Owens Valley Aquaduct

Two hundred and fifty miles north of the busy streets of Los Angeles, in Inyo County, lay the serene Owens Valley. The Owens Valley is a vast terrain that is bounded by the towering Sierra Nevada mountain range at one end and the barren Death Valley desert at its other end. As the snowfall from the peaks of the Sierra Nevadas annually transforms itself into water, the Owens River drains the downpour and flows profusely …

…Two hundred and fifty miles away and nearly a century later, the Owens Valley and the city of Los Angeles are in dispute once again. This time the struggle is not for the water. The struggle is for the land. The rich mineral deposits left from the desiccated lake are being fiercely sought after.(Davis, Margaret) After all the damage that has been inflicted upon the Owens Valley, there may yet be more to come.