[alexander_busek]

I grew up in LA and am glad to be out of it. California is no place to retire, folks. There is no water there. South Carolina is real nice.

Don't understand all the posters on this thread warning / complaining about a putative lack of water in California.

Are you talking about coastline and/or water recreational resources, or potable water (for drinking and/or agricultural purposes)?

To my knowledge (after quickly leafing through a Rand McNally), California has an extensive coastline, with lots of pretty beaches and - in the south - warm bathing waters. So I guess you all mean that there is a scarcity of the latter (drinking and/or agricultural purposes).

So, are people dying of thirst, or are crops suffering from drought?

Or is it a question of water prices? Surely the cost of household water is not prohibitively high.

So what's the real problem?

Regards,

[Pelham]

This is the third year of drought in California. Very little rain and no snowpack.