Since water is in the news, here's a picture of the Hinds Pumping Station in Riverside County. But it has nothing to do with water from the north. It feeds the Colorado River Aqueduct, which begins about a hundred miles east at Lake Havasu. Here in Southern California, we steal our water from a great many places.

You are perhaps joking, but we don't steal our water. We have agreements with those who supply our water.
the Owens Valley disagrees
I am personally confused by putting "it feeds the Colorado ..." together with "steal from". These two appear to me to go in the opposite direction.
Perhaps the Hinds Pumping Station draws from the Colorado River Aqueduct, instead of feeding it? I don't really know...
It's one of a number of pumping stations that moves the water westward (over and through a number of mountains) from Lake Havasu to SoCal.
Here is how we steal it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact
Your source says it is an "agreement" and a "contract". That isn't stealing.
You've got a point there. Los Angeles ought to build a parallel pipe system to return treated wastewater back into the Colorado River.
If it's so treated, have the Angelinos drink it themselves. No pumping needed.
BTW, I saw a story about the treated water. It is exceptionally well treated and drinkable.
Less pumping anyway…
Funny you said that. There is an irrigation district near Yuma where the Fed Gov has a desal plant that returns river water to Mexico. I have read the desal plant costs more to run than the ag products of the district. Where is DOGE when we need it.???
WELDON MOHAWK IRRIGATION DISTRICT.
DOGE would just have the plant turned off and the salty water just dumped into the river…