LA Department of Water and Power in Crisis

Since 1994, when DWP workers won kudos for their timely response to the Northridge earthquake, the DWP has reduced critical staff to the point where basic maintenance and updating of the system goes undone. Furthermore, the DWP has not updated its equipment, the average age of which is 60 years old, twice its expected lifespan. The DWP has also failed to take steps to deal with increased demands for both water and power because of the growth of population in the City of Los Angeles. The result is a system that is unable to deal with a prolonged heat wave, like that in the summer of 2006, let alone a terrorist attack, an earthquake, or other catastrophe.

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[metermatch]

This video is partially true, but largly slanted baloney for someones' political agenda. And yes, I work for the Department (Hydro Generation). So you want more power??? Try to get more transmission lines past the red tape of environmentalists, tree huggers, NIMBYS, etc!!!!

[h2opower]

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[crv423]

This is biased toward the union!

[chewsuzzername4m3]

Was this when Enron was screwing us?

[TheSling123]

i remember the heat wave! it was 119 degrees!!!

[stupiduseless88]

The money government put in from the stimulus package to fix this crap is not enough. They need they need to increase the city budget percentage and increase high wealth taxes, as well as utility bills to fix this ongoing problem.

[Baronstone]

Thats not it, they are under pressure to do more with less since the city takes more and more of their budget away. The price of water and electric is fine. What needs to happen is that the city has to give back the budget it will take to upgrade/replace the existing system instead of spending more and more money on social programs.

[mustange550]

Where do they get the money. People complain when their water and electric bill goes up. So the alternative is leave your shit in crap ass condition and then when the services goes out, then you say you know maybe its not so bad.

[frontosa6]

I have no sympathy for folks down in LA. They choose to live in the desert and on a fault line. They choose to live with water uncertainty. When Northern CA needs all of the delta's water... bye bye SoCal.

[mrclean73]

This is what happens when we deregulate the power company. There used to be government over site and it worked fine then, now it has been privatized and its falling apart. But you all wanted smaller government so you get what you voted for.