Directors of a capital water district don’t often consider filing public records requests for its neighbor, let alone one of its wholesale customers. However, in late May, directors of the San Juan Water District considered it a reasonable next step. Ted Costa, San Juan’s board president, proposed the request in response to a recent inquiry from the Citrus Heights Water District. Costa said a previous request from CHWD required extensive staff time and resulted in San Juan producing about 2,200 pages of records. … The records dispute may seem unusual, but it reflects a much larger disagreement among the partnering agencies, including Sacramento Suburban Water District. The agencies are at odds over access to pre-1914 surface water, one of California’s most valuable water supplies.

Other water management news around the West:

• Phoenix Business Journal: How Arizona’s new water reuse rules will reshape economic development
• Today’s News-Herald (Lake Havasu City, Ariz.): Editorial: Growth should follow water, not the other way around
• Today’s News-Herald (Lake Havasu City, Ariz.): Poll: Should Arizona lawmakers give the Department of Water Resources more authority to limit growth in areas without secure long-term water supplies?
• Marin Independent Journal (San Rafael, Calif.): Opinion: Our best chance for enough water in future is to bolster local supplies now