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Landowners Try to Choke Off Casino's Water With 19th-Century Lawsuit

December 17, 2015 —
California’s latest water war is being waged at the edge of wine country against an Indian tribe planning a massive casino expansion as a group of landowners tries to stop them with a lawsuit from 1897. The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians is spending $170 million to build out its resort, featuring a 12-story tower on a bucolic landscape where only the mountains are higher. The tribe has also snapped up 1,400 more acres to house cramped residents of its reservation. Read the full story...
Reprinted courtesy of Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg