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<br />City of Los Angeles,
<br />Department of Water
<br />and Power
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<br />The City of Los Angeles
<br />Department of Water and Power
<br />supplies water and electric service
<br />to over 3.4 million residents of the
<br />third largest city in the United
<br />States, The Department's assets in
<br />1979 were $3.4 billion, making it
<br />the nation's largest municipal
<br />water and power utility system,
<br />The City normally imports
<br />approximately 80 percent of its
<br />water supply from the Owens
<br />Valley through the First and
<br />Second Los Angeles Aqueducts,
<br />The remaining supplies are
<br />derived from local groundwater
<br />basin~ (15 percent) and The
<br />Metropolitan Water District of
<br />Southern California (5 percent).
<br />The City is the founder and one
<br />of the original member cities of
<br />the Metropolitan Water District
<br />and receives Colorado River
<br />water through the Colorado River
<br />Aqueduct. Water use in Los
<br />Angeles averages 494 million
<br />gallons a day or 140 gallons per
<br />capita per day,
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<br />Colorado River Board
<br />of Cal ifornia
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<br />Palo Verde
<br />Irrigation District
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<br />The Palo Verde Irrigation
<br />District is located along the
<br />Colorado River in eastern
<br />Riverside County, The principal
<br />City is Blythe, It includes 120,500
<br />acres, of which 92,000 in the
<br />valley and 5,000 on the lower
<br />Palo Verde Mesa are under
<br />cultivation,
<br />The District obtains its irrigation
<br />water from the Colorado River
<br />and has one of the oldest water
<br />diversion rights on the entire river
<br />system, Use of Colorado River
<br />water for the irrigation of lands in
<br />the Blythe area dates back to
<br />1877, The expenditures on
<br />Colorado River water facilities by
<br />the District and its predecessors
<br />amount to approximately $25
<br />million,
<br />Principal agricultural products
<br />of the Palo Verde Irrigation
<br />District are alfalfa, wheat, cotton,
<br />lettuce, cantaloupes, watermelons,
<br />onions, and citrus, In 1979, these
<br />crops had a value of $97.4
<br />million, Livestock values from
<br />cattle and sheep feeding
<br />operations during the year
<br />amounted to about $22 million,
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<br />San Diego County
<br />Water Authority
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<br />The San Diego County Water
<br />Authority encompasses
<br />approximately 898,600 acres and
<br />includes most of the developed
<br />areas in San Diego County, It has
<br />a population of about 1,758,700
<br />and an assessed valuation of $9,1
<br />billion,
<br />The Authority is a member of
<br />The Metropolitan Water District
<br />of Southern California, having
<br />annexed to the District in 1946,
<br />At that time, the Authority
<br />merged its right to 112,000
<br />acre-feet of Colorado River water
<br />annually with the District's
<br />original right of 1,100,000
<br />acre-feet.
<br />Colorado River water is
<br />delivered to the Authority through
<br />two branch aqueducts which
<br />carry the water south from the
<br />main Colorado River Aqueduct.
<br />Approximately 90 percent of all
<br />water distributed by the
<br />Authority's 23 member agencies is
<br />delivered through the San Diego
<br />Aqueducts,
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<br />The Metropolitan
<br />Water District of
<br />Southern California
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<br />The Metropolitan Water
<br />District of Southern California
<br />built and operates the
<br />242-mile-long Colorado River
<br />Aqueduct which since 1941 has
<br />delivered water to the coastal
<br />plain, Additionally, Metropolitan
<br />is the largest of 31 contractors for
<br />Northern California water from
<br />the State Water Project.
<br />Since northern water became
<br />available to the District in 1972, it
<br />has gradually decreased pumping
<br />on the Colorado River Aqueduct
<br />as it has increased the amounts of
<br />State Project water imported,
<br />Blending these two waters has
<br />enabled Metropolitan to supply a
<br />good quality municipal and
<br />industrial water. In 1976, MWD
<br />had adjusted its take of water
<br />from the two sources to some
<br />790,000 acre-feet from the
<br />Colorado and 600,000 from the
<br />State Project, The impact of the
<br />great drought, however, abruptly
<br />turned things around, In order to
<br />make more water available to
<br />stricken northern areas, in 1977
<br />Metropolitan imported about
<br />1,290,000 acre-feet from the
<br />Colorado and took only 190,000
<br />from the State,
<br />Metropolitan's service area
<br />covers 5,100 square miles, with a
<br />population of nearly 12 million
<br />and an assessed valuation of
<br />about $64 billion,
<br />To deliver northern water to its
<br />27 member agencies, the District
<br />is expanding its facilities at a cost
<br />of nearly $1.5 billion and has an
<br />investment of more than $500
<br />million in its Colorado River
<br />Aqueduct and its distribution
<br />system,
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