For more on the history of the lake, see Owens Lake.

Owens Lake, which once sustained a healthy ecosystem, is now a dry lake bed during dry years due to water diversion.

It starts at the Haiwee Reservoir, just south of Owens Lake.

Swansea was a boomtown located on the eastern shore of Owens Lake.

Owens Lake in California, USA, is an example of a former lake.

By 1928 the water diversions had completely drained the 100 mi2 (300 km2) Owens Lake.

The main line of the route would cross the southeast shore of the Owens Lake.

The railroad was never completed past Keeler on the shores of Owens Lake.

Some ore was smelted on site, but larger capacity smelters were eventually constructed along the shore of nearby Owens Lake.

Owens Lake - a dry saline lakebed - lies to the northeast of Olancha.