Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: Gregory Pierce: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Luskin School of Public Affairs; Co-Director, Luskin Center for Innovation; Co-Director, UCLA Water Resources Group; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Senior Researcher, Water and Transportation Initiatives

Synopsis: Los Angeles is running out of water, and time. “It’s as low as I can ever remember it being,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said of the Hollywood reservoir from the back seat of a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) helicopter.

UCLA News: Pierce said L.A.  is “somewhat of a leader” when it comes to water recycling, and that Hyperion may be the LADWP’s “largest investment since the Mulholland days.” The project “is a little bit late, obviously, but I think it will be early enough to avoid complete disaster in terms of people actually running out of water, and having to ration much more radically than we are right now,” he said.

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