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

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 cost of repairing damage to Los Angeles DWP infrastructure in the Owens Valley has been steadily mounting since early last year. Here, a worker studies repairs made in 2023 to a drain that ...

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 ...

But earlier this month, record storms accomplished the unthinkable when floodwaters undermined a 120-foot-long section of aqueduct in Owens Valley, causing its concrete walls to crumble.

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 ...