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 city's water supply depended on the 233-mile Owens Valley Aqueduct. This lifeline crossed ... Masters: So these maps are from right around the time of the disaster, roughly 1928.

agents secretly working for Los Angeles posed as farmers and ranchers as they bought land and water rights across the Owens Valley. Their scheme laid the groundwork for the construction of the Los ...

Their scheme laid the groundwork for the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which in 1913 ... “It's worthy of recognition in the history of Owens Valley, to show how this community ...

To mitigate for impacts of the Central Valley Project’s Trinity River ... from California is the drying of Mono and Owens Lakes in eastern California for diversion to Los Angeles via the Los Angeles ...

Finished in 1913, the 233-mile-long aqueduct runs from the Owens Valley in eastern California to the San Fernando Valley and on to countless homes and businesses. Because of Los Angeles ...

The map highlights the area of Owens Valley, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain ... the developers of Los Angeles famously built an aqueduct from Owens Lake to the city. The area’s Native American ...

When Noah Williams was about a year old, his parents took him on a fateful drive through the endless desert sagebrush of the Owens Valley ... they built an aqueduct to carry that water to the city—a ...

The aqueduct spurred growth in Los Angeles ... The reckoning is at hand. Maybe. "On a map, the Owens Valley was still there, but it had ceased to exist as a place with its own aspirations, its ...

Read additional stories and view photos, videos and interactive maps ... Owens Valley choking on the dust left behind as the utility siphoned the waters from its tributaries and built a massive ...

The water helped build the then-fledgling city of Los Angeles, but left residents in the hills of Owens Valley choking ... a massive aqueduct. Winter storms whipped up that dust, laden with harmful ...