Owens Valley residents seized the L.A. Aqueduct in a defiant protest. An event focuses on remembering the troubled chapter of ...

INDEPENDENCE, CALIF. — Against a backdrop of lofty snowcapped peaks, about 500 spectators, led by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, gathered Wednesday to watch the Lower Owens River ripple ...

There were bombing incidents during the construction of the aqueduct from 1907 to 1913 ... presided over the return of water to the lower Owens River. This was a long-term consequence of the ...

Diverting the flow of the Owens River for 233 miles across the desert was difficult enough, but the aqueduct’s designers accomplished the feat using gravity alone. On paper, the idea of the ...

To revive the river, which curves for more than 60 miles through the Owens Valley, Los Angeles would have to modify the aqueduct and give up millions of gallons of its precious water -- an amount ...

Within a decade of the opening of the aqueduct, the growth fed by water flowing from the Owens River Valley left the city facing another water shortage. The trouble was exacerbated by a drought in ...

While the legal process played out, Los Angeles secretly purchased land and water rights along the Owens River anyway, and soon construction of the aqueduct began on its collection of private land.

When the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, it rerouted the Owens River from its natural path through an Eastern California valley hundreds of miles south to LA, enabling a dusty town to grow ...