LADWP provides safe, reliable and high-quality water to the residents, businesses and visitors of the second largest city in America. Through innovation and strategic investments, LADWP is working to ensure that the city we serve remains sustainable and resilient well into the future.

Delivering High-Quality,
Affordable Water to Millions
of Angelenos

Water conservation is a way of life in Los Angeles. Today, Angelenos use just as much water as we did in the 1970s despite a growth in population by more than 1 million.

Water Efficiency, the L.A. Way

We are actively replacing our aging water pipes to keep our customers’ minds at ease, never having to worry about the reliability of their tap water. In 2018, the City set a goal of replacing 108 miles of aging pipe by the end of 2021. Our crews beat this goal six months ahead of schedule, replacing 112 miles by June 2021.

Strong Water Infrastructure
Ensures Reliability

112,000 tests

performed annually to ensure water quality

Delivering This Water is
More Complicated Than it Looks

gallons supplied to customers annually

7,340 miles

160 billion

323,820 acre-feet

of water pipeline

735,600 active

water service connections

of storage capacity

11,000 employees

Climate Change is Here–
What are We Doing About It?

The impacts of climate change are wide-reaching, but for LADWP’s water system staff, none are more pressing than the unpredictability of precipitation and commonality of weather extremes. Water supply diversity is the key to overcoming these challenges. LADWP is investing in projects to expand local water sources, creating a more diverse and reliable water supply portfolio for the future, outlining the following goals for the city to reach:

25%

Reduction in Water Usage

With L.A.’s water conservation ordinance still in place from 2009, and ongoing incentives and rebates for customers, LADWP is creating more water by encouraging Angelenos to use less. As a city, we are using less water than we did 50 years ago despite population growth.

100%

Wastewater Recycled

LADWP is expanding our water recycling operations through Operation NEXT, a project that will accelerate the natural water cycle and recycle 100% of our city’s wastewater, a valuable local water resource for Los Angeles.

2x

More Stormwater Captured

With 100 new projects forecasted over the next 15 years, LADWP will double the region’s stormwater capture capacity. Many of these projects will happen at our neighborhood parks, and LADWP will be upgrading park amenities along the way.

2x

Groundwater Storage Capacity

The key to maintaining a reliable groundwater supply is to protect and replenish. LADWP is ramping up its efforts to remediate and reopen the San Fernando Groundwater Basin, which will double our city’s current groundwater storage capacity.

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Expanding Our Local Supplies

While the Southern California region will always need imported water, the above investments in expanding our local water supplies will reduce our reliance on imported water by 50%.

While We Diversify, Angelenos Are Making Conservation a Way of Life

While LADWP works to diversify sources of water, using less is one of the most direct ways our community can collectively prepare for and weather drier times. It is also something Angelenos, with education and incentives from LADWP, do exceptionally well:

44%
less water used per year than 40 years ago

30+
years of mandatory water conservation ordinances

50 million+
square feet of turf replaced

500,000+
high-efficiency toilets, washing machines, showerheads and faucets replaced

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LA’s tap water is more highly regulated than bottled water: at half a penny per gallon, tap water is the most reliable, cost-effective and safest water you can have, and we’re committed to ensuring it stays that way, investing $1.5 billion in 30+ projects to safeguard quality for the future. The result? In 2020 alone, LADWP collected more than 3,000 samples, conducted more than 110,000 water quality tests and found 0 violations – a perfect record.

High-Quality Water at
Your Fingertips

As a public agency, LADWP has a fiduciary responsibility to deliver affordable water to all Angelenos. Led by a 5-person board of commissioners, LADWP has done just that, providing affordable, safe water to residents and businesses alike with rates below other major California cities.
• LADWP Average Monthly Bill: $78
• Average Monthly Bill of California’s 3 Largest Cities: $93.67

Affordable, Fresh, Reliable

LADWP is also responsible for ensuring the water reaches your homes and businesses through a massive network of pipes, reservoirs and pumps. L.A.’s water system includes 7,340 miles of pipes running underneath the city, enough pipeline to reach from LA to Hong Kong, China. To ensure our limited water resources continue to reach our customers safely and efficiently, we continuously upgrade water infrastructure and are the first in the nation to install earthquake resilient pipe. This year, LADWP will replace more than 170,000 feet of pipeline.

Modernizing Our
Infrastructure

From employing 11,000 people to LA River clean up, the LA Marathon and partnerships with your schools, LADWP is working for you and with you to build a better, safer, more sustainable and stronger LA.

A Good Neighbor Working With
You and For You

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Each year, LADWP balances water supply demand—imported, purchased or local—with the environmental needs of the areas where we operate. This careful and environmentally conscious management practice is best exemplified in LADWP’s work in the Eastern Sierra.

Over the last 30 years, LADWP has reduced the amount of water it uses from the Eastern Sierra Mountains by more than half—the water now remains in the region to support environmental projects and restoration.

Beyond City Limits:
Stewards of the Eastern Sierra

In the Mono Basin, 66 stream, fishery and habitat restoration projects are underway or complete:

• Lake levels have increased at Mono Lake
• Riparian habitats are healthy
• Fish populations are thriving
• Bird life is colonizing the area

Mono Basin

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In Inyo County, 64 enhancement and mitigation projects are underway or complete:

• Improving 1,500 acres of waterfowl habitat
• 99.3% reduction of dust emissions at Owens Lake
• Rewatering the Lower Owens River

Owens Valley