. California has ample water if used properly. California has ample water if exploited properly via dams which they are now insanely destroying. A massive amount of water is released in to the ocean so the delta smelt does not go extinct. Our environmental regulations are insane. If the Delta Smelt become extinct it will effect humanity not at all. If the farmers that need that water do not get it, we will be effected across the nation via higher price for vegetables, meat and grain, at the supermarket.
99.9% of past life on earth is now extinct, as we will be in the future. Probably by our own hand in the near future. If not by our own hand it will just be changes of earth's climate and atmosphere, none of which is by man as man did not exist during these the great die off of life on earth.
This has happened 3 times in the geologic past. That is just nature and evolution and planet changes by nature. I do not give a damn about the Delta Smelt as they will effect nothing if extinct. The environmental regulations go into extreme detail about how we must protect the environment. Not mentioned is the cost of saving a species and the cost to man but the balance between the species, cost to man, and the environmental changes if a species go extinct.
Maybe the Bel Airabs should look into this and get a project started. “Drill for water, baby! Drill!”