Attention must be paid.
Water rights are one of the more complicated legal and public policy topics in existence.
They depend not only on an arcane set of state laws, but on sets of projections that are complex and subjective in nature, like population growth and level of demand for water. And even those categories break down further. And that's just the demand side. City staff have been negotiating the agreement, which is pending council approval, for the better part of a year. But it didn't go down quite that way.