Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal <a href="/facts/Public_utility/BzslJKc3">utility</a> in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the <a href="/facts/City_of_Los_Angeles/pyXpYEX9">City of Los Angeles</a> and several adjacent cities and communities in southwestern <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles_County,_California/y0xFvt6t">Los Angeles County, California</a>.
It was founded in 1902 to supply water to residents and businesses in the city of Los Angeles and several of its immediately adjacent communities. In 1917, LADWP began to deliver <a href="/facts/Electric_power/w61ID9yQ">electricity</a> to portions of the city. It has been involved in a number of controversies and media portrayals over the years, including the 1928 <a href="/facts/St._Francis_Dam/fudo01ma">St. Francis Dam</a> failure and the books Water and Power and <a href="/facts/Cadillac_Desert/3NjAEQF9">Cadillac Desert</a>.

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power