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I .... .J ~ 'I ''''A; ,.. FOREWORD THE fiscal year 1945.46 brought the end of World War II and, for the first time, found the demand for Colorado River water crowding the capacity of constructed water softening facilities of The Metropolita.n Water District of Southern Cali- fornia, A" the year drew to a close, the softellers a.nd filters at the La Verne plant were being operated almost up to designed capacity with the welcome promise of greater demands ahead. This increase ill demand coming as it did at a time of unprece- dented shortage of chemicals, maintenance materials, and labor, was a challenge to the ingenuity of the operating forces. The challenge was met, to make 1945-46 the best operating year to date, 11 COllstal bllsin economic conditimlB General business in the cOlistal basill continued at a high level, following V-E and V-J days, despite a widespread expectation to the contrary, The Secudty-First National Bank combined index of business activity in Southern California (1930 = 100) had a high of 251.2 in 1944, was 246,~\ in July 1945, dropped to 202,8 in October and came back to 240,5 in June 1946. Los Angeles City bank debits, a measure of the dollar volume of all kinds of busi- ness transactions. were $26,241,162,000 in 1945 exceeding 1944 by almost four billion dollars, Building permits in Los Angeles County during 1945 reached a _to!:,algf.$.213,7A5,OOO, the .total of- - - the third-and-fourth -quarters' exceeding the permits of the entire year 1944. The value of all agricultural production of the four basin counties rose to a new high at $452,000,000, of which Los Angeles and Orange Counties produced $294,000,000, 1\ " I Jlcreose in u,'nter production The continuing growth of constituent areaB of the District is proven by the increase during the fiscal year in water production, including Colorado River water, of 9.5 pel' cent representing a constant flow of 57.9 cubic feet per second or 37,420,000 gallons per day. The increase in water production by constituent areas since 1935.36 is 52,5 per cellt, from 439.24 to 669,92 cubic feet per second, , , r , I [I]