Will water be the issue that brings people back to Detroit?

As Nevada and Arizona grow and grow and grow, a national water crunch is on the horizon. Writer Edward McClellan urges people to move back to Rust Belt Great Lakes cities to solve the problem of shrinking cities and water shortages in one fell swoop.

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Sun Belters, there's a man in Detroit with the answer to your water problems. "They can have all the water they want," says Hugh McDiarmid Jr. of the Michigan Environmental Council. "All they have to do is move here."

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