“The scope of SoCal’s water problems:”
It’s NOT a “water problem” in California, it’s a POLITICAL CHOICE that they’ve made to destroy their state.
NorCal does not have the political clout to deny Los Angeles.
See, it’s like this: BECAUSE IT’S DEMOCRATS, they ALL get on the same page. Los Angeles Democrats come to Sacramento, and Democrats in the Legislature all rally ‘round the cause, and there aren’t enough Republicans and Independents to overcome that voting bloc.
So — tail wags dog because Democrats all vote as a bloc.
Los Angeles wants to drink the Owens Valley dry; they vote as a bloc and do it.
Los Angeles needs water from the Imperial Valley from the mighty Colorado — they get it.
Los Angeles is still thirsty, and needs to drain Mono Lake; they do.
Somebody gets a bright idea to build a desalination plant right there in the shoreline of the Los Angeles Basin so they can get their won locally-funded drinking water from the sea OH NO! HOLD ON, Hoss! Unless that financial load is made to be shared with taxpayers statewide — no can do. So they get some greeniac commission to kill it off so no Democrat politicians have to take any blame.