南加州大都会水区已开始实施一项重组计划，以简化运营并降低成本，同时保持提供可靠优质供水的能力。对于水质科的实验室工作人员来说，这包括尽可能简化和自动化工作功能。同时，还必须开展维护实验室认证、执行所有必要的合规性监控和报告、以及准备满足未来认证和认可要求等活动。 本文讨论了一个项目，通过获取和使用改进的实验室信息管理系统（LIMS），提高水质竞争力，以实现其核心业务目标，该系统将使Metropolitan能够提高生产率并改进质量控制。

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has embarked ona reorganization plan to streamline operations and reduce costs, while maintaining the ability to provide a reliable supply of high quality water. For the Water Quality Section's laboratory staff, this includes streamlining and automating work functions as much as possible. At the same time, activities such as maintaining laboratory certification, performing all necessary compliance monitoring and reporting, and preparing to meet future certification and accreditation requirements must still be carried out. This paper discusses a project to enhance Water Quality's competitiveness in meeting its core business objectives by acquiring and using an improved laboratory information management system (LIMS) that will enable Metropolitan to increase productivity and improve quality control.