Businesses are prioritizing sustainable water-saving practices to help meet their bottom line—especially as the effects of climate change result in more intense, frequent and widespread extreme weather events, including drought conditions. West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) continues to support businesses in this effort by providing recycled water for landscape irrigation and commercial and industrial uses.
The Intuit Dome in Inglewood (pictured) and The Bolt training complex are among the latest professional event facilities to benefit from recycled water produced by West Basin Municipal Water District’s Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo.
Recently West Basin welcomed two new customers to its growing list of professional sports event facilities that benefit from recycled water produced by the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility (ECLWRF) in El Segundo. The Bolt, the Los Angeles Chargers’ new state-of-the-art training facility in El Segundo, and Intuit Dome, Inglewood’s new indoor arena that serves as home to the Los Angeles Clippers, join West Basin’s already notable customer base of celebrated partners including SoFi Stadium (home to the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams); Dignity Health Sports Park (home to the Los Angeles Galaxy, located on the campus of Cal State University Dominguez Hills); and the Porsche Experience Center of Los Angeles.
Located just 1 mile from SoFi Stadium, Intuit Dome opened in August 2024 and will use recycled water to flush more than 1,400 toilets and urinals within its 18,000-seat facility. This water conservation initiative will save around 40 acre-feet per year (AFY) of drinking water—roughly 13 million gallons, which is enough to cover nearly 40 football fields with 1 foot of water.
Just up the street from the ECLWRF, The Bolt is a 150,000-square-foot facility that opened in July 2024. It features three practice fields, all of which will be irrigated with recycled water to save approximately 20 AFY—around 6.5 million gallons of drinking water annually.
The centerpiece for this recycled water production is the ECLWRF, the largest water recycling facility of its kind in the United States. It is the only treatment facility in the country that produces five types of customer-specific recycled water that meets the unique needs of West Basin’s municipal, commercial and industrial customers.
Members of the public can visit westbasin.org to sign up for regularly scheduled facility tours and learn more about the water treatment process. Visitors will also learn more about The Bolt, Inuit Dome, Chevron, Honda, Mattel, Raytheon and other innovative recycled-water partners that are doing their part to make water conservation a way of life. •