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Water in the West
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Enlarge this image David McNew/Getty Images David McNew/Getty Images When the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened in 1913, it rerouted the Owens River from its natural path through an Eastern California valley hundreds of miles south to LA, enabling a dusty town to grow into a global city. Fred Barker, former waterworks engineer at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and unofficial LADWP historian.