[grundle]

There's plenty of water. They just need to use dealination and pipes to to a sufficient degree.

[EggsAckley]

It’s about time they did this. Long overdue, IMO.

[RightWhale]

They have noted how dry they are. They have also noted the price of gasoline. They have also noted how close they are to capacity in their power grid. Self-imposed constraints seem to be invisible to them.

[Sam Ketcham]

"A proposed reservoir just north of the California-Mexico border would correct an inefficient water delivery system that allows excess water to pass to Mexico."

A more efficient method of delivering wet backs.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A proposed reservoir just north of the California-Mexico border would correct an inefficient water delivery system that allows excess water to pass to Mexico.

Do the Mexicans think it's "excess".

(Lake Meade in August sure looks delicious, though.)

[c-b 1]

In Yuma, near the Arizona border with Mexico, officials have pinned hopes on a desalination plant built 15 years ago. The plan then had been to treat salty runoff from farms before it made its way into Colorado River headed to Mexico, thus meeting the terms of an old water treaty.

The misinformation in this paragraph alone makes the article suspect, there is more, which I won't go in to.

The water being desalinated is NOT runoff from farms, there is little to no runoff from the farms. The water being desalinated is pumped from the ground, to lower ground water levels in the Colorado River Valley.

[Vaquero]

YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! YOU LIVE IN A F***ING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS OUT HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW OUT HERE! YOU SEE THIS? HUH? THIS IS SAND. KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA BE HERE A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW? IT'S GONNA BE SAND! YOU LIVE IN A F***ING DESERT! GET YOUR STUFF, GET YOUR SH*T, WE'LL MAKE ONE TRIP, WE'LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!

[org.whodat]

Another misleading story, this is about stealing farmers water in northern Nevada, to aide in Harry Reeds real estate developments in the south.

[ckilmer]

California is evolving a revolutionary business model for pumping water long distances. The effect imho will be to make it economically feasible to pump desalinized seawater long distances inland to the end user for rates that are competitive with current water costs.

[crv16]

Isn’t the obvious answer to build more reservoirs to catch runoff water?

[RegulatorCountry]

I’m under the impression that “desertification” feeds off of itself, with dry conditions being exacerbated by a lack of condensation. Large scale pumping of desalinated water into a region, thereby reversing excessively dry conditions on the ground, should conversely lead to more rain, eventually, if this is true. I think of Israel, making the desert bloom, and tend to believe that might actually be the case.

[ModelBreaker]

An agreement reached a few years ago between farmers and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the chief supplier of water to that region, is one model. Under the terms of the agreement, farmers would let their fields lie fallow and send water to urban areas in exchange for money to cover the crop losses.

Stupid stupid stupid. All you have to do is let everyone bid for the water. Farmers, cities etc. Uneconomic farming (that exists only because of water subsidies) will transfer to better crops (growing rice in calif is stupid eg). Instead, you set up another layer of government welfare that makes the farmers dependent on the government.