There is plenty of water available, providing, of course, the stupid environmentalists would allow desalinization plants to be be built and all energy sources utilized.
Cheap power = pure water.
One cannot ration one’s way to new supplies. At some point, things have to change or you die of thirst. And, with agriculture killed in the Central Valley, there’s good chance of starvation to go with thirst.
And the next thing they’ll do with a fallow Central Valley is to build more homes because the land will be worth even more at least for the developers who will buy it up like it is the Cimmaron Strip.