DWP TO MAIL SAFE-WATER REPORT.Byline: Daily News The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. is mailing a copy of its annual water quality report to all of its customers, as it does every year, to reassure re·as·sure tr.v. re·as·sured, re·as·sur·ing, re·as·sures 1. To restore confidence to. 2. To assure again. 3. To reinsure. city residents their drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. is safe, officials said Tuesday. But this year's water quality report arriving in mailboxes this week will be especially important to city residents who may be fearful of a terrorist attack on the water system, said DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection spokesman Dan Gugler. Officials said city water supplies are regularly tested for more than 170 contaminants, of which 110 have maximum levels imposed by the federal or state government. While current water quality tests are not designed to detect every poison that could be used to contaminate con·tam·i·nate v. 1. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture. 2. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity. con·tam·i·nant n. the water supply, the tests would alert officials if a large amount of contaminants were present, said Jim McDaniel, DWP director of water quality and operations. ``We can't test for everything that could be in the water, but there are certain properties of the water that would give us a heads-up if something was wrong,'' McDaniel said. ``Then we could do further tests to determine specifically what was in the water.'' The mailing, required by state and federal law, will go out to about 1.4 million households at a cost of $460,000 for production and postage. |
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