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On Thursday, we published a story about a deal San Diego is working on to sell water to other states. Environment reporter MacKenzie Elmer wrote that the San Diego County Water Authority is moving forward with plans to explore trading Colorado River water. The agency plans to explore those plans with Nevada, Arizona and the feds.

Elmer wrote that nobody had signed on yet. She had been working on that story for weeks, but the day she turned it in, the agency held a press conference to celebrate another deal: one they reached to sell water to Riverside.

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San Diego County’s water agency is selling some of its water to another Southern California agency to help limit increasingly high water costs for 3.3 million people.

The water is going to Western Municipal Water District, which serves a growing area of nearly 1 million people in Riverside County, including Corona, Riverside and Temecula.

The San Diego County Water Authority on Thursday announced a 21-year agreement to sell surplus water to the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County, potentially offsetting costs for local customers.

Western Municipal, which serves nearly 1 million residents in western Riverside County, will pay $13.5 million annually for 10,000 acre-feet of water — enough for 30,000 homes. It will also pay $40 million up front for the equivalent of three-years supply that can be tapped in case of an drought emergency.

The San Diego County Water Authority has inked its first deal to sell excess water to other communities in Southern California, a landmark overhaul of the water authority’s business model that’s long been promised by top officials.

The water authority’s new agreement to sell water to the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside County will bring in $100 million in new revenue for the San Diego region’s financially strapped water system over the next five years.

First, a candidate with ties to a ten billion dollar data center project is also running for a board seat on Imperial County’s water and power agency. Then, we’ll tell you how and why trust in elections has decreased. Also, a look at e-bike injuries as the full San Diego City Council will soon make a decision on proposed e-bike regulations.

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