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San Diego County Water Authority Board Chair Nick Serrano says the new agreement would allow for an exchange.
His agency would lean harder on that ocean water, and other users in California, Arizona, and Nevada could pay to take some of San Diego's Colorado River water.
Water agencies in Arizona are scrambling to find new water supplies as they could face big cuts to the amount they can pull from the Colorado River.
Drought and climate change are straining its supplies.
Officials said this new agreement could give them a way to adapt that doesn't require the construction of any new pipes or canals.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix.
San Diego County Water Authority Board Chair Nick Serrano says the new agreement would allow for an exchange.
His agency would lean harder on that ocean water, and other users in California, Arizona, and Nevada could pay to take some of San Diego's Colorado River water.
Water agencies in Arizona are scrambling to find new water supplies as they could face big cuts to the amount they can pull from the Colorado River.
Drought and climate change are straining its supplies.
Officials said this new agreement could give them a way to adapt that doesn't require the construction of any new pipes or canals.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix.