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4 ,.,'" r', ~ i.~~") METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT The District supplied natural Colorado River water from the main aqueduct to desert training centers of the U. S. Army, be- tween Rice and Camp Young near Shaver's Summit, at a maximum rate of 1,607,000 gallons per day and an average rate for the fiscal year of 796,000 gallons per day; and to Camp Haan from Lake Mathews at a maximum rate of 2,557,000 gallons per day, and an average of 1,982,000. Supply of water to Camp Young and to the theatres of operation easterly thereof is being discontinued with the closing of desert training. A-reu, jJulndatiun, mal. W5i:H5s,'\ell 'vul.uat.-iun The area, population, and assessed valuation of taxable property in the constituent areas of the Metropolitan Water District arc shown in table 1. The areas given in the table are official figures as of June 30, H)44 from the records of the county surveyors. The population estimates are made from data compiled by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, information furnished by officials of the Orange County constituents, and figures supplied by the U. S. Bureau of Census from a sample census in the coastal basin. The Regional Planning Commission estimate of population of Los Angeles County, exclusive of the northern area outside the boundaries of the coastal basin, was approximately 3,400,000 as of April 1944. The Census Bureau estimate for Los Angeles and Orange Counties in April 1944 gave a resident population of 3,357,000, of whom 3,195,000 were in Los Angeles County and 162,000 in Orange County. Based on these estimates and adding for those portions of Riverside and San Ber- nardino Counties within the coastal basin it is assumed that the population of the entire basin has not decreased since 1943, de- spite considerable shifting and reduction in numbers of workers in war industries, but has increased to approximately 3,600,000. The assessed valuations are for property subject to District taxes on the first Monday in March 1944. The value of property owned by the District municipalities and of property exempted, upon which no taxes are paid, is shown in the State Controller's report for 1943 to be in excess of $720.000,000. This amount does not include county, state and federal propert,' within District cities also exempt from taxes. The value of property at aRSessed valua- tion levels in constituent areas of the District. and therefore insured by Colorado River water, together with all property exempt from taxes, no\\' reaches a grand total of more than $2,850,000,000, representing an investment value of possibly five billion dollars.