“Correct. Maybe it’s time to grow a LOT more of your favorite vegetables east of the Rocky Mountains, where (generally) the precipitation is higher than in California.”
The problem with that is the narrow growing season in the Midwest and elsewhere. I was in the Salinas Valley last week and the strawberries are ready to pick, so you could kiss the bounty that our year-round growing season produces goodbye. The problem is our idiotic government is replete with “greenies” who keep us from developing alternative and additive water resources. We haven’t built any additional storage facilities for 30 years despite a 50% increase in population coupled with the opening of more acreage to agriculture. We should take the money we are pissing away on a train no one will use and devote it to nuclear power and desalinization plants. After all we have the biggest “reservoir” in the world on our western coast. We have, for too long relied on snowpack to backfill our reservoirs. We have had decent amounts of rain that has raised lake levels, but the snow is not there this year.
Take a look at this graphic:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action