Environmental
Sep. 11, 2013
Groundwater feud pits Coachella Valley tribe against local districts
A legal feud over how to manage dwindling groundwater in the Coachella Valley will decide whether Indian tribes get water they lost more than a century ago.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A legal feud over how to manage dwindling groundwater in the Coachella Valley is raising ghosts from the past by asking whether the courts will empower an Indian tribe to get water they lost over a century ago when the West was settled. The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, whose reservation lies in and around Palm Springs, has sued two water districts that pump water from an aquifer that partially underli...
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