Article: Improved 2003 Water Picture Allows Metropolitan to Decline Final Sacramento Valley Transfer Option.

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003

With Southern California's imported water picture for 2003 secured, Metropolitan Water District today declared it will forgo the last in a series of one-year water transfer options from the Sacramento Valley.

Metropolitan informed Placer County Water Agency that the district will not exercise its option this year to purchase 20,000 acre-feet of water from the Sacramento Valley agency after the state increased MWD's supply allocation from Northern California following a string of April storms.

"Urban Southern California will not need the water this year because of ...

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