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The Southern California World Water Forum is a unique partnership of major utility companies, government agencies, and NGOs (non-governmental organizations). Principal partners are the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los Angeles County Sanitation, and Friends of the United Nations.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California reservoirs store fresh water for use in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties. These reservoirs were built specifically to preserve water during times of drought, and are in place for emergencies uses such as earthquake, floods or other events.
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
Willows is a city and the county seat of Glenn County, California, located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California.The city is home to regional government offices, including the California Highway Patrol, the California Department of Motor Vehicles, the United States Bureau of Reclamation and the main offices of the Mendocino National Forest, which comprises about one million ...
California Reclamation Districts are legal subdivisions within California's Central Valley that are responsible for managing and maintaining the levees, fresh water channels, or sloughs (pronounced slü), [1] canals, pumps, and other flood protection structures in the area. Each is run autonomously and is run by an elected board and funded with ...
Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to review how vulnerable the Bureau of Reclamation is to water theft following a Los Angeles Times report on a long-running ...
Lake Casitas is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1959. [2] The project provides drinking water and water for irrigation. [3] [4] A secondary benefit is flood control. It was the venue for canoeing and rowing at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. Hyperion is operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department ...