Dean Tonenna, a Kutzadika’a botanist, said “a racist legacy” led to the lowering of Mono lake and still compromises his people’s connection to the ecosystem. Now, he and other local tribal members want their interests considered. 📝: Alastair Bland
, released last summer, endorsed more water recycling, capturing stormwater and using less.
Perez at the city’s water department said by email that purchasing the water currently diverted from the Mono basin from elsewhere would cost $44 million per year. And increasing reliance on other sources, he added, would just transfer impacts to other watersheds, “resulting in increased environmental pressure on those already-strained systems” of the Delta and the Colorado River.
Wastewater treatment facilities could create a torrent of recirculated water. Reznik said Los Angeles could be treating and pumping back into its supply system more than 300,000“Imported supplies remain a vital source of the City’s water resources, especially in consideration of the unpredictability and the unprecedented climate variability we continue to see in the desert southwest.
But to detach itself from its Mono basin water prematurely could be a risky gamble for Los Angeles, said Charley Wilson, executive director and CEO of the Southern California Water Coalition. He said that in water supply management, unlike the energy sector, there is little room for error or failure.
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