There is the solution. Call the desalination project a high speed train project. The money will flow.
Wait...Huntington Beach would have to consider the use of the water by the metrics of DEI. They may have to send most of the water to East LA.
This would actually work. CA doesn't pay attention and is already corrupt. They funnel money all over the place after budget votes and federal moneys are legislatively allocated. CA government is the worlds 2nd largest money laundering operation, only beat by the US Federal Government.