Desalinization plants would make a lot of sense in California, but so would using more of their available fresh water that they dump into the ocean.
They are caught in a catch-22. Desalinization requires electricity and electricity is bad to them. Collecting and using more of their fresh water is seen as a bad environmental move.
They will take the easy route that best serves their big government control model. Regulate water usage and tax the hell out of it. Everyone but the consumer is left happy.
“Desalinization requires electricity and electricity is bad to them.”
Solar.
What you mean is “More water means less power for the Democrats”. This is all about control. If you control the water and food, you control the people.
Absolutely true. We pi$$ away millions of acre-feet each year by sending perfectly good water from our reservoirs to the ocean to keep alive 6 delta smelts that nobody has been actually able to find in the last several years. If environmentalists want to restore "natural" conditions, they should remember that, prior to dams and reservoirs, the rivers would go down to a trickle by early fall and brackish water would work its way well upstream.
We also have added 16M people since 1980 with no increase in reservoir capacity. Modest new reservoir capacity approved by the voters a few years ago has been stalled by the California state "government" and remains in limbo. A push to tear down several existing dams to restore original conditions continues. A large fraction of the electorate in California is certifiably insane, as we will see demonstrated again in today's primary election results.