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Article: Water project plans at Mojave evaporate: critics feared the project would threaten desert wildlife. (Water Rights).
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- National Parks
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- November 1, 2002
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MOJAVE N. PRES., CALIF. -- Plans for a massive water project that many feared would threaten the fragile ecosystem of the Mojave Desert have dried up.
The board of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California voted in October to scrap the $150 million project proposed by Cadiz Inc. The project would have mined groundwater from the aquifer beneath Cadiz's land in the Mojave Desert to sell at a profit to southern Californians.
Courtney Cuff, NPCA's Pacific regional director, said the board's decision would protect California's deserts from a "potential disaster."
"We couldn't hope for a better outcome to this environmentally ...