Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents

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Los Angeles will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water.

Once complete, it will produce enough water for 500,000 people.

The recycled water will allow the city to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake most of the time — which promises to resolve one of California’s longest-running environmental conflicts.

In a plan that will reverberate more than 300 miles north at Mono Lake, Los Angeles city leaders have decided to nearly double the wastewater that will be transformed into drinking water at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys.

Instead of treating 25 million gallons per day as originally planned, the L.A