Original sentence: He lacks moral qualms about shutting off hydroelectric power, or destroying dams, to remind people who controls their lives.In a California that broke awayy from the United States 80 years earlier, Mulholland is a despot whose Pacific Ocean desalinization plants provide fresh water for California, secession having cut the state off from the Colorado River).Mullholland is an immortal sorcerer in Greg van Eekhout's 2014 urban fantasy novel, California Bones
Edited sentence: He lacks moral qualms about shutting off hydroelectric power, or destroying dams (as he did with the Sepulveda Dam in 1941, using the Los Angeles River to kill hundreds), to remind people who controls their lives.Mullholland is an immortal sorcerer in Greg van Eekhout's urban fantasy novel, California Bones (Tor Books, June 2014), in a California that broke off from the United States 80 years earlier, a despot whose Pacific Ocean desalinization plants provide fresh water for California (secession having cut California off from the Colorado River)