As always the average residents that use a small portion of the water will pay the biggest price, while the politically connected cronies will do what they want.
If they do not have enough water then they should have been discouraging illegal immigration instead of creating sanctuary cities. They should have been putting infrastructure fees on development if it more infrastructure to accommodate.
Why are they not developing thorium reactors to power salt desalinization plants? Instead we are borrowing from China along with sending our jobs there, while wasting lives and trillions sticking our nose in every country in the world?
Why are they not recycling water? They’ve been whining and crying about water since the 70’s at least, but have done nothing about it.