Industry

It’s been one year since the City of Riverside and Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) executed a Regional Water Partnership deal that allowing WMWD to purchase surplus Riverside groundwater supplies that are part of the City’s Court-adjudicated water right in the San Bernardino Basin Area. In its first calendar year, …

South Coast Water District (SCWD) recently took home a national “Savvy Award” from the National City-County Communications and Marketing Association’s (3CMA) national Savvy Awards Competition during a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, WI. SCWD received the top national award for its marketing and communications plans for its Tunnel Stabilization …

Metropolitan Water District’s Board of Directors has welcomed two new directors representing the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA). Jerry Butkiewicz and Tim Smith, succeed directors Keith Lewinger and Elsa Saxod, who served on the Metropolitan board for nine years and nearly two years, respectively. Butkiewicz has been a longtime …

Tri Ta, the current mayor of Westminster, was recently appointed to fill an open board seat, with the Orange County Water District (OCWD) representing division 4 and the Orange County cities of Los Alamitos and Seal Beach as well as parts of Buena Park, Cypress, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Stanton …

West Basin Municipal Water District, based in Carson, has received two professional accolades in a two-week period of time. The first, received in mid-August, was the prestigious 23rd Annual Achievement of Excellence in Procurement® (AEP) Award for 2018 from the National Procurement Institute, Inc. (NPI). The second was a perfect …

Water industry veteran Adam Ly has recently been hired as the new Assistant General Manager (AGM) at Palmdale Water District (PWD). Ly most recently worked at for Downey-based Liberty Utilities (LU) California, a private utilities company which provides services in Arizona, Texas and California including sites in Apple Valley and …