News: In dry California, water fetching record prices
By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Throughout California’s desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in. As a third parched summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts and a pair of landowners in the heart of the state’s farmland are making millions of dollars […]
News: Cadiz Makes Commitment to Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions for Desert Research
Cadiz Inc. (“Cadiz”, the “Company”) has pledged a gift to Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (“Nicholas Institute”), a nationally recognized public policy think tank, as part of the Company’s commitments to ensure legacy benefits from the use of its property in California’s eastern Mojave Desert. Based upon a financial pledge by Cadiz and upon […]
News Coverage Summary: Trial Court Victory for Cadiz Project Environmental Approvals
Aquifer Owner Soaks Up Win; Judge rejects lawsuits against Cadiz’s desert project. http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2014/may/12/aquifer-owner-soaks-win/?page=2& By Howard Fine, LA Business Journal Investors in Cadiz Inc. were pumped up last week after a court ruling cleared a big roadblock for the L.A. company’s controversial plan to draw water from its remote desert property. An Orange County judge May 2 upheld […]
News: Controversial Pipeline Project in the Mojave Desert Surges Forward
San Bernardino Sun, Joe Nelson www.sbsun.com/environment-and-nature/20140502/controversial-pipeline-project-surges-forward Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler’s ruling Thursday dismissed each of six complaints filed against the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project, according to a news release and attached court order. The project would divert surplus groundwater from the Fenner Valley, about 40 miles northeast of […]
Press Release: Cadiz Inc. Announces Ruling In California Environmental Quality Act Litigation Against Water Project
Court Upholds Environmental Impact Report Supporting Project Approvals May 2, 2014 – LOS ANGELES, CA – Today Cadiz Inc. [NASDAQ:CDZI] (“Cadiz”, the “Company”) announced the issuance of the trial court decision to uphold the environmental approvals of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project (“Cadiz Project”). The Orange County Superior Court ruling denied all […]
Speed of Drought Confounds Water Planners
Agencies Gamble on Need and Price Santa Barbara Independent, By Nick Welsh March 26, 2014 About two weeks ago, three South Coast water agencies — desperate to augment supplies in the face of a withering drought — combined forces to place a bid on surplus State Water from purveyors in Madera County. They offered what they […]
Editorial: State drier than we have to be
Water recovery project could ease drought. ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER March 10, 2014 Despite the recent heavy rain, California’s water situation remains dire. Data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows that […]
News: Value of Cadiz water project pegged at $6.1bn
After more than a decade of legal challenges and project revisions, Cadiz seems to be within striking distance of getting its water supply project off the ground. GLOBAL WATER INTELLIGENCE, Vol. 15, Issue 2 February 18, 2014 – In a white paper released on 28 January, consulting firm Stratecon estimated that the proposed Cadiz water […]
Report: New Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) Paper Supports Cadiz Project Development
February 6, 2014 – The Property & Environment Research Center (PERC), the nation’s first and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets, has published a new paper in support of Cadiz’s efforts to implement the Cadiz Water Project on private land and with private investment. While assessing California’s current water […]
News: NEW REPORT ESTIMATES CADIZ WATER PROJECT BENEFITS AT MORE THAN $6 BILLION DOLLARS
Major water supply benefits realized by all Southern California water users not only project subscribers January 29, 2014 – Today, Cadiz Inc. made available a new report prepared by Southern California economic consulting firm Stratecon Inc. that describes up to $6.1 Billion in benefits that can be realized by Southern California water users as a result of implementation of the […]