the public relations manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is looking for a river he can’t find. We’re driving down a road 200 miles from Los Angeles, in the Owens Valley ...

The Paiute people were the Native inhabitants of the Owens Valley territory in what is now the State of California. They built sophisticated irrigation canals to channel water runoff from the ...

In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...