Mum’s the word on the new leader of the country’s biggest water distributor, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Last week, Metropolitan’s governing board came out of a closed session to discuss their next leader with no decision to share. Its former leader, Adel Hagekhalil, was brought down by accusations of workplace discrimination.

San Diego needs Metropolitan’s new leader to sign off on any deals to sell the region’s abundance of water out of state. A new settlement agreement between the longtime foes laid the groundwork for San Diego to do the same thing within Metropolitan member agencies.

But Adan Ortega, board chair of Metropolitan, told the Orange County Register that the decision on the general manager might not be made until “late September.” Ortega said a

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