Plastic balls that provide shade to the water and prevent evaporation in the Los Angeles Reservoir were released on Aug. 10, 2015. KABC — -- The Los Angeles Reservoir looks like a giant ball pit.

If you’re an Angeleno, you’re probably used to the black plastic balls floating in local reservoirs. But the rest of us may be wondering why LA’s turning ...

But thanks to shade balls, the bill was cut down to just $34.5 million. Aside from Los Angeles, shade balls have also been used in the City of Ivanhoe and the Las Virgenes Water District in ...

In 2015, officials poured 96 million "shade balls" into the Los Angeles Reservoir to improve water quality and save water. The video went viral, but those shade balls may have used more water than ...

Reports of mysterious "shade balls" in Los Angeles reservoirs have been bobbing to the surface. But the black plastic spheres are there for a reason. Partially filled with water, they are now ...

There’s an ocean of plastic balls in the National Building Museum, one million translucent spheres dumped into the its great hall to create a stark synthetic white beach.. Visitors are ...

Visitors to the Sydney Festival can swim through a sea of 1.1 million air-filled plastic balls or lounge on the deck chairs and synthetic sand used to create the event's very own signature beach.