diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 16503827..062d4d7c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 
 [Babashka](https://github.com/babashka/babashka): Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
 
+## Unreleased
+
+- #1660: add `:deps-root` as part of hash to avoid caching issue with `deps.clj`
+
 ## 1.3.188 (2023-01-12)
 
 - [#1658](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1658): fix command line parsing for scripts that parse `--version` or `version` etc
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/deps.clj b/src/babashka/impl/deps.clj
index f2db3e65..7d737376 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/deps.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/deps.clj
@@ -76,7 +76,14 @@
                                 ;; paths are added manually above
                                 ;; extra-paths are added as :paths in tasks
                                 :paths :tasks :raw :file :deps-root
-                                :min-bb-version)]
+                                :min-bb-version)
+               ;; associate deps-root to avoid cache conflict between different
+               ;; bb.edns with relative local/roots by the same name NOTE:
+               ;; deps-root is nil when bb.edn isn't used, so clashes may still
+               ;; happen with dynamic add-deps, but at least we don't invoke
+               ;; clojure CLI's java process each time we call a script from a
+               ;; different directory.
+               deps-map (assoc deps-map :deps-root (str deps-root))]
            (binding [*print-namespace-maps* false]
              (let [deps-map (assoc-in deps-map [:aliases :org.babashka/defaults]
                                       {:replace-paths [] ;; babashka sets paths manually