Los Angeles Department of Water and Power worker Ben Butler shows repairs on a drain Wednesday in Bishop, Calif. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct ...

Chiara Barzini’s ‘Aqua’ investigates the precariousness of a city that, like Rome, flourished via an engineering miracle ...

Water flows through the Owens Valley in the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 2023. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a ...

Access to water played a critical role in the development of Los Angeles into one of the country’s largest cities. In 1900, it covered 61 square miles and had 102,000 residents. The supply of water ...

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A century ago, people in the Owens Valley carried out a defiant act of protest, taking over part of the L.A. Aqueduct and releasing water. An event this weekend focuses on the history of that ...

For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the eastern Sierra Nevada.

OLANCHA, Calif. — For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the ...

It’s a chapter of California history filled with subterfuge and conflict: More than a century ago, agents secretly working for Los Angeles posed as farmers and ranchers as they bought land and water ...