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Could the Columbia River solve California's water crisis?

Darin Oswald
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Idaho Statesman

Former President Donald Trump has a plan to bring water to thirsty parts of the West by turning on a ‘big faucet’ out of the Columbia River.

Rocky Barker, who covered environmental issues for the Idaho Statesman for decades, and who now publishes his blog “Letters from the West,” recently wrote an article about the ‘faucet’ and he joined Idaho Matters to tell us more.

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