Officials to Celebrate $80 Million in State Funding for Pure Water Southern California

State to present check to help advance development of one of the world’s largest water recycling programs amid a changing climate

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metropolitan Water District of Southern California:

WHAT:	State, regional and local officials will commemorate $80 million in state funding that will help advance the development of Pure Water Southern California, a major water recycling program that, once built, will be among the largest in the world and produce enough water to meet the demands of 1.5 million Southern Californians.
WHEN:	10 a.m., Wednesday, July 19
WHERE:	Pure Water Southern California demonstration facility in Carson. Please RSVP to [e-mail] for driving directions and required parking pass.
	A livestream of the event will also be available here (not recording quality).
WHO:	E. Joaquin Esquivel, State Water Resources Control Board chair
	State Assemblymember Lisa Calderon (D-Whittier)
	Adán Ortega, Jr., Metropolitan Water District board chair
	Adel Hagekhalil, Metropolitan Water District general manager
	Cathy Warner, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, District 2 chair
	Robert Ferrante, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts general manager
	Jawane Hilton, Carson mayor pro tem
VISUALS:	Backdrop/tours of the Pure Water demonstration plant, presentation of large check by state officials. Media interviews will be available following formal remarks.

BACKGROUND: As water resources across California are increasingly stressed by weather whiplash and climate change, Pure Water will take cleaned wastewater that is currently sent to the ocean and purify it to produce high-quality drinking water.

Project partners Metropolitan and Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts are receiving the funding from the FY 2022/23 state budget to accelerate the project’s design and construction, with the potential to begin construction as early as 2025.

Once completed, Pure Water Southern California will produce up to 150 million gallons of water daily, enough to serve the demands of more than 500,000 homes.

Purified water from the facility will be delivered through up to 60 miles of new pipelines to the region’s groundwater basins, industrial facilities and two of Metropolitan’s water treatment plants.

Pure Water could also be among the first projects in California to utilize new regulations proposed just last week by the State Water Resources Control Board, which would allow Metropolitan to distribute the purified wastewater to existing water treatment plants where it could mix with its other water sources before it is delivered to customers.