And this week, the agency’s top officials joined Inyo County supervisors and residents for a committee meeting and tour of the Lower Owens River Project, a major river revitalization effort.

They built sophisticated irrigation canals to channel water runoff from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Los Angeles Water Bureau piped water from the Owens Valley to fill the reservoir at the St ...

There is precedent. Along California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, years of water diversions from the Owens River by the city of Los Angeles caused downstream saline Owens Lake to dry up.