There's a lot going on in Southern California.
It is also naturally a lot more of a desert that it is now. You've got an unnaturally high amount of plant life there, and then you throw in increased population and climate change causing a drought.
California is moving at a snails pace on dealing with its issues. They've been talking about large scale desalination, but there's been no major movement in the face of, what clearly, is now becoming an immediate disaster. The response should have been let's mobilize the army if we need to get this done as it's ultra urgent. Instead it's been a decade of deliberation, with successive governments promising to streamline the process.
The irony is that it's often environmental groups that block the desalination initiatives, which might be the best way to combat global warming related damage. I suppose from their perspective you'd be opening one hole to patch another, but expecting global warming to stop isn't all that realistic.
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