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In reply to the discussion: California Running out of Water [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)See posts below quoting from articles about the desalination plants in the three countries I just named. Saudi Arabia has oil. California has an incredible amount of sun. It is a matter of building the infrastructure. Laissez faire economics will not work in the face of the drought we are experiencing. We need pro-active government investment in solar energy and desalination plants. Other countries do it. We can too.
After all, in the rest of the country, snow plows can be very expensive as can building and maintaining dams, purifying lake water and river water, and all the work required to deal with the surplus of water in many areas of the country.
We don't spend much on heating homes and buildings in Southern California. It will just be a matter of allocating resources to fit our needs.