Tulare Lake, Owens Lake, Mono Lake and other bodies of water remind us of California's past — and that, ultimately, nature is in charge around here.
Now, as to Mono Lake, deserving ofMono is a million years old, one of North America’s oldest lakes, a sci-fi landscape of calcium carbonate tufa towers, more than twice as salty as the sea itself, and eerie-looking empty or full. After noting the virtues of its alkaline waters for washing clothes, Twain pretty much ran out of good things to say about it.
It was Twain who famously wrote that in the West, whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. And the waters of Mono Lake, some of which have wet the whistles and the gardens of Los Angeles for decades, are, among thirsty water customers, environmentalists, Native Americans. For almost 50 of Mono Lake’s million years, California cars — even in Los Angeles — have borne bumper stickers reading “Save Mono Lake.
The March storms that dumped something like a foot of rain in parts of the valley fell so generously upon Owens Lake that a paradox was created: Years ago, Los Angeles was ordered to keep some water in the lake tothat began after L.A. drained the lake of its water. This year it was touch-and-go for a while, both to keep the tamping machines going and to keep delivering water to L.A.
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