Debra Man - MWD or So Cal

Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California
Debra Man
Assistant General Manager
and Chief Operating Officer
Regional water wholesaler to 6 counties
covering 5,200 square miles
Serves 19 million people = 50% of the
state’s population with projected
population growth ~170,000
people/year
Regional economy $1 trillion
Supplies about half of all regional retail
demands
Includes 26 member agencies
Sierra Mtns
LA Aqueduct
Delta
State Water
Project
Supplies
Local
Groundwater and
Recycling
Colorado River
Aqueduct
Supplies
Conservation
Meeting Future Demand (Dry Year)
7
Demand
Millions Acre-Feet
6
GAP
5
CRA
4
SWP
Recycling and Groundwater Recovery
LAA
3
2
Local Groundwater and Surface Water
1
Conservation
0
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
Meeting Future Demand (Dry Year)
7
Millions Acre-Feet
Demand
Buffer
6
Conservation, Recycling, Desalination and
Storage
5
4
3
2
1
Conservation
0
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
Water Use Efficiency
Recycled water
20% reduction in per capita water use by 2020
(20X2020)
Local Supply Development
Maintaining reliability of imported sources
Colorado River Aqueduct
State Water Project
Optimizing Metropolitan’s Storage Portfolio
Moving supplies from wet years to dry years
Key Issues
Supply Reliability
Energy Management
Financial
Climate Change
Water Quality
Workforce
Summary of Sustainable Actions
Supply
•Storage
•Infrastructure
Improvements
•Local Projects
•Conservation
•Bay Delta
Solution
•Transfers and
Supplemental
Programs
•Completed
IRP
Water
Quality
• Ozone
• Continue
Quagga
Mussel
Control
• Source
Protection
Finance
Energy
Workforce
• Increased
rates to
cover costs
of service
• Implement
Long Term
Finance
Strategies –
Fixed
Revenues
• Partnerships
including
JPA’s
•Hoover Dam
Negotiations
•Renewable
Energy
•Cap and
Trade
•Implement
workforce
development
plans
•Succession
Planning