[Drew68]

CA has plenty of water flowing down from the Sierras. They let it flow to the sea.

Exactly.

Desalinization is expensive and energy intensive, totally unnecessary given the multiple of locations throughout California that could be dammed up into reservoirs.

[Jeff Chandler]

There is abundant untapped water for fire fighting available to the people of Southern California:

1. All those swimming pools
2. The Pacific Ocean

The swimming pools are a simple no brainer. The ocean is a simple no brainer for the areas long the coast, and doable, but requiring more infrastructure, for inland.

[chuck allen]

California already has 12 desalination plants in use. Unfortunately none near Malibu or Pacific Pallisades.

[marktwain]

Desalination is only marginally more expensive than transporting Colorado River water over the mountains to LA.

Probably about 20% more expensive.

[cgbg]

You need all of the above—more dams, desalination plants—as many as you can get.

The reason—if we can ever get control of CA back from the insane Democrats the population of the state will explode with new development.

The time to prepare with water infrastructure is now.

You can’t have too much water in a desert.