[cpeterso]

Growing up in California, I remember drought scares and water restrictions in the 1980s. Why didn't the state do anything then? We could be on our third generation of "ten-year moonshot projects" for desalination or other water solutions.

[nomass]

I don't think it's the states problem. You find this kind of alarming situations all over the planet. The development pattern is always the same: Use it to the end as fast as possible. The poorer or weaker the state the faster it goes. But the development and the direction takes place with or without state.