In the 1930s, workers bored a 13-mile tunnel beneath Mt. San Jacinto. Here's a look inside the engineering feat that carries Colorado River water to Southern California.

The event hearkened back to a seminal moment in the water wars of California— the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913 ... future prosperity of this city,” Mulholland told the crowd back then. ...

But after the Los Angeles aqueduct was built to funnel ... In addition to money, the city now also needed water storage facilities, and Mulholland set his sights on the adjacent San Fernando ...

On a hot, dry November morning in 1961, flames from a trash pile on brushland north of Mulholland Drive were ... The 1913 construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a bold engineering feat that ...

November 5, 1913, was a day of considerable celebration in Los Angeles. More than 30,000 residents ... The city inaugurated the aqueduct that would bring water from the Owens River, following ...

The gigantic undertaking was the brain child of William Mulholland, an Irishman who came to Los Angeles when it was a city of but 7,000 souls. That monumental accomplishment still brings 75% of their ...

Mulholland Drive ... needed him the most. He is LA’s first water king, the man who brought much-needed Sierra snowmelt to the city by completing the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Finished in 1913 ...

He had set out to write a detective story in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, one that would pay tribute to the Los Angeles ... the aqueduct before the rest of the city would. Wise to Mulholland ...

with the start of the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Deverell called the project "the prime infrastructural focus" or inspiration of "Chinatown." The Roman Polanski-directed film ...

Now 50 years ... engineer William Mulholland, the controversial figure who was the first superintendent of the Los Angeles water system and tasked with creating the aqueduct to ensure the ...