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Developer Springfield Properties has secured outline planning permission to build on farmland near Culloden House, which was Bonnie Prince Charlie's battlefield headquarters.

The water flows in aqueducts and canals to desert farmlands and cities from Palm Springs to San Diego.

The move followed years of calls for land reform, with activists and politicians seeking to redistribute farmland from the white minority.

California relies on Colorado River water to supply farmlands in the Imperial Valley and the Coachella Valley, as well as cities from Palm Springs to San Diego.

But if leaders of local agencies hadn’t acted swiftly, England said, the result might well have been flooded farmlands.