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The scheme to pump desert water to L.A. Could destroy the Mojave. California's Legislature needs to block it.
In California Cadiz Inc. wants to build a pipeline on a railroad right of way to pump groundwater from the Mojave to Los Angeles County and further. “This project could cause an environmental disaster” according to L.A. Times Dianne Feinstein and Laura Friedman.
Cadiz is trying to exploit 1875 law and avoid any federal law that would prevent them from building the pipeline. If the pipeline is built it is said to affect the aquifers and springs that support all the many communities, jobs, tourism, mining, Native American tribes etc., around them.
Feinstein and Friedman explain how opponents have