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<br />000932 <br /> <br />District Service Area, Report 969, January 1987 <br /> <br />State Water Contractors, Efforts to Obtain Additional <br />Water Supplies for the Southern California SWP <br />Contractors, Exhibit Number 85, Submittal in the <br />Bay-Delta Hearings, June 1987. <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />State Water Contractors, Institutional Issues in Water <br />Transfers, Exhibit Number 87, Submittal in the Bay-Delta <br />Hearings, June 1987. <br /> <br />II. THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. <br /> <br />A. BackJ;!round. <br /> <br />Metropolitan is a water wholesaler created as a <br /> <br />public agency by a vote of the people in 1928. <br /> <br />Metropolitan provides supplemental imported water to 27 <br /> <br />member agencies through two systems, the Colorado River <br /> <br />Aqueduct and the State Water Project. The Metropolitan <br /> <br />service area includes 5,200 square miles in parts of six <br /> <br />counties in the Southern California coastal plain. The <br /> <br />current population of the service area is about 14.5 <br /> <br />million and is expected to increase to about 18 million <br /> <br />within the next two decades. Current gross regional <br /> <br />product in the service area is approaching $400 billion <br /> <br />annually, which would rank the region among the top ten <br /> <br />industrial nations of the world. The diversified <br /> <br />Southern California economy currently provides about 9 <br /> <br />million jobs. <br /> <br />B. Obiectives. <br /> <br />Metropolitan is governed by a 51 member Board of <br /> <br />Directors, which includes representatives from each of <br /> <br />the Member Agencies. The central objective of the <br /> <br />district, originally expressed in a 1931 Policy <br />Statement and reaffirmed in the Laguna Declaration of <br /> <br />\ <br />',,--.. <br /> <br />-2- <br />