[justlurking]

What's the percentage of water used by the urban areas (for drinking, washing, etc.) vs. the water used for agricultural irrigation?

Desalination requires power -- lots of it (although there has been some progress on that front). Is it cost effective to divert power to desalination to irrigate crops?

[Crazieman]

What else does California lack? Power.

Nuclear/Desalination plants.

[ErnBatavia]

I've been proposing that Moonbeam drop the multi-zillion dollar choo-choo, and pay for an aqueduct that runs right down the I-5 corridor from the soggy northern states into our central valley.

The land's already there, for crying out loud -- run it all down the median.

[21twelve]

I remember as a kid I wrote a report on desalination plants that were being designed at the time. Taking cold water from the depth and as it warmed it would create steam which was used to generate electricity to run the plant, and then the condensation was captured as fresh water. Or something like that.