[legitster]

> Even if it dries up, and the aqueduct pulling water from the Central Valley and Eastern Sierra breaks - that really only impacts LA.

Again, you seem to be dismissive that California is about to destroy the economy of two other states in a quest for cheap water.

The CRC:

>Extreme shortage. The most severe shortage considered in the interim guidelines is when the level of Lake Mead drops below 1,025 feet (312 m), in which event 7,000,000 acre-feet (8.6 km3) per year will be delivered to the Lower Basin states: 4,400,000 acre-feet (5.4 km3) to California, 2,320,000 acre-feet (2.86 km3) to Arizona, and 280,000 acre-feet (0.35 km3) to Nevada.

90% of the water in Las Vegas comes from Lake Mead. In the event of Lake Mead drying up, the entire state of Nevada gets less than 0.5% of the volume of the Colorado. While I guess it's nice to know that SoCal has other options when the water runs out, we're talking about a humanitarian disaster for a Las Vegas that has no other options.

If desalination is really unnecessary, California should stop blocking efforts to revise the Compact.

[lazide]

Hardly dismissive - it’s called staying on topic? A question was asked, folks seem to not know the how or the why if the situation - so here I am.

The California diversion of the Colorado is downstream of AZ and NV. California only gets the water they let it have, under the agreement. Which California probably has more lawyers than total population in both AZ and NV state Capitals, so there is that.

California has always out ‘peopled’ and out ‘moneyed’ it’s neighbors, and LA+SF has done that within the state.

When resources were seemingly infinite and the country was growing at a breakneck pace, that was controversial but didn’t really break things.

Everything has a breaking point somewhere. We’ll see if this is one of them.