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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-030700"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CDZI"
cik: "0000727273"
company_name: "CADIZ INC"
filed_at: "2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T18:10:02.804828+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cadiz signs MOU amendment reserving water supply for San Bernardino County communities

## Summary
- Amendment requires Cadiz to offer binding water agreements to local public water systems before exporting outside San Bernardino County.
- Dedicates 25,000 acre-feet of water supply to disadvantaged communities in Mojave River region or other county communities.
- Five public water systems in San Bernardino County have expressed intent to receive water from the Cadiz Project.
- Existing binding water supply agreements remain unaffected by the MOU amendment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-030700
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CDZI
- cik: 0000727273
- company_name: CADIZ INC
- filed_at: 2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000143774923030700/0001437749-23-030700-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000143774923030700/cdzi20231106_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-030700
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-030700.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-030700.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  CADIZ INC entered into MOU Amendment with San Bernardino County, Santa Margarita Water District and Fenner Gap Mutual Water Company (effective 2023-11-02).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: San Bernardino County, Santa Margarita Water District and Fenner Gap Mutual Water Company
  - Effective: 2023-11-02
  source text: On November 2, 2023, Cadiz, Inc. (the “Company”) signed a binding agreement amending the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between the Company, San Bernardino County, Santa Margarita Water District and Fenner Gap Mutual Water Company governing groundwater management for the Cadiz Water Conservation and Storage Project
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/727273/000143774923030700/0001437749-23-030700-index.htm

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