Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Clearly the LADWP provides more than just water to the residents in the Los Angeles and surrounding communities area. Their water department began in 1902, and now serves over four million residents. With so many residents they are going to have to pump out billions of gallons to their customers. From our research we have discovered the LADWP had provided 200 billion US gallons of water in 2003. The LADWP achieved this amount by obtaining their water supply from several aqueducts; such as the Los Angeles Aqueduct (48%), California Aqueduct, and the Colorado River Aqueduct. Overall the State Water Project is comprised of 22 dams and reservoirs, a delta pumping plant, and a 444-mile long aqueduct that caries the water from the delta to southern California. Other techniques such as recycled water (1%), and obtaining water from local groundwater are used for the Los Angeles area (11%). However, each technique in obtaining water must somehow go through a purification process first before it is distributed to the residents of Los Angeles.