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LA to double recycled water capacity at Van Nuys wastewater plant

The decades-long effort will boost local water supplies and could also help replenish Mono Lake in the Sierra Nevada.
LAist

Another casualty of a bone-dry winter: LA won’t take less water from Mono Lake

Los Angeles will take most or all of its allotment of water from Mono Lake through March, disappointing local environmentalists and conservation experts after raising hopes that more water would be ...
The Union Democrat

At Mono Lake, visitors witness the stark toll of LA’s water use

At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush, a naturalist welcomes a group of visitors to Mono Lake beside a sign that reads “Oasis in the Desert.” Guide Ryan Garrett, his face alight, greets the group of ...
Arizona Daily Sun

‘It needs more water’: Calls grow for boosting Mono Lake by easing LA’s water reliance

LEE VINING, Calif. — The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have ...
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Decades ago, L.A. was ordered to take less water to save Mono Lake. But the city remains far from a key goal

Los Angeles diverts water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and ...

Majestic wild horses are trampling Mono Lake’s otherworldly landscape. The feds plan a roundup

Federal officials plan to round up wild horses roaming the Eastern Sierra, citing hazards and damage. But local tribes and ...
Times of San Diego

With Mono Lake Rising Again, Ecologists Plead with Los Angeles to Stop Taking its Water

As trickling snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada slowly raises Mono Lake — famed for its bird life and outlandish shoreline mineral spires — advocates are pressuring state water officials to halt diversions ...
Standard-Examiner

The public trust doctrine prevented Mono Lake from drying up. Could it be used to save the Great Salt Lake?

A boardwalk stretches toward the current shoreline of Mono Lake, as seen from around the location of the historic water level of Mono Lake in 1941 before water diversions by Los Angeles first began, ...
Los Angeles Times

A changing climate at Mono Lake could mean more dust storms in the Eastern Sierra — or less water for L.A.

When dust storms began rising off the dry bed of Owens Lake, authorities in the Eastern Sierra blamed Los Angeles’ thirst. The city had, after all, drained the lake in the 1920s to serve its faucets.
The Salt Lake Tribune

Five things to know about Mono Lake — and how it compares to the Great Salt Lake

Editor’s note • This Great Salt Lake Collaborative story is part of day three of our series, “At water’s edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake’s sister lakes across the Great Basin.” ...
SFGate

IT'S RISING AND HEALTHY: Three decades ago, a bunch of college students reported on and worried about the fate of Mono Lake. This month, they celebrated its recovery.

2006-07-29 04:00:00 PDT Mono Lake, Mono County-- Thirty years ago, a dozen students from Stanford University, UC Davis and elsewhere camped at ancient Mono Lake for more than two months, conducting ...
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'It needs more water': Calls grow for boosting Mono Lake by easing L.A.'s water reliance

The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have long been a symbol of ...