The State Water Contractors is an association of 29 public water agencies, working together to provide clean drinking water to more than 27 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland throughout the state.

Through innovative planning, development, and distribution activities, AVEK optimizes the use of available water resources to maintain a reliable, sustainable, high quality water supply. With the growing uncertainty of global climate change, aging infrastructure, and unpredictable State Water Project allocations, AVEK has set in motion strategies for adpatation, such as groundwater banking, to…

One of the measures for determining drinking water quality is the concentration of a constituent known as trihalomethanes, commonly called THMs. Implementing an award-winning water treatment method, “geopurification,” AVEK has achieved record low levels of THM.

Q: Where does AVEK’s water supply come from?