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Originally Posted by opendoor
Desalinated water is insanely expensive. California's problem isn't a drinking water shortage; it's that agriculture there uses an obscene amount of water to grow things that shouldn't be grown in such a dry climate (almonds, pistachios, alfalfa, etc.).
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California is not going to shut down a multi billion dollar agriculture industry overnight.
And yes, the farming practices leads to insane water usage for the things you mentioned, but when there is snowpack and rain in the Sierra Nevada and Lassen Peak mountains, which there has been the last couple years, how much of that water is being captured before it flows into the ocean? Not enough.
Outside of severe drought, it is possible to properly manage water usage even in high usage areas. California just sucks at it. Badly.