Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield. A fresh splash of crimson juts east of Chico like a fresh wound. With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard ...

The move is mainly designed to protect the vital artery that moves hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day from northern to southern California ... and safeguard the aqueduct, which is ...

It's the final leg of the massive Colorado River Aqueduct: the 13-mile-long San Jacinto tunnel, bringing up to 1,700 cubic feet of water per second underneath one of Southern California's tallest ...