Spending millions of ratepayer dollars to undermine State Water Board decision The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) is preparing to fight at the future hearing before the California State Water Resources Control Board. While the date has…
In the spring, the Mono Lake Kootzaduka’a Tribe finalized the purchase of Tupe Nobe, land formerly known as Burger’s Sierra Retreat. Located on the Tribe’s ancestral homelands, this land sits ten miles east of Yosemite National Park and five miles…
DWP misses the point, attempts to twist purpose of Mono Lake Day celebration The Mono Lake Committee has celebrated September 28 for years as the anniversary of the establishment of the healthy 6,392-foot lake level requirement, when the State Water…
Today is Mono Lake Day, the anniversary of the California State Water Resources Control Board’s decision mandating that Mono Lake be protected at a healthy level of 6,392 feet above sea level. The State Water Board set the mandated level…
Mono Lake needs more water, and everyone knows it … or … well … just about everyone? Los Angeles Times staff writer Ian James brings the current Mono Lake situation into sharp focus. … conservationists say they are concerned that…
What a joy to read, this New York Times article out June 27, 2025, which taps into the often-unexpected truth we here at Mono Lake love to tell visitors when we talk about Los Angeles’s water use. Yes, LA was…
Water that should be flowing to Mono Lake began leaving the Mono Basin and flowing instead toward Los Angeles on June 17 when the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) began exporting stream diversions into the Los Angeles…
Each spring the Mono Lake Committee’s team of Mono Basin modelers and hydrology experts uses the lake level on April 1 together with the Mono Basin snowpack numbers and similar-year hydrological statistical data to produce the Mono Lake Committee lake…
Update: Your calls made an impact! On June 24, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the provision to sell off millions of acres of public land in the budget reconciliation bill must be taken out. Thank you Mono Lake Committee members…
Mono Basin and Eastern Sierra’s vast public lands lose federal employees and essential services Earlier this year the Trump Administration slashed staffing of federal agencies, including those that manage federal lands around the country and in California and the Eastern…
