Peter Gleick

Pacific Institute

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Co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit that provides research and policy analysis on issues of development, environment, and security; 2003 MacArthur Fellow who did some of the earliest research of the impact of climate change on water resources; author of Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

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Republicans in Congress have already passed a bill to ease the drought in California's Central Valley by rolling back environmental protections.

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