You might want to coin another term for the idiots in California who cannot figure out how to desalinate, store, and use water.
It comes down to cost.
California Opens Up the Floodgates for Desalination
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/california-opens-up-the-floodgates-for-desalination-150508.htm
...The move was welcomed by developers who already are moving ahead on big desalination projects, including the Carlsbad Desalination Project, a $1 billion plant near San Diego that is under construction and scheduled to begin delivering potable water to consumers this Fall. That project is expected to provide 50 million gallons of fresh water each day, about 7 percent of San Diego County’s water needs....
...California already has a string of small-scale desalination plants, such as one built in 1991 on Santa Catalina Island that provides about 90 percent of the drinking water for that isolated offshore community. By comparison, the Caribbean nation Aruba provides its residents with freshwater using a desalination plant with a capacity to provide 11 million gallons of freshwater a day. Israel currently has the world’s largest desalination planet, and its plants’ combined output provide freshwater to 35 percent of the population, with plans to produce 70 percent of Israel by mid-century.
Until now in California desalination was never considered as a serious option for quenching the state’s thirst, because the water was several times more expensive than water from conventional sources...
Aquadafts?