California Running out of Water

[JDPriestly]

45. You have to have water to recycle water.

We really don't get enough water.

We will need a mix of recycling and desalinizing. There is no way around it.

We probably also need a moratorium on development, but that probably can't happen because it would probably be illegal somehow.

In Los Angeles, a tremendous amount of new housing is being built and planned. For the moment, I don't know how the builders think the people living in the housing will have water.

But, as i pointed out, the advantages in terms of savings on heating costs and the costs of repairing damage to infrastructure from weather events and disasters are great in Southern California. We don't have flooding in dry years. We don't have to plow snow. We heat our houses for very little money and very little damage to our environment.

So the costs to the environment and to our pocketbooks evens out.
eslainate
Even with regard to earthquakes, California homeowners buy earthquake insurance, so we are building a fund to help us rebuild when the inevitable earthquake happens. Think of the cost of Katrina, and then think of the cost of building facilities for fulfilling California's water needs. Per capita, I think we in California deserve the same kind of help that people in other parts of the country receive in terms of investment and financial aid when they have natural disaster problems.

We just voted to put money into water facilities.

And if Saudi Arabia, Israel and Australia can desalinate water, we will figure out how to do it too. We have enormous untapped potential in solar energy. That is especially true now that we are in what appears to be a long-term drought.

I don't think the water recycling will be enough long-term.

Above all, we need to stop fracking and other oil production that uses a lot of water.