Greg Pierce

director of the Human Right to Water Solutions Lab at UCLA

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Writer of the daily Inside Politics blog at the conservative Washington Times

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To address drought, some people are proposing a giant pipeline to ferry water from the Mississippi River over the Rockies and through California’s parched deserts.

Can drought-stricken CA get water from Midwest via pipeline?

To address drought, some people are proposing a giant pipeline to ferry water from the Mississippi River over the Rockies and through California’s parched deserts.

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