[smt88]

> Plus the government is led by people who refer to much of the southwest as “fly over country” doesn’t help.

The people who (you assume) don't use the term "flyover country" are the people stopping Congress from spending money to fix environmental crises like drought.

Even so, the White House has ordered studies and gotten Congress to spend a lot of money on the Southwest already[1].

What else are you looking for, exactly? My understanding is that the current crisis is mostly due to agriculture and water rights, and I don't know how they could legally legislate agriculture in a state. That is the responsibility of the state's own government.

1. https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/06/01/biden-h...

[PaulDavisThe1st]

The bureau of reclamation started building dams and irrigation systems in the 1940s. They enabled current patterns of agriculture. They could disable them too,

[bagels]

Desalinization plants built by California or the Federal Government.

[dreamcompiler]

Desal can work for residential use in cities. But desal for agriculture is supplied by mother nature and it's called "rain." Replacing agricultural rain with man-made desal would require a 10x-1000x scaleup in cost and energy and area over the desal plants now feasible. In most cases it would probably be cheaper to move the farms to rainier areas.

[smt88]

I still don't think I understand how that helps Midwestern and Southwestern states other than California, unless you mean the goal is to give California a way to stop using as much.