1. Top Five Reasons Los Angeles County Needs WaterFix
Sustaining Our Cities: Water from Northern California is the sole imported supply available to 9 communities and their surrounding unincorporated areas.
Providing Local Groundwater: 10 cities in Los Angeles County rely on Northern California water to supplement local groundwater supplies.
Promoting Local Supplies: High-quality supply from Northern California allows areas such as the West Coast and Central Basins to recycle water to meet local demand.
With more than half of Southern California’s overall population, Los Angeles County depends on a reliable
water supply from many sources, including Northern California. The reliability of this imported supply for
Los Angeles and all of Southern California is at risk due to pumping restrictions, deteriorating environmental conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and an aging water system that was not designed to meet today’s challenges. State and federal agencies want to modernize this system through a project known as the California WaterFix that has both water delivery and ecosystem benefits. Here are five potential benefits from the project for more than 10 million Los Angeles County residents.
Surviving Droughts: The cities and communities in Los Angeles County have relied on imported water more than ever before during the ongoing drought as their own supplies diminished.
Capturing Big Storms: California WaterFix seeks to improve the ability to capture some of the state’s major storm events and store it in groundwater banks and reservoirs for years of drought, when local storm water is a limited and unreliable supply.