California has been obtaining water from outside the state for well over 60 years to feed its ever-increasing seemingly insatiable appetite for residential and commercial construction. The salty Colorado River (yes, I said salty) has been tapped by California almost to exhaustion; just take a look at this mighty river as it leaves the United States.
It strikes me as being very similar to the Greek financial crisis — an unending quest for more money without any structural changes in how they spend it.
California’s situation begs many questions, not the least of which is: Where are you with desalinization? Why are you not curbing, let alone stopping, new home construction for areas in critical need of water?
The solution(s) may be right before them.
Having said the above, we have to remember that California is the state that produces the largest percentage of food in our country, and we all depend on them to do so. We certainly cannot grow our own needs here in the Northwest; there’s simply not enough sun and adequate richness in our soils.
