California Faces Statewide Mandatory Water
Restrictions as Drought Worsens

It's a desert. They ran out of their own water 125 years ago, started stealing water from hundreds of miles around ....all legally done, but underhanded, and corrupt. Sorry, LA is out of water, and has too may people there. I've visited LA a bunch, friends lived there, I had conferences there, and I vacationed there. Lots of fun stuff, and it is interesting to leave a conference in short sleeved shirts and drive a couple of hours and do some night skiing. But LA is out of water. The only really workable solution is desalination, which can be solar powered low tech or complex, high tech. Either way....they won't be getting any more big infusions of water from anywhere else like they did back in Mulholland's day. And droughts, especially in deserts, can last for many decades.

How many pisses per flush now?

A liberal solution: keep allowing huge population increases each year, not through organic growth, but by importing people who should be returned to their countries of origin. Cause overcrowding, then blame climate change.

State wide. I had the impression, but may be wrong, that northern California had enough water for the much smaller populations which live there. AFAIK, the coastal big cities overdrew their water supplies a century and a half ago.

They continue to allow millions of gallons to be sent out of the Sacramento Delta into the ocean, they fight any desalinization options, and won't build water pipeline to bring water in from some other parts of the country. The overwhelming largest users of water is agriculture, not residential which is less than 10% of the total usage.

Better solutions: 1) Deport about 10,000,000 illegal aliens. 2) Kill the Bullet Train to Nowhere and use the money to build more dams. 3) Recall all the Democrat politicians and replace them with conservatives.

Californians would benefit from kneeling and praying to the guy who makes the weather happen.

Maybe if they kept the water instead of sending into the pacific it might help their problem. Also, are these filthy rich loud- mouthed liberals keeping their lavish swimming pools filled to the brim? You bet they are.

To save on water Californians can install outhouses. Outhouse plans are free on the internet.

An outhouse in a condo is called a balcony.

I'm sure none of dem who "matter" will be thirsty.

God is telling them something.

Keep letting millions of gallons drain into the ocean every year!

I knew the engineer involved with tapping the Colorado River across the desert to a development East of Scottsdale. The Central Arizona Project was a main contributor to the massive business and housing boom of the '80's. IIRC, Cali had dibs on a certain amount of water which limited Az from diverting the amount of water they said they needed. Àrizona spent large dollars to bring in water, in the meantime, Cali spent large dollars building huge concrete gutters to send the rainfall to the Pacific. You can't make up this level of stupid.

As a native of the formerly golden state, I can tell you the basic problem is the leftist loons who refuse to recognize that a large part of the state is a desert.

God's message to Pharoah Newsom

BFH (Boo---Frickin'-- Hoo)

In a normal year San Diego County gets 10% of its water from desalination. If the state cuts back then it will be higher than 10%.

Democrats didn't used to be crazy. Pat Brown, Jerry Brown's dad created the state water project. Reservoirs and Aqueducts to collect and distribute water from the north state to agriculture and cities throughout California. Many more reservoirs were planned but cancelled by various lawsuits and action by politicians. Several years ago the state had a "wet year". That year in the Sacramento river basin, 42 million acre feet of water was diverted to the yolo bypass (5 mile wide ditch leading around Sacramento to the Bay) and flowed directly into the ocean via San Francisco bay. That is about six years worth of water for the state water project. Additionally, every summer huge amounts of water (I was told trillions of gallons) are released from the remaining reservoirs to "save the smelt", a small introduced non-native fish that feeds game fish. It is alleged that the environmental law suit that caused the water to be released was initiated by well off bay area fisherman to try to ensure plentiful sport fishing for themselves. The smelt situation hasn't improved, but many small farms have been destroyed. This tragedy seems to confer a great benefit to rich real estate developers. I suspect that the smelt mostly feed the resurgence of thousands of sea lions and many sea otters that now populate the San Francisco bay and that may be the reason for the decline in the smelt population. There isn't really a water shortage, simply a stupidity oversupply among the coastal voters that keep putting the Democrats in power.

People still live there? What's the upside?

Can all those illegal alien hordes still use all the water they want since they're so protected?

Does anyone really give a damn about California? Certainly not I... C'mon San Andreas do your thing!