Los Angeles is totally dependent on the outside resource of water. In 1913, the Los Angeles Aqueduct opened to the delight of the almost 500,000 people living in the city. The one problem here was it still was not enough, William Mulholland the chief architect of the Aqueduct predicted the population would not reach 500,000 people until the mid 1920s, it took Los Angeles less than three years to reach that total and within ten years Mulholland and others would be looking for water again. 
Mulholland turned east to the Colorado River as a new source of water. He began a four-year series of surveys in 1923 to find an alignment that would bring the water of the Colorado River to Los Angeles. Upon the completion of the Colorado River Aqueduct in 1941, MWD began to wholesale Colorado River water to its member agencies. Today those agencies include 14 cities, 12 municipal water districts, and a county water authority. More than 130 municipalities and many unincorporated areas are served by this project of the DWP’s and Mulholland’s vision.
The California Aqueduct runs 444 miles and draws water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta in the North portion of the San Joaquin Valley. From there, water begins its journey through the largest aqueduct system in the world and its end destination point is Los Angeles.Without these three aqueducts the city of Los Angeles would fail to exist and its residence are totally dependent on this out-side resource.
Sources: DWP http://wsoweb.ladwp.com/Aqueduct/historyoflaa/
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