Cities-Hemet, Murrieta, Moreno Valley, Perris, San Jacinto, Temecula and Menifee.

Unincorporated areas-French Valley, Good Hope, Homeland, Juniper Flats, Lakeview, Nuevo, Mead Valley, Murrieta Hot Springs, North Canyon Lake, Quail Valley, Romoland, Sun City, Valle Vista and Winchester.

Population: 755,000
Number of water customers: 133,000

SPECIAL FEATURES OF MEMBER AGENCY

In 1999, EMWD became the first public agency in California to earn the Cal/STAR designation from The California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA). To keep the Cal/STAR designation, EMWD was recertified in 2007 and must apply for recertification every three years. The Cal/STAR program recognizes employers and employees whose efforts have achieved exemplary occupational safety and health practices.

In 2005, EMWD became the first public utility to earn a silver-level award from the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE) and again, in 2007, after a competitive, rigorous application process, EMWD employees were honored with the distinguished silver level CAPE award. The California Council for Performance Excellence (CCE) is a non-profit foundation dedicated to helping California’s private companies and public sector agencies achieve world-class results. CCE assesses and recognizes organization excellence through the CAPE program based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria.
               
In the early 1960s, Eastern expanded its responsibilities to include sewage and wastewater reclamation, and has built five regional reclamation plants with a present combined capacity of more than 59 million gallons a day (mgd) and treating more than 46 mgd. EMWD is the state’s 4th largest marketer of recycled water for beneficial purposes including agriculture, groundwater recharge, irrigation for golf courses and school grounds, and wildlife enhancement.

Long-term water supply development includes expanded water conservation and recycling, conjunctive use of local basins to store imported water, management plans to protect local groundwater, desalination of brackish groundwater, and improved coordination with MWD to optimize the use of available imported water supplies.