Southern California’s largest urban water district declared a drought emergency on Tuesday and called for local water suppliers to immediately cut the use of water from the State Water Project. This year, with the state’s major reservoirs at some of their lowest levels ever, water agencies received just 5% of their full allocations from the State Water Project. MWD imports water from the State Water Project and the Colorado River, supplying 19 million people across six counties. The State Water Project delivers water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmland and cities to the south. Areas that depend on the State Water Project are supplied by six agencies: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Calleguas Municipal Water District, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, Three Valleys Municipal Water District and Inland Empire Utilities Agency.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 10, 2021 03:19 UTC