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…
The phalaropes are at it again—this time beguiling Los Angeles Times writer Ian James to feature this “aerial school of fish,” the threatened saline lakes they depend on, and the people they’ve inspired to play a leading role in their…
This summer Los Angeles Times writer Ian James joined a South Tufa tour for the public led by Mono Lake Committee Education Director Ryan Garrett. He wrote a poignant piece about the experience of both the curious landscape and the…
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…
Continuing DWP water diversions and decades of low lake levels causing harm For centuries California Gulls have migrated east across the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada to nest at Mono Lake. Their graceful, raucous, and quirky presence is a distinct…
“I realized I had been drinking this water my whole life,” writes Sammy Roth, while standing at the Grant Lake Reservoir above Rush Creek, in his recent edition of the Los Angeles Times Boiling Point newsletter. We highly recommend giving…
Mono Lake Committee and Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) staff members met at the edge of Mono Lake on April 1 for the annual joint lake level reading. With binoculars and cameras focused on the lake gauge,…
