The history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct is a tale of greed, political maneuvering, and deception that shaped the growth of one of America’s largest cities. From 1900 to 1930, Los Angeles underwent a ...

Speaker after speaker urged officials from Los Angeles and Inyo County to free the Owens Valley from the Long Term Water Agreement (LTWA) straitjacket that, they said, has decimated the Owens Valley’s ...

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.

a group of about 70 unarmed men took over an aqueduct spillway and control gates north of Lone Pine and began releasing all the water back into the dry channel of the Owens River. That act ...

In that defiant act of resistance on Nov. 16, 1924, a group of about 70 unarmed men took over an aqueduct spillway and control gates north of Lone Pine and began releasing all the water back into the ...

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.

It only took five years (1908-1913) to build the 233-mile project from the Owens River to Los Angeles. When completed, the aqueduct was considered an engineering triumph second only to the Panama ...