… The Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona drew 17 proposals for public-private partnerships and advanced four of them at a Nov. 19 board meeting. They include schemes to build desalination plants on the California coast or in the Gulf of California, to produce water that can be traded for shares of Colorado River water. … Several people, including representatives of the Sierra Club and the Chemehuevi Tribe, viewed the board’s meeting remotely and delivered pleas that the state not finance a plan to tap groundwater under the Mojave Desert in California. … WIFA board members said they had rejected it as part of Arizona’s solution.

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