Sure, we can be every bit as hostile to free market forces as the left is. Demolish entire suburbs. Exile 35 million Californians into other state, so that the remaining population can actually be supported by the water supplied naturally. Turn all of California into a federally regulated land bank, with a federally controlled maximal population, federally controlled tourism, federally controlled agriculture, federally controlled... it never ends.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
You speak of free market forces all while denying the fact that these LA water projects were the result of government power stomping on property rights, literally murdering farmers who opposed the projects, and then using massive government subsidies to build dams, aquaducts, pipelines, and reservoirs.
All so powerful LA real estate interests could reap billions at taxpayer expense.