The solution to california’s water problem is to collapse the cost of water desalination so water from the colorado river and the sierra nevadas doesn’t need to be piped to southern california.
The maddening thing is that Israel and Singapore have already got desalinated seawater costs to under $500@acre foot. That’s close to being cheaper than the water from the california aqueduct.
Whereas the latest and greatest US poiseden plant in southern california does the job for $2000@acre foot.
The first solution is to prohibit Los Angeles and the mobbed up Metropolitan Water District from scheming to steal water from outside of the LA basin.
The schemes from MWD over the years read almost like those of a comic book villain who goes from plan to plan in their quest to take over the world.
A recurring scheme is to tap the Columbia River via a pipeline through the Willamette Valley dumping the water into Lake Shasta. A recent version of this scheme was defeated when LA tried to fund a dam in Canada with an eye on exporting the water to LA. The Canadian government killed that plan once they saw LA was involved.
They’ve tried to take water from the Fraser River in British Columbia via a giant hose that would go along the ocean floor from Canada to LA.
They tried to survey the Yukon River in Alaska for a similar project only to have then-Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin order them to stop.
They’ve proposed a ‘national water grid’ similar to the national power grid which would allow them to suck water from the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, the Ohio, and etc.
The better solution is either desalinization or else to simply prohibit LA from taking anyone else’s water. Force them to look at desal or else just ration what they have.
But no more trying to rob someone else of their water so the lawns of the rich and famous can be kept green.