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L.A.’s new water war: Keeping supply from Mono Lake flowing as critics want it cut off

Por: Los Angeles Times Nation February 19, 2023

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With its haunting rock spires and salt-crusted shores, Mono Lake is a Hollywood vision of the apocalypse. To the city of Los Angeles, however, this Eastern Sierra basin represents the very source of L.A.'s prosperity — the right to free water. For decades, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has relied on long-standing water rights to divert from the streams that feed this ancient lake as part of the city's far-flung water... + full article



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