ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the Los Angeles area has achieved sufficient water predictability to enable growth. It identifies two mechanisms used in the Los Angeles area, as must be the case generally in all locations that experience economic and population growth, to garner water stability: the development of infrastructure and the creation and enforcement of water institutions. The chapter identifies the major sources of water potentially available to Los Angeles County. It examines whether the institutions governing these sources of water are able to provide predictability of water deliveries to the participants in the water system. Two important tools have been identified to bolster predictability in water availability. The first is technology. Through technological innovation, infrastructure can be created to augment supply. The second tool identified to bolster predictability in water availability is the creation of institutions—"the prescriptions that humans use to organize all forms of repetitive and structured interactions."
