Los Angeles Aqueduct Turns 100: How Does It Work?
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The Los Angeles Aqueduct moved massive amounts of water from the Eastern Sierra's Owens Lake to the burgeoning city, as well as Las Vegas, Phoenix and other desert cities across the region.
Mayor Eric Garcetti and city officials celebrated L.A.'s Aqueduct centennial on Tuesday.
The ceremony included a reenactment of the first time water flowed into Los Angeles from the Owens Valley in 1913. The $23 million Los Angeles Aqueduct project took 5,000 workers five years to complete.
While the aqueduct brought much-needed water to Los Angeles, it also took it from somewhere else: Owens Valley. NPR notes that over the years there was a lot of anger and accusations that L.A. took the water by force.
(Angelenos gathered downtown to protest how the aquedect took water from Owens valley. Walter Zeisl, DWP, also addresses issue:)
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The Department of Water and Power hosted an open-house celebration with a live broadcast of the reenactment of the opening of the aqueduct.
Family members of William Mullholland attended the event as well.
ARN reporter Ani Uncar asked USC professor of history, Bill Deverell, how the Los Angeles Aqueduct actually works.
This story was produced by Annenberg's three daily media outlets, ARN, ATVN and Neon Tommy, and Strategic Public Relations Studies students conducting up-to-the-minute social media analysis.
