Action Alert: Support the Los Angeles–Mono Lake replenishment water plan now The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners just approved a major water recycling and groundwater replenishment expansion. They stated that this new, affordable water supply enables LADWP…
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power doubles down on lowering Mono Lake News headlines shined spotlights on Mono Lake this summer. On the front page of the Los Angeles Times “‘It needs more water’: Calls grow for…
The Mono Lake Committee’s decades-long effort to secure new local recycled water for Los Angeles, and effectively replace stream diversions from Mono Lake, may be on the precipice of finally being realized. The story begins in the 1980s when the…
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…
