You are now in San Diego County category.

The lifeblood of greater Los Angeles runs through the Coachella Valley, coursing through a series of tunnels bored into the rugged foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains.

The 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct — constructed from 1933 to 1941 by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California — stretches from Parker Dam at the Arizona border to Lake Mathews in western Riverside County. Since June 1941, it’s provided water to millions of residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding counties.

The San Diego County Water Authority and Poseidon Water won the Grand Golden Watchdog award Thursday at the San Diego County Taxpayers Association‘s 21st annual Goldens Dinner.

The regional water agency and developer earned the honor for the Carlsbad Desalination Plant, which began producing drinking water in December. Because of the added supply, state water officials eased mandated conservation targets for San Diego-area water districts.

Rep. Susan Davis‘ efforts to secure federal funding to expand the Sweetwater desalination facility have paid off with a $3.7 million grant. Davis on Wednesday announced the grant from the Department of the Interior that will pay for doubling the capacity of the Richard A. Reynolds Desalination Facility. “This funding will provide some much needed relief from the drought conditions we have been experiencing in California,” said Davis.

Thanks primarily to residents’ conservation efforts, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California announced Wednesday that it has sufficient supplies to meet the water demands of its member agencies for the next three years.

But don’t relax your efforts to save water: Officials say the need to conserve is definitely not over yet.

MWD officials said the analysis of its water supplies was mandated by the State Water Resources Control Board, which ended its mandatory conservation program last month and asked agencies throughout the state to review their supplies for the next three years.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California announced Wednesday they will definitely have enough water to meet demands for the next three years, thanks to local conservation efforts. Nice work, everyone! We reached out to some of L.A.’s most notorious celebrity water wasters to see if any of them were to thank, but first, a little more on what this news actually means.

The Metropolitan Water District is basically where the people who give us our water (likely DWP, for most of you) get their water from.