But the aqueduct that made Mulholland was not his undoing; it was his decision to turn off the flow of water that would cost hundreds of lives and lead to his exiting in disgrace from the public eye.

In the end, the Colorado River Aqueduct supplied water to 14 cities, 12 municipal water districts, and some 130 municipalities. William Mulholland died about halfway through construction in 1935 ...

If the city was to keep growing, it would have to find the resource somewhere, and Mulholland’s co-conspirator, Fred Eaton, had an idea: Why not build an aqueduct to the Owens River up in the ...

In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...

In the early 1900s, William Mulholland, then superintendent of Los Angeles’ Water Department, oversaw the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct to bring water to the city from Owens Valley ...

A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.