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.
They tried several times, but very important priorities of their society knocked it down. They didn’t want to look at an “ugly” desalination plant from their backyards. This is basically what the whole gist of the argument against them boiled down to. Even more so than all the self defeating environmental issues they dreamed up against them.
“Which is why it won’t be done.”
Not until they have no more water left to steal.