[BullDog108]

I personally would have no problem with that plan, but it would never happen because of the Wilderness Area designation. Desolation Valley is anything but desolate, it is one of the heaviest travelled backpacking areas in the Sierras. (Altho the little used cross-country path down Horsetail Falls is pretty nice).

Most of the West and East slope watersheds are already heavily dammed. But the Clean Water Act regs require so much to be left to flow into the Delta. And then there is the Peripheral Canal...

California's best bet is desalination/nuclear plants. But it will never happen until all the Greens turn brown.

[SierraWasp]

The Consumnes isn't dammed at all. The So. Fork of the Yuba could use another solar powered time machine and of course the dam for the No. Fork American was never completed although 2/3rds built. I'm not as aware of eastern slope possibilities.

Some people happen to like flat water recreation, clean inexpensive energy and lots of fresh water that has innumerable uses and re-uses, rather than just letting it run back out to sea as usless stuff.

Which do you think the greenies would allow first... Nuclear desalinization or a few more on stream reservoirs?