Greg Pierce, director of UCLA’s Human Right to Water Solutions Lab at UCLA Luskin, commented in an Associated Press story about creating resilient water and waste systems for historically neglected communities most vulnerable to climate change. A report, published by the Pacific Institute, with DigDeep and the Center for Water Security and Cooperation, highlights ways that communities where climate change has disrupted access to water can use nature-based solutions paired with technology while also pointing out barriers to implementation. It notes that funding for critical infrastructure projects has been cut or paused under the Trump administration. The report “comes at a very depressing moment where we’re not going to see federal action in this space, it doesn’t seem, for the next four years,” said Pierce, an adjunct associate professor of urban planning and co-executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.