ESTABLISHING FOCAL AREAS Since water resilience is of shared interest across agencies and customers, planning for our future water resources is a shared responsibility. Working together with water resource managers and diverse stakeholders in Los Angeles County, we developed the CWP to complement existing local and regional efforts, specifically focusing on challenges where collaboration can add value.
REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY RELIABILITY
GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY
To address the challenges of climate change, water supply reliability must be considered through a regional and integrated view of supplies including natural rivers, streams, lakes, groundwater basins, and engineered systems throughout Los Angeles County. By viewing these systems as regional networks, water resource managers can adopt a collaborative planning perspective beyond individual jurisdictional boundaries, ownership factors, or singular functions. In turn, the region is able to better leverage the collective local and imported water resources, infrastructure, and relationships, to improve regional water supply reliability.
Groundwater basins in Los Angeles County share management challenges and opportunities. Given that nearly all of Los Angeles County’s groundwater basins are managed through formal adjudication agreements, management discussions are often separated by basin which has historically limited opportunities for collaboration. Regional collaboration to seek solutions that leverage collective expertise and resources to benefit Los Angeles County as a whole can help overcome shared challenges across groundwater basins.
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WATER PLAN
