Burbank Water and Power uses water for power

California's Burbank Water and Power (BWP) has provided water and electricity to the city's citizens and businesses since 1913.Sometimes, however, having responsibility for both water and power provides the community with unique advantages. In 2002, BWP installed two hydrogenerators at its Valley Pumping Plant.“We receive imported water from the Metropolitan Water District, which is pumped in over a mountain,” says Michael Thompson, a principal civil engineer at BWP. “We take advantage of the physics by breaking the extra head to generate electrical power before we pump the water further on through the distribution system.”The high-pressure water is used to power two