But the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is pushing back. The agency began diverting the Mono basin’s water in 1941, and officials say this supply, though a minute fraction of its ...

Over the last half century or so, millions more people have moved to greater Los Angeles, settling in increasingly far-flung ...

There's no way to move the water from where it is to the Los Angeles basin." Gleick, who co-founded the Pacific Institute, a research center in Oakland, says the move ignores the reality of water ...

The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners approved the project, enabling the construction of the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the San Fernando Valley.

Municipal or county water district: In L.A. County you might see the Central Basin Municipal Water District, which serves about 2 million people in Compton, Bell Gardens, East L.A. and 21 other ...

Arriving in Los Angeles, Mulholland found opportunities scarce. He parlayed a job as a ditch digger into a role with the city’s burgeoning Water Department, where he attained a steady income and ...

Los Angeles is set to build a facility in the San Fernando Valley that will transform wastewater into enough pure drinking water for about 250,000 people.

Environmentalists say it’s past time for California water officials to halt Los Angeles’ diversion of Mono Lake’s tributaries. But L.A. officials insist that water is a tiny but v… ...

Historic diversions to Los Angeles amounted to between 80,000 and 100,000 acre-feet, and more, of the basin’s water annually. Beginning in 1995, that was cut to between 4,500 and 16,000 acre ...