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Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Achievements in Conservation, Recycling and Groundwater Recharge - February 2010

Since 2000, Metropolitan Water District has filed annual reports with the California Legislature detailing its achievements in conservation, recycling and groundwater recharge. Locally-developed water resources such as these are important elements of a sustainable, environmentally sound and cost-effective water resource "mix" to maintain reliability in urban Southern California. This report contains a wide range of useful information about Metropolitan's diverse water resource projects and management of our water supplies.

Metropolitan Water District's Annual Progress Report 2010
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CONSERVATION

Metropolitan and its member agencies have long been leaders in water conservation. Metropolitan encourages water-use efficiency through research and development, financial incentives, programs to influence consumer behavior, education, support for new plumbing and compliance codes, and tiered pricing. The Integrated Water Resources Plan, Metropolitan’s planning blueprint, calls for an annual water conservation goal of 1.1 million acre-feet by 2025. Towards that target, about 300,000 acre-feet will come from incentive-based conservation (also referred to as active conservation) with the balance of approximately 800,000 acre-feet saved through the impacts of water rates and compliance with plumbing codes, device standards and other laws.

LOCAL RESOURCES
Water recycling and groundwater recovery, along with seawater desalination and ground¬water storage are increasingly important assets in the region’s diverse local resource port¬folio and help bring greater water supply reliability to Southern California. Local water agencies have largely led the development of water recycling and groundwater recovery projects with newer projects incentivized by Metropolitan’s Local Resources Program. Seawater desalination is considered an important part of the regional resource mix. In 2009, Metropolitan’s board of di¬rectors created a Special Committee on Desalination and Recycling to evaluate Metropolitan’s role in the regional development of these resources. Metropolitan’s investment in groundwater storage is available to offset imported supply reductions due to drought and environmental restrictions.

WATERSHED INITIATIVES
Metropolitan is active on planning boards and organizations formed to improve watershed management and restoration. Metropolitan works with stakeholders in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta watershed, and participates in the Greater Los Angeles County Inte-grated Regional Water Management Plan and the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council.

ETHICS OFFICE
The Ethics Office seeks to enhance the ethical culture of Metropolitan by encouraging directors, officers and employees to see themselves as people with the ability to affect Metropolitan’s ethics.

In addition, the Ethics Office enforces ethics-related rules, regulations and laws and provides online and face-to-face education programs and training designed to promote a value-based workplace.

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