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    Michael Hiltzik: Has Biden moved to finally kill California's dumbest water project?

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Dec 06, 2021 5 minutes

    Desperation over water scarcity has produced any number of schemes to relieve the crisis. But few are as chuckle-headed as a plan to pump groundwater from beneath the Mojave Desert and transport it 200 miles to urban Southern California.

    This is the Cadiz water project, which has been percolating along since the turn of the century.

    I've been following this scheme almost since its inception, starting with an investigative article in 2002 that made the case for the Metropolitan Water District to bail on a proposed partnership with its promoter, Cadiz Inc. The MWD did so, which should have killed the plan.

    But it has continued to stalk water policy ever since. Now, finally, the Biden administration may have driven a stake through its heart for good.

    On Friday, officials at Biden's Interior Department to throw out project approvals issued in 2020 by the same agency under President Trump; a hearing

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