Imported water. Today, the majority of L.A.’s water comes from imported sources such as the Los Angeles Aqueduct system, built during the 20th century to transport water from the Mono Basin and ...

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

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… ...

Even if unconsciously, the homeless people who loll on the south lawn of Los Angeles City Hall are making a sacrifice to conserve water during the drought. The small gurgling Frank Putnam Flint ...

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 ...

By 1892, Los Angeles County was withdrawing water from the ground through 627 separate artesian wells, few of them requiring pumps. Many were capped to capture the water. Others were left uncapped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...