Let's keep water safe.
	Let's keep rates low.
Let's keep Ed Little on the job!

Everyone wants clean and safe water at low prices. That is exactly what I have delivered while serving on the West Basin Municipal Board over the past twenty years.

When I took office, the West Basin Municipal Water District only provided water from the Colorado and Sacramento Rivers. We have since built a wastewater treatment plant in El Segundo, which is the only one in the world that produces five different qualities of water for use by industry.  In 2007 the West Basin Board voted to dedicate the facility in my name and it now serves as the Edward C. Little Water Treatment Facility.

This project was endorsed by the Los Angeles County Taxpayers Association as well as Heal the Bay, Surfrider Foundation, Sierra Club, Friends of Mono Lake and many other environmental and business organizations. Today, West Basin now reclaims and treats up to five hundred million gallons of waste water per day that otherwise would pollute the Santa Monica bay. As a benefit of our treatment project, many new companies are locating here to use less expensive, more reliable, reclaimed water.

Today the plant is only at 50% capacity and is offsetting a large percent of the water that we would otherwise have to import.  New recycling contracts will bring in another two million dollars per year with all the cost paid by major companies.