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 ...

Reflections from a road trip to Mono Lake and the Owens Valley, the northernmost reaches of Southern California.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Drive from Los Angeles up the I-5 and you hit the Owens River Valley and the beginning of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, called the “intake.” This is a small concrete bridge with four wheels on top. Each ...

“I think it is a great thing that the city of Los Angeles has not been discouraged by the shortage of the Owens River Aqueduct supply,” he said in a presentation to his peers about the ...