California’s water problem has been festering for at least 30 years. You know the old saying; “EVERY BODY COMPLAINS ABOUT THE WEATHER, AND NOBODY WANTS TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT”. In Israel, they knew that water was a problem from day one. So, they started building de-salinating plants a long time ago. Now, California has the whole Pacific Ocean to desalinate. Had they started building desalinating plants 30 years ago, they wouldn’t be in the hole they are in today. But, rather than spend the money on desalinating plants, they chose to build “SPEED TRAINS” to no where. So, all you very stupid people that voted for these people for the last 30 years, SUCK IT UP. Who was it that said “STUPID IS WHAT STUPID DOES”?
“Had they started building desalinating plants 30 years ago, they wouldn’t be in the hole they are in today.”
Have you bothered to investigate the amount of energy desal plants need? They would have been a viable solution if we had stayed with nuclear power, but using fossil fuels for this isn’t a real solution. The truth of the matter is that California ( thanks almost exclusively to Jerry Brown and his cohorts) hasn’t build a new water storage facility since 1979. And in that timeframe the state’s population has doubled. We have a water infrastructure that counts on a snowpack. The reservoirs are not big enough in a normal year to store the early rainfall and the snowpack, so we have to release that water to make way for the snowpack when it melts and it is lost. But that’s only part of the story since the majority of the water (80%) goes for agriculture. And worse still, the Central Valley Project (CVP) was supposed to supply agriculture with water so that it would be able to stop pumping groundwater for irrigation. But when they got the new sources of water, they just opened up more land to farming and kept pumping groundwater.