A California judge recently invalidated a set of contracts allocating water rights in the southern region of the state. The contracts, reached in 2003, followed years of dispute over water flowing from the Colorado River into the Imperial Valley, an agricultural region in southeastern California. Much of the river’s supply was allotted to cities including Los Angeles and San Diego.
The Imperial Irrigation District, which controls the region’s water supply, sued to enforce the contracts, collectively referred to as the Quantification Settlement Agreements. Other parties lined up behind Imperial, while a small band of farmers and environmental groups argued that the deals would reduce the water flowing into the Salton Sea, creating health hazards to nearby residents.
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