Thank you. It is absolutely true that the green leaders don’t care a whit about water storage. But the 32 T gallons and ten years’ use is just plain silly. There is no way to store the water that falls on what I’ll call for lack of a better term the narrow coastal plain. Likewise the lands around SF Bay. The Central Valley,
20,000 square miles, is essentially flat and much quite low: Sacramento is 30 feet above sea level; Stockton 13. Much of the desert is very flat. How do you store water on what is essentially a table top?
The central point could have been made without resorting to silly hyperbole.
“How do you store water on what is essentially a table top?”
While it’s flowing down the various regional rivers, you pump a much of it as you can up to reservoirs in the hills that ring the valley.
That is how Los Vaqueros reservoir in east Contra Costa County is filed. They can run the pumps full bore when the flow is high like it is right now. The greatest mitigating factor is there aren’t three dozen other reservoirs around in area hills equipped to do the same.