California had 15 years beginning in 2001 to enact Colorado River conservation efforts to decrease dependency on the inland water source. What has California done to comply?
The majority of California’s population lives on the coast, so if you’re going to use residential water usage as the core of your argument, it makes more sense to desalinate and provide the majority of its population with water reclaimed from the Pacific.
Doubtful the upper river states are going to blow the dams and flood their residents, so California should determine if they’re willing to trade all the “shared” lakes for the Colorado.