Owens Valley
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Owens Valley is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada, west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains, and is spl
Owens River from Bishop Tuff tableland
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Owens Valley, photographed from Sawmill Pass by Ansel Adams, circa 1936.
Alkaline dust blowing off the dry bed of Owens Lake
California water wars
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The California water wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights.
Owens Valley
…Angeles Aqueduct, the source of one-third of the water for the city, and was at the center of one of the fiercest and longest-running episodes of the California Water Wars. Owens Lake was completely emptied by 1926, only 13 years after Los Angeles began diverting water. The water diversions inspired aspects of the 1974…
The Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Owens Valley
Joseph Reddeford Walker explored the Owens Valley
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William Mulholland with a surveyor's transit, ca.1908–1913