Out of the pipeline: The city’s water movement and how it evolved
People react as Rev. Dr. William Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, speaks during a rally supporting the Memphis Community Against the Pipeline at Alonzo Weaver Park. (Brad Vest/ The Daily Memphian file)
The Byhalia Connection Pipeline is over but a burgeoning environmental movement, with the city’s underground water aquifer at its center, remains. The road to that movement began with the rise of the city’s new activism several years ago, with some unexpected twists and turns along the way.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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