pass water quality tests over the summer (on average 95% of beaches in California do, according to environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay).—Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024 On the fourth floor of the jail, inspectors wrote that some cells had no cold water, so the inmates had rigged up a system to pass water from cell to cell using strings and plastic bottles.—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024 The only outlet for Colorado River water from the dam would then be a set of smaller, deeper and rarely used bypass tubes with a far more limited ability to pass water downstream to the Grand Canyon and the cities and farms in Arizona, Nevada and California.—Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022 But the aqueducts of ancient Rome stand out thanks to their grand scale and breathtaking architecture, which often used elevated bridges to pass water across valleys and over urban areas.—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
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