(Yesterday,) leaders of the Hoopa Valley and Yurok Tribes signed an agreement to share 50,000 Acre-Feet (AF) of federal water from the Bureau of Reclamation’s Trinity Reservoir near Lewiston, CA. The Tribes’ rights to that water come from a 1955 federal law under which Reclamation dammed the Trinity River and diverted most of the water it stored to the Central Valley, and a 1959 contract between the Bureau of Reclamation and Humboldt County for a portion of the reservoir supply. Congress awarded the water to Humboldt County and the Tribes to ensure their opportunity for economic development with Reclamation’s water supply and to mitigate Trinity Dam’s impact on the downstream communities. The ceremony took place at the confluence of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers on the border of Yurok and Hoopa Valley tribal homelands.