This is to guarantee Los Angeles can continue to water golf courses, fill swimming pools and decorative man made lakes, and wash their cars three times a week. Now their irrational gluttony is costing the other 6 states in the pact their own allotments. And still they do not build the desalination plants they have needed for 50 years.
Years ago, before the CAP was built, some Arizonans said when times get dry, Arizona ‘s allotment (and the allotments of other upstream states) will get cut so California can have water. It looks like the old-timers were right.
California should be building desal plants. Then the state wouldn’t need to much Colorado River water.
Pretty simple and sensible.
Which is why it won’t be done.