City Council

(2) 23-0309 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to reducing purchased or imported water and increasing local water supply, including all planned and existing efforts, as well as infrastructure and conservation projects in the planning and/or development stages, and related matters. Recommendations for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Yaroslavsky – Krekorian): INSTRUCT the Bureau of Sanitation (BOS) and REQUEST the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), with input from the Metropolitan Water District, to report in 60 days on the transition to reducing purchased or imported water and increasing our local water supply, including all planned and existing efforts, as well as infrastructure and conservation projects in the planning and/or development stages. DIRECT the BOS and REQUEST the LADWP to include in the report, a review of current sources of potable water, expected local water supply sources, the feasibility of achieving existing targets within the timelines stated in the current Executive Directives and the Green New Deal policies, and include current water contingency plans and the resilience of the water import system if an earthquake causes failures to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, State Water Project, and/or Colorado River deliveries through Metropolitan Water District. Fiscal Impact Statement: Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.