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

The history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct is a tale of greed ... The answer lies in an audacious plan that led to the diversion of Owens River’s water, located 233 miles away in Owens Valley.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...