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==LADWP Lawsuit== In 1979, the MLC, along with the [[Audubon Society]] filed suit in [[Mono County, California]] [[Superior Court]], claiming that LADWP's water diversions violated the [[public trust doctrine]]: that all navigable water must be managed for the benefit of everyone. In 1983, MLC won the argument in front of the [[Supreme Court of California|California Supreme Court]], who directed that the public trust doctrine overrides prior water rights. Bruce Dodge, of Morrison and Foerster, served as the pro-bono attorney in the case.<ref name="SOM">{{cite book|last=Hart|first=John|title=Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future|publisher=University of California Press|year=1996|pages=82}}</ref> Eventually, multiple litigations were adjudicated in 1994, by the [[California State Water Resources Control Board]]. In that ruling, LADWP was required to let enough water into Mono Lake to raise the lake level {{convert|17.4|ft|m|1}} above the then-current level of {{convert|42.4|ft|m}} below the 1941 level. As of 2018, the water level in Mono Lake has risen {{convert|7.3|ft|m|1}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monolake.org/today/water|title=Mono Lake Level And Tributary Stream Flows|publisher=Mono Lake Committee}}</ref> of the required {{convert|17.4|ft|m|1}}. Los Angeles made up for the lost water through state-funded conservation and recycling projects.
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