Hello?? Hello? Anyone home? Those folks aren’t suffering from a water shortage. The federal government is not allowing them to use the water they have because it believes a fish is more important than their livelihoods. Read the story. Watch the video. All the desalinated water in the world won’t help them if the government won’t let them use it to farm.
Well, in reality they actually are suffering from the effects of having less water than they deserve up there. Los Angeles takes a lot of water from the northern region of the state, including the San Joaquin Vally. If we supplied more of our own water, it would allow those farmers to retain more of their own, and use it to irrigate. If we’re not taking water from them directly, then water diverted from farther north could be used to help ease the water problems they have.
We have stressed the water needs of the state north of us, and I know we could do a lot better. It would sure make things better for our fellow citizens north of us.