Mono Lake Committee

The Mono Lake Committee (MLC) is an environmental organization based in Lee Vining, California in the United States.

[citation needed] In 1941, the LADWP began redirecting water from the streams feeding Mono Lake into the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

[1] Negit Island, a breeding site for birds, developed a land bridge and became susceptible to land-based predators such as coyotes.

[2] Gaines had found that, starting in 1941, LADWP's diversions of water from Mono Lake's inflow creeks had caused it to lose half its volume and double its salinity.

In 1983, MLC won the argument in front of the California Supreme Court, who directed that the public trust doctrine overrides prior water rights.