As was the case with the Los Angeles Aqueduct (completed in 1913), every inch of route was battled over in courts (and in the papers). In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the ...

Their scheme laid the groundwork for the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which in 1913 began sending the valley’s water to the growing city 233 miles away. Residents were so enraged in ...

But after the Los Angeles aqueduct was built to funnel water from the valley to the rapidly expanding city to the south, the tribe was among the hardest hit when the valley’s water eventually ...

Today and tomorrow, you can get another. Designed by William Mulholland, the Los Angeles Aqueduct is considered one of the greatest engineering feats of the early twentieth century. The aqueduct ...

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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 ...