Cadiz Inc

We are a water solutions provider with a unique combination of land, water, pipeline and water filtration assets located in Southern California between major water systems serving population centers in the Southwestern United States. Our portfolio of assets includes 2.5 million acre-feet of permitted water supply, 1 million acre-feet of groundwater storage capacity, 220 miles of existing, underground pipeline, 43 miles of right-of-way entitlements for pipeline construction, and versatile, scalable and cost-effective water filtration technology that removes contaminants and constituents of concern from groundwater. Our customers are public and private water systems, government agencies and commercial businesses.

We own approximately 46,000 acres of land with high-quality, naturally recharging groundwater resources in Southern California’s Mojave Desert ("Cadiz Property"). Our land holdings with vested water rights were assembled by our founders in the early 1980s, relying on NASA satellite imagery that identified a desert aquifer system beneath a vast 2,000 square mile Southern California watershed. The aquifer system underlying the watershed is estimated to hold 30 - 50 million acre-feet of groundwater in storage, comparable in size to the capacity of the largest reservoir in the United States - Lake Mead. Since the late 1980s, we have farmed at our contiguous property at the base of the watershed ("Cadiz Ranch") relying on groundwater for irrigation.

In 2008, we entered into a 99-year lease with the Arizona & California Railroad Company ("ARZC") to co-locate and construct a water conveyance pipeline system ("Southern Pipeline") within ARZC’s existing, active railroad right-of-way ("ROW") that extends 43-miles from the Cadiz Ranch to the Colorado River Aqueduct ("CRA"), one of Southern California’s primary sources of water supply, allowing water supply to be moved between the Cadiz Ranch and the CRA for off property beneficial uses.

In 2012, we received permits and entitlements from public agencies for our groundwater storage project (the "Mojave Groundwater Bank"), which will (1) conserve 2.5 million acre-feet of water from the aquifer system over a 50-year period (average of 50,000 acre-feet per year) for off-property beneficial uses in underserved California communities and (2) store up to 1 million acre-feet of imported water in the aquifer system. The permits were challenged through litigation and were upheld and sustained in their entirety by judgements in the California Superior Court in 2014 and the California Court of Appeal in 2016.