U.S. Court decision could upend Central Arizona water deal on Colorado River
For five years, a $24 million water transfer agreement has threatened to establish a potentially dangerous precedent, and turn the Colorado River into a commodity. Now that deal will be put on hold under a decision in U.S. District Court. U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi ruled against that water transfer agreement on Wednesday. It was a decision made on the grounds that federal Reclamation officials’ approval of the agreement last year, absent an environmental impact study in that agreement, may have been “arbitrary and capricious.”
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