By Carol Bidwell It was 94 years ago this week that the first water flowed from the Owens Valley into the San Fernando Valley, bringing water to parched Southern California.

By Hazlehurst, John In 1850, Los Angeles was a tiny Spanish pueblo, relying on the Los Angeles River for its water supply. The river's water was distributed by the kind of communal system - - dams, waterwheels and ditches -- that still exists in parts of Colorado's San Luis Valley.

By Henry Brean By HENRY BREAN REVIEW-JOURNAL In what could be the first salvo in an all-out water war, Southern Nevada Water Authority chief Pat Mulroy is blasting a push by Utah lawmakers who want a federal study of her agency's plans to tap groundwater across eastern Nevada.

By Ed Vogel By ED VOGEL REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU CARSON CITY - Southern Nevada's top water official told legislators Wednesday that her agency must begin importing water from rural Nevada by 2015 or the Las Vegas Valley will go thirsty.

By Kovsky, Eddie In 1913, when water from the Owens Valley of California began flowing into an aqueduct built to satisfy the city of Los Angeles' thirst, William Mulholland, then director of the city's Department of Water and Power, is said to have acknowledged the theft by saying "There it is.