Program Information West Basin Municipal Water District is a California Special District that provides potable and recycled water to local public and investor-owned utilities in the coastal area of Los Angeles County. The District serves a population of nearly one million residents in 17 cities and unincorporated areas along the coastal corridor from Palos Verdes to Malibu. West Basin is a national leader in water recycling, ocean-water desalination, conservation, water resource management, and education programs. The District is governed by an elected five-member Board of Directors and is a member agency of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The District operates a major water recycling facility and three satellite locations, including the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility, the largest treatment facility of its type in the world providing nearly 40 million gallons of water each day to over 300 sites. West Basin utilizes various advanced treatment processes to produce five types of high quality ???designer??? recycled water used for commercial, industrial and landscape purposes. The District is also researching environmentally responsible ocean-water desalination and currently operates a Water Education and ocean-water desalination demonstration facility in Redondo Beach, California.