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Are you consuming the right-wing LIES, that somehow we cannot "afford" to cultivate fresh water for our citizens? Where do you think this money comes form?
How is it that the wealthiest monetarily sovereign government cannot "afford" the technology to desalinate the world's largest pond, but can "afford" to wage countless wars? How is it that "cost" is the common excuse to refuse to solve any problems that serve the interest of the general population?
You've been duped.
My question will stand. How can the wealthiest state in the wealthiest nation bordered by the largest water supply on the planet possibly have such a dire water shortage?
It's amazing what a country of 8 million, with a land mass less than NJ, can achieve when it does not fund/finance other countries and instead receives funding from the US government and evangelical interests. That income tax and an 18% VAT is substantially higher than in the US helps, too.
Let's add this to the list of Universal Healthcare including abortion and birth control and very low cost university education for those who earn it.
That's what I just said. According to liberals if there were no illegals there would be no farming in California. The valley farmers would pack up and we would save billions of gallons of water wasted on growing produce in the desert.
Big Ag is liberal?
Tell that to Texas and Florida.
Desal is not unreasonably expensive for residential users these days, though it would run up the price of agricultural products significantly. The major hurdle for doing it is rainfall. Eventually the snow comes and the reservoirs fill and it can no longer compete. The plants are mothballed and fall into decay. It is a lousy investment unless you can force people to use desal in good and bad times. If drought were certain, CA would certainly be doing desal on a much grander scale.
Big Ag doesn't pass laws. Congress passes laws. The executive branch makes sure they are enforced. Or ignored.
Illegal immigration became a tidal wave 30 years ago and peaked with the housing bubble. It has not mattered who sat the oval or held the majority. Get over the partisanship.
So long as federal government gives business a wink, undocumented workers will continue to be employed.
No matter who is elected in 2016, ( and I sincerely hope it's a Republican) there will be no mass deportation.
California isn't the only place with this problem.
Atlanta also has a severe water shortage. Several years ago some in GA state gov't were claiming that, according to a few 200 year old maps, parts of Chattanooga were actually in GA which included a portion of the Tenn River and therefore GA had access rights to the water. But that went nowhere fast.
I've read that parts of Texas also has severe drought conditions. And there are other geographic areas as well. This is only going to get worse.
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