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West Basin Awarded $300,000 to Help Local Businesses Achieve Water Savings

CARSON, Calif. - The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has awarded West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) a $296,250 grant to replace more than 1,300 water wasting toilets in its service area with high-efficiency toilets. To achieve maximum water savings, West Basin will target high rise office buildings and hotels, but small businesses may also qualify. West Basin’s Business ...

Aug. 24, 2010

By West Basin Municipal Water District

West Basin Director Gloria Gray Inducted into National Association of University Women Hall of Fame

West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) Director Gloria Gray was recently selected as an inductee into the National Association of University Women (NAUW), South Central Los Angeles Branch Hall of Fame. Gray was officially inducted at the chapter’s annual awards ceremony March 16, 2013. Gray has served on the West Basin Board since 2006 and represents the Division II cities of ...

Mar. 22, 2013

By West Basin Municipal Water District

Central Basin Signs Labor Agreement With Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council

The Central Basin Municipal Water District Board of Directors signed a project labor agreement today with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council (Construction Trades Council). The agreement codifies the District's longstanding practice to hire local workers whenever possible and ensures that all Central Basin projects will financially benefit the southeast Los ...

May 16, 2012

By Central Basin Municipal Water District

West Basin to Fill Seat on Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission

West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin), a wholesale water agency serving 17 cities and nearly one million residents in coastal L.A. County, was elected by the Bay Watershed Council to fill the “At-Large” seat on the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission (SMBRC). Ronald C. (Ron) Smith, the water agency’s Board President from Rancho Palos Verdes, will represent West ...

Jun. 21, 2011

By West Basin Municipal Water District

Director Gloria Gray First African-American Woman to Chair Metropolitan Water District Board Meeting

West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) Director Gloria Gray chaired the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Metropolitan) Board Meeting on Tuesday, February 12, 2013. The Metropolitan Board opened the February Board meeting in recognition of Black History Month. Gray was the first African-American woman to hold the gavel in Metropolitan’s history. She joined the ...

Feb. 16, 2013

By West Basin Municipal Water District

West Basin Municipal Water District Wins PRSA Silver Anvil Award

West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) received the prestigious Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). The Silver Anvil, which recognizes outstanding achievement in strategic public relations planning and implementation, was presented during the Awards Ceremony held June 7 in New York City. “Our Board of Directors and ...

Jun. 11, 2012

By West Basin Municipal Water District

Central Basin and Pico Rivera Connect Rio Hondo Park to Recycled Water

Central Basin Municipal Water District has partnered with the City of Pico Rivera to connect the Rio Hondo Park to recycled water for landscape irrigation. This connection is the first park in Pico Rivera to receive recycled water. Several other parks will hopefully be connected in 2012. "Central Basin worked very closely with the city on this project," said Central Basin General Manager Art ...

Dec. 14, 2011

By Central Basin Municipal Water District

Report Confirms Motivations Behind $3 Billion Cost Shift - West Basin Participates in Report to Protect Rate Payers

A Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) report, commissioned by seven Metropolitan Water District (Met) member agencies and released yesterday, confirms that San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) is paying more for water purchased from Imperial Irrigation District (IID) than it would have paid for the same amount of water from Met. The report confirms what West Basin Municipal ...

Apr. 26, 2012

By West Basin Municipal Water District

Central Basin Connects Montebello Gardens Elementary School to Recycled Water

Central Basin Municipal Water District has partnered with the Montebello Unified School District to connect Montebello Gardens Elementary School to recycled water for landscape irrigation. As of a result of the connection, the School District will save an average of eight acre-feet of drinking water per year at this site. This works out to 2.6 million gallons of drinking water annually. (One ...

Jan. 25, 2012

By Central Basin Municipal Water District

West Basin’s Innovative Ocean Water Desalination Demonstration Facility to Begin Environmental and Energy Recovery Evaluation

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - Investing in innovative marine protection technology and renewable energy sources, West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) is near completion on its new demonstration facility, formally dedicating the plant on Friday, November 12, 2010. The plant will be open to the public in a community “open house” on December 4th. The demonstration facility will ...

Nov. 11, 2010

By West Basin Municipal Water District

Congressman Waxman Kicks-off South Bay Visit with West Basin Tour

Congressman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.) visited the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility, owned by West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin), for a Water Reliability 2020 briefing on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. The facility, the only one of its kind in the world, produces 30 million gallons a day of five different types of recycled waters for industrial, ...

Aug. 9, 2012

By West Basin Municipal Water District

West Basin Municipal Water and L.A. County Waterworks Districts Secure $452,000 in Proposition 84 Funding for Water and Energy Improvements

West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin), in partnership with Los Angeles Waterworks Districts, a division of County Public Works, will soon launch a water and energy efficiency upgrade program for schools, hotels and other facilities in the Topanga and Malibu areas. West Basin will also work with the City of Malibu to promote the program to eligible ...

Aug. 25, 2011

By West Basin Municipal Water District

West Basin to Double Water Conservation to Six Billion Gallons by 2020

West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) recently completed a Water Efficiency Master Plan (Plan) that will double water savings from three billion to six billion gallons in 17 coastal Los Angeles cities by the year 2020. The Plan provides strategies and programs to help local water retailers make their communities more sustainable and water efficient. ...

Jun. 13, 2012

By West Basin Municipal Water District

Central Basin Gets Greener With New Bottled Water

Central Basin Municipal Water District has improved its popular bottled water donation program by switching to bottles that are made from 100% recycled materials. The purified bottled water, which is produced locally in the City of Commerce, will be donated to cities and non-profit groups for community events. Since the 1990s, Central Basin's bottled water program has remained a popular and ...

Jan. 13, 2012

By Central Basin Municipal Water District

Central Basin Extends the Public Comment Period for Draft PEIR

The Central Basin Municipal Water District Board of Directors voted Wednesday to extend the deadline for public comment on the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) of the Central Basin Groundwater Storage Plan until March 1, 2012. This extension, which gives stakeholders and interested parties a total of 110 days to provide comments, was in response to one of several requests ...

Dec. 9, 2011

By Central Basin Municipal Water District

Successful WEFTEC Show

The WEFTEC conference in New Orleans was a rousing success. We saw hundreds of new customers, connected with distributors and current end users, and unveiled our new STL and STH series of self-priming pumps, as well as focused on our innovative cutter auger. To see more information of the self-priming series, please visit our website page on STX Series pumps. And, if you haven’t yet see ...

Oct. 9, 2014

By Cornell Pump Company

Monroe Environmental establishing new markets

Monroe Environmental, a Michigan-based environmental equipment manufacturer, received some well deserved attention on the heels of a very successful National Sales Meeting with an article in The Monroe Sunday News. With recent successes in the municipal water and wastewater treatment markets, Monroe Environmental has built a nationwide network of sales representatives who are helping the firm ...

May 8, 2011

By Monroe Environmental Corporation

Regional Pump School in Hartford, CT A Huge Sucess

In conjunction with Blake Equipment, Cornell Pump held a Regional Pump School in Hartford, Connecticut on December 3rd, 2014. More than 60 municipal water and waste water operators took part in the class. Pump curves, system design, and proper installation were presented. And the class participants got to see Ted Wiese, Quality Manager and Ryan Bothell, Assembler disassemble a pump. The class ...

Dec. 8, 2014

By Cornell Pump Company

Spanish court upholds operators’ tariff-setting role

The Spanish supreme court has ruled that charges for municipal water services count as tariffs – which can be set by concession-holders – and not taxes under the exclusive jurisdiction of municipal authorities. The case was brought by water users in the city of Murcia, who have been campaigning against the allegedly excessive water prices charged by Hidrogea, an Agbar subsidiary ...

May 24, 2018

By Global Water Intelligence (GWI)

Randy Record Elected to Lead Statewide Water Group

Members of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) have elected Randy Record, a longtime director of Eastern Municipal Water District, to a two-year term as president of the statewide group. John Coleman, a member of the East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors, was elected vice president. The two will take office in January. The election, which took place at ACWA's ...

Dec. 1, 2011

By ACWA Services Ltd

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