Tell me about it. I live in Butte County, Oroville....SOme years back the water guzzlers down south wanted to break the pre-1914 water rights of our local farmers and others, telling them to just go ahead and pump air...
"Aqueducts built by the City of Los Angeles draw water from the Owens River, Mono Lake Basin and reservoirs on the east slopes of the southern Sierra. In Los Angeles, a 223-mile aqueduct completed in 1913 has served as a major water supply source, conveying water from the Owens River in the eastern Sierra. A second aqueduct, completed in 1970, added another 50 percent capacity to the water system. The two aqueducts deliver an average of 430 million gallons a day to the city." http://www.water-ed.org/watersources/community.asp?rid=9&cid=562
Looks like they'll have to build another man made river and suck up more of that water.
I wonder where the famed southern California environmentalists are. Oh, yea - they live in southern California and like having water.