Southern California, which has virtually NO water of it’s own, has always said FU to the rest of the state (from whence it gets most of it’s water). During the last severe drought (1977), SoCal folks were letting their sprinklers run in the streets while those of us up north were using water from our bathtubs to flush our toilets. Southern California is your quintessential “We Don’t Give a $hit For Anyone but Ourselves” place. Wonder what they are going to do when we tell them the water’s gone, all of it. Even now, Brown is dusting off his newest version of the Peripheral Canal ( now he’s going to try tunnels) to take more water for So Cal at the expense of San Francisco Bay and the Delta. Probably resurrecting the San Luis Drain will be next so they can drain the polluted water from the Kesterson Wild Life Preserve ( home of the three billed ducks with one foot) back into the Bay. Southern California should be severed from the rest of the state and handed over to Mexico.
Of course water conservation in Southern California has actually led that in the north, including earlier adoption of the dreaded low flow toilets, etc. Average per capita water consumption between the Northern and Southern parts of the state are about the same, but don't let a few facts get in the way of your rant.