The Los Angeles Aqueduct began construction in 1908, the first year of a five-year effort to provide sufficient water for the growing metropolis of Los Angeles. This multi-part series on the building of the aqueduct is adapted from the history available from the website of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Mulholland was [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 7, 2011
The Los Angeles Aqueduct began construction in 1908, the first year of a five-year effort to provide sufficient water for the growing metropolis of Los Angeles. This multi-part series on the building of the aqueduct is adapted from the history available from the website of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Los Angeles [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Several water main breaks have been pockmarking Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley as of late, reminiscent of previous occurrences that authorities have sometimes called a side effect of water-saving behaviors that City residents have gradually been getting accustomed to. The most recent main break occurred just after midnight on Tuesday, July 12; streets were flooded [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The LADWP is proposing a plan to convert nearly 10 billion gallons of sewage a year into potable water. This signals a reattempt to sell Los Angeles residents on reclaimed water, which was met with strong resistance when it was proposed about a decade ago, and which was eventually scuttled. The new plan, according to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 24, 2011
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s newest pick to run the city Department of Water and Power promised Tuesday to restore leadership stability to the agency, saying he wants to bring an end to the utility’s revolving door of top executives. The council voted 11 to 0 to make Ron Nichols, a Seattle-based utility consultant, the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 29, 2010
Here’s something to consider as you plan your holiday season. To keep the water flowing, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has cut the lights on a 14-year tradition in Griffith Park. Whether you anticipate the DWP’s annual festival of lights for the mile-long holiday themed display or dread it because of the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 25, 2010
The Los Angeles County’s new water rationing schedule takes effect today, giving Department of Water and Power customers a third day each week to turn on their sprinklers. Previously, DWP customers could irrigate their lawns for only up to 15 minutes every Monday and Thursday, before 9 a.m. or after 4 p.m. When a team [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 16, 2010
The Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners has voted to approve a one-time rate hike of about 4.8 percent for customers of the Department of Water and Power. The rate hike will take effect July 1. Chief operating officer Raman Raj said the delay in raising the power rate will make it “almost [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Los Angeles has grown by about a million people in the last three decades, but you wouldn’t know it from the way water has been trickling out of taps and sprinklers. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported Monday that water usage in the city reached a 31-year low for the month of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 26, 2010
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is planning to boost the electricity bills of its customers by 37% over the next four years as part of its effort to cover steadily rising costs. Officials with the city utility divulged their plans Thursday as the City Council’s Energy and Environment Committee debated Mayor Antonio [...]
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