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accession: "0001213900-25-092126"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CDZI"
cik: "0000727273"
company_name: "CADIZ INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:37:59.826440+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cadiz Signs MOU with U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for Colorado River Water Augmentation Study

## Summary
- Cadiz, Fenner Valley Water Authority, and Fenner Gap Mutual Water Company entered into MOU with U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Sept 25, 2025.
- MOU aims to study using Mojave Groundwater Bank to augment Colorado River water supplies via exchange or delivery to Lake Mead.
- Collaboration will share data, tools, and research on aquifer storage and non-tributary conserved water for Lower Colorado River Basin.
- MOU is non-binding, five-year term with auto-renewal, and parties will finalize scope and cost-sharing agreement.
- Project addresses drought conditions and declining reservoir levels in Southern California and Lower Colorado River Basin.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-092126
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CDZI
- cik: 0000727273
- company_name: CADIZ INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000121390025092126/0001213900-25-092126-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000121390025092126/ea0258925-8k_cadiz.htm

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