Cadiz Water Project Opposition

Despite its opposition cadiz said it will submit to another environmental review if the bill passes and provided the review is fair open and transparent is confident the project will be.

Cadiz water project opposition. The cadiz water project is an innovative public private partnership among southern california water agencies and desert agriculture business cadiz inc. Those opposing the project cite cadiz inc s faulty science and agencies lax enforcement of regulations as the reasons why this cadiz water grab has gotten this far. The cadiz valley conservation recovery and storage project which in its first phase would drill wells into the desert near cadiz dry lake and pump groundwater into the colorado river aqueduct at a cost of 240 million continues to take heat over its claims that it can pull 50 000 acre feet of water out of the desert each year without damaging the mojave desert s ecosystem. Kreamer a professor of hydrology geosciences at the university of nevada las vegas critiquing two opposition funded papers to the cadiz valley water conservation recovery and storage project.

If approved the water project would move underground water 200 miles west to southern california. The fenner valley water authority fvwa has released a new analysis by water chemistry expert dr. Water from a pilot well at the cadiz project pours into a spreading basin in the mojave desert. Cadiz s executives also point to the fact that their project went through an environmental review in 2011 and 2012 in which the lead agency was orange county s santa margarita water district.

Environmentalists dismayed by cook s flip on cadiz water exporting project opposition posted on november 15 2014 by venturi november 12 congressman paul cook who had previously gone on record as opposing the cadiz water project in september wrote a letter to secretary of the interior sally jewell recommending against any further environmental review of the project. The cadiz project to drain the desert is a bad idea a spreading basin holds water from a pilot well on cadiz ranch in cadiz calif. That will create a new water supply that can serve up to 400 000 people a year by reducing a recurrent loss of groundwater to evaporation in california s mojave desert. On april 18 2012.

Recent media coverage of the cadiz water project s stunning california court of appeal victory which dismissed the six lawsuits against the project as being totally without merit includes telling details of the motives of the project s environmentalist opponents.