Sinkhole on Sunset Boulevard: broken water pipe floods LA-area hotspot Businesses and traffic in West Hollywood doused after century-old pipe bursts belowground The Guardian - US · Jul 17
As snow records fall along the eastern Sierra Nevada, fears loom over impending snowmelt MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. — Snow began falling early and hard this season at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort, and the record-breaking amounts don’t look like they’ll stop anytime soon. Los Angeles Times · Mar 11, 2023
LA’s new water war: Keeping supply from Mono Lake flowing as critics want it cut off LOS ANGELES — 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. Los Angeles Times · Feb 20, 2023
Drought-ravaged LA seeks surprising source of water: A contaminated Superfund site LOS ANGELES — As drought and climate change ravage California’s once-reliable supply of drinking water, officials in Los Angeles are setting their sights on a relatively new, almost untapped resource for the city’s 4 million residents: the Superfund site in their own backyard. Los Angeles Times · Dec 19, 2022
LA water use plunges a record 9% as unprecedented water restrictions bring savings LOS ANGELES — Damon Ayala peered at a wet patch of sidewalk on South Tremaine Avenue on a recent Wednesday and clicked his pen. Los Angeles Times · Jul 13, 2022