High Desert residents have been fighting the Cadiz water theft for 13 years.

    Chamber President Renee Kaminski and Treasurer Rose Beardshear are spearheading a public meeting with Susan Kennedy, the Chief Executive Officer of Cadiz, Inc., which is proposing to provide Newberry Springs with a small allocation of water.

    The meeting is scheduled to be held at the Newberry Springs Assembly of God Church, at 32582 Mountain View Road, Newberry Springs, CA, on Monday, October 20, 2025, at 6 P.M.

    Through the corruption of the San Bernardino County Supervisors in 2012, Cadiz, Inc., a private corporation was given a gift of 2,500,000 acre-feet of public water. The value of the County's gift is estimated to be between 1 and 2 billion dollars.

    The water would be extracted from Cadiz, Inc.'s property, approximately 80 miles east of Newberry Springs, and pushed through a converted gas pipeline that runs through Newberry Springs, to a possible destination point south of Bakersfield.

    It is reported that Cadiz, Inc. is planning to build 7 pumping stations between Cadiz, California and Kramer Junction. One is proposed to be built in Newberry Springs.

    Approximately 7% of all the power generated in California is used to push water. These pumping stations are expected to require a massive amount of power that may stress the local power grid.

    Under a condition with the County, Cadiz, Inc. has an obligation to provide a small amount of its water to High Desert communities. Communities must request the water that Cadiz, Inc. must then supply.

    The State of California has been highly opposed to the project. It is believed that Susan Kennedy is attempting to peddle the water allotments to High Desert communities along the pipeline.

    It is believed the goal is to acquire Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreements that she can then take to Sacramento and claim that the project has political weight and that Sacramento should soften its stance against the project.

    The State of California's opposition appears to be based upon the reality that the proposed amount of pumping, 50,000 acre-feet of water per year for 50 years is unsustainable and that the pumping would devastate the environment of the desert's entire region.

    With 325,851 gallons in one acre foot, times 2,500,000 acre feet (50,000 acre feet x 50 years), that's 813,952,500,000 gallons!

    Cadiz, Inc.'s slick promotion of its project contains pictures of snow-capped desert mountains and washed-out Route 66 bridges, proving to the naïve investor that desert rainfall is abundant and that its proposed amount of water extraction is sustainable for the environment.

    Federal U.S. Hydrogeology surveys suggest that the Cadiz, Inc.'s rainfall recharge figures could be 10-times too high. This could result in Cadiz, Inc. being forced to reduce its pumping by 90 percent!  If confined to 10%, extracting only 5,000 acre-feet of water per year or less, would the corporation collapse?

    Cadiz, Inc., is a corporation that has been in existence for decades. Yet, it has not had one year of profit. It has been dependent upon loans and stock purchases for its existence.

    Its original plan was to build a 43-mile pipeline to connect with the Metropolitan Water District's (MWD) Colorado River aqueduct. That failed because the MWD did not want to participate in what it deemed a problematic venture.

    A live steam locomotive proposal has also died as an apparent victim of Cadiz, Inc.'s pipeline schemes.

    The company also brands itself as conservation-based with a claim to store water for lean years. But where is the proposed imported water that Cadiz, Inc. says that it can place into storage?

    Both the Hoover and the Glen Canyon dams are nearly empty, struggling to have enough water to turn their electrical generators. Yet, Cadiz, Inc., continues to sell itself with the great idea of storing all the excess water.

    Doesn't Cadiz, Inc.'s claims sound like misrepresentation?

    Another idea reportedly floated by Cadiz, Inc., is to pipe water to the Colorado River for extraction by the State of Arizona.

    The small Cadiz community receives an average of 4.45 inches of rainfall per year, making it one of California's driest locations, a desert zone.

    The amount of water that evaporates in the Cadiz Valley is environmentally necessary for the vegetation that receives the airborne moisture to survive and provide food for the numerous wildlife. The balance is delicate. Cadiz, Inc.'s greed is already upsetting the balance with its local farming.

    At Cadiz (California), Cadiz, Inc. operates the largest farm in the county.

    Let us suppose that Cadiz, Inc. gives 1,000 acre-feet of water to Newberry Springs. Where will the Chamber or the CSD place it? Newberry does not have a water distribution system.

    Reportedly, the Mojave Water Agency has already stated that its percolation pond on Newberry Road isn't available. Besides, how will that location help Newberrians in northwestern and northeastern Newberry?

    Water samples will need to be minimally done at least once a month by a state-certified tester. Who will be liable for this and the water distribution?

    The water at the source contains Chromium 6. If Susan Kennedy claims that Chromium 6 will be filtered out at Cadiz, who will be regularly testing that fact in Newberry Springs?

    The Newberry Springs Chamber of Commerce has already held a secret meeting with Susan Kennedy in Newberry Springs. It appears that the Chamber is desperately trying to make itself relevant by interfering with matters of the Newberry CSD's purview.

    Although the Chamber has already taken a reported $5,000 from Cadiz, Inc., the Chamber has stated that it is not committed to signing an MOU with Cadiz, Inc.  This is interesting as an MOU isn't normally signed with a Chamber. Of course, the Chamber isn't smart enough to know that.

    Cadiz, Inc., is loaded with problems and baggage. Should someone with the Chamber be crazy enough to sign an MOU with Cadiz, Inc., and a problem later arises, that person can be sued individually, and after years of litigation, lose ALL of her/his remaining personal assets.

    The Newberry Springs Chamber of Commerce has its wannabes that want to find a win. To find one, they'll jump on lousy ideas before understanding them. It is a lack of performing their obligation of due diligence.

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