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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

But as aqueduct inflows washed over the playa ... Most of its water is diverted from the Owens River, which ran through a valley that was inhabited for thousands of years by Paiute Indians ...

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 ...