A controversial plan that would put Southern California’s most powerful water agency in control of a group of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands has run into a potentially significant hurdle.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has been working for months with three Kern County agricultural water agencies to buy five strategically placed islands now used for farming. The move has sparked accusations that Metropolitan, which serves 19 million Southern Californians, is looking for a way to extract more water from Northern California. Metropolitan says it’s interested in conducting environmental restoration on the islands as a means of shoring up existing water deliveries.
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