UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549
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                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT
                     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                         SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

       Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): November 24, 2009

                           SouthWest Water Company(SM)
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)


        Delaware                       0-8176                     95-1840947
(State of Incorporation)      (Commission File Number)        (I.R.S. Employer
                                                             Identification No.)


One Wilshire Building
624 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2900
Los Angeles, CA                                                       90017-3782
(Address of principal executive offices)                              (Zip Code)

                                 (213) 929-1800
              (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

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         (Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed
                            since last report date)

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Item 9.01     Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

In November 2008, SouthWest Water Company (the "Company") announced that certain
previously issued financial statements should no longer be relied upon and that
those financial statements would be restated. Concurrent with that announcement,
the Company suspended offers and sales of securities under its Employee Stock
Purchase Plan (the "ESPP"). With the recent filing of the Company's report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, the Company has now filed all
reports required by Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the
preceding 12 months, and the Company is planning on reopening the ESPP. The
purpose of this Form 8-K filing is to revise the "Consent of Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm" filed as Exhibit 23.1 in the Company's 2008
Form 10-K to include the previously filed S-8 Registration Statement relating to
the ESPP among the registration statements into which the auditors report is
incorporated.




                                    SIGNATURE

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereto duly authorized.
                                       SOUTHWEST WATER COMPANY
                                       (Registrant)

                                       By:    /s/ William K. Dix
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                                              William K. Dix
                                              General Counsel and Corporate
                                              Secretary

Date: November 24, 2009