The Water Replenishment District’s Water Independence Now for All – The 2040 Plan for Regional Water Independence (WIN 4 ALL) program is an expansion of the successful WRD Water Independence Now (WIN) initiative which took place from 2004 – 2019. WIN 4 ALL seeks to identify and partner with regional water stakeholders with the aim of building up reliance on locally sustainable groundwater supplies and decreasing the Los Angeles Basin’s dependence on imported water by 2040. 

The Challenge – On average water providers in the WRD service area of southern Los Angeles County depend on imported water supplies for roughly 50% of their demand. However, through the availability of groundwater storage and sustainable recycled water supplies for groundwater replenishment, water providers could decrease their dependence on costly and less reliable imported water by increasing their use of groundwater.

The Approach – WRD’s WIN 4 ALL program includes a suite of programs and projects that address current barriers to using, storing, and replenishing groundwater in the West Coast and Central Basins. WIN 4 ALL uses a two-prong approach to increase groundwater pumping and facilitate groundwater storage and augmentation. The two program goals are:

• Goal 1: Exercise Unused Groundwater Pumping Rights to Reduce Reliance on Imported Water
• Goal 2: Facilitate the Development of Augmentation and Storage Projects

WRD will work in partnership with the groundwater right holders for the Central and West Coast Groundwater Basins along with other regional water stakeholders to realize all the WIN 4 ALL goals and achieve its plan for regional water independence by 2040.

Click to view the WIN 4 ALL Strategic Plan (2023).
 

WIN 4 ALL PROCESS

WIN 4 ALL PROGRAM MAP