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The effort to bring water sometimes hundreds of miles to serve the needs of the city of Los Angeles has resulted in engineering marvels, no small degree of controversy, and one great disaster. Los Angeles Water and the St Francis Dam Disaster | 16:16 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered | 1.57M subscribers | 75,829 views | January 13, 2025

Water in the aqueduct that helped fuel Los Angeles' growth was flowing toward the city Wednesday for the first time in six months after workers removed an earthen and concrete dam that had diverted runoff to the parched Owens Valley. ... Owens Valley ranchers are .. at the mercy of Los Angeles .. LA owns most of the water rights it furtively bought in the early 1900s in a widely chronicled land grab loosely recounted in the movie Chinatown. William Mulholland conceived the gravity-fed channel to slake the growing city's thirst and famously quipped, "There it is. Take it," as...