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Our self-absorbed mayor is at it again. This guy wakes up every day at 4:00 AM, and manufactures an issue to get his mug on TV. He wants to make sure that the first thing we see or hear about when we awake is a TV spot or soundbite of him.
This is a false issue. Our watercomes from the snow pack up in the Sierras, which is actually quite thick this year. For the most part, rainfall in the L.A. area is notsaved for our water supply.

There is no shortage of water for LA right now.

I bet the mayor has hatched a plan to sell LA water to MWD for a profit to bail out the City.

the City of LA is already out of money this year. No spending til July 1 07.

Actually the Sierra snowpack is only 27% of normal this year. Check it out here at: May 2007 Snow Survey We are in a drought, statewide, whether anyone wants to call it that or not. The Colorado River Basin is in the midst of one of the worst droughts ever. The Sierra snowpack is little over 1/4th of normal. Get ready to conserve. Desalination is not the answer. For one thing, it takes an enormous amount of electricity to produce a little bit of water. Global warming concerns aside, is there even enough electrical capacity to power the plants? Brown outs and rolling electical outages are not that far in the past. The other part of the desal equation - the brine - is a huge issue. Plus the fact that desalinated water costs at least twice as much as other sources. Maybe Southern Californians need to rethink those grass lawns and start living in the desert that Southern California truly is.