L.A. Needs Water, and for a Century, ‘Mother Ditch’ Supplied It
From Smithsonian Magazine:
“Not long after El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles was founded in the late 1700s, the pueblo’s early inhabitat dug a route for water to move from the Los Angeles river to the new settlement. … And earlier this month, workers in Los Angeles’ Chinatown unearthed a section.”