William Shatner’s $30 Billion Kickstarter Campaign to Save California

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5. There are already plans to float it in from Sitka

but what California needs to do is realize the drought has been going on for 13 years, not 4, and to realize this is perfectly normal from time to time and that they'd better prepare for it to settle in and act accordingly.

Agriculture uses 80% of the water and that's where the biggest capital investment has to come, changing from spray irrigation to subsoil drip irrigation. Yes, that makes mechanization problematic for some crops. However, they need to reduce as much evaporation of scarce water into the air as they can and drip irrigation is the way to do it.

Homeowners are going to have to learn how to do things like wash clothing less frequently and bag the dishwashers, they're water wasters. Golf courses need to Astroturf their fairways, although the putting green with grass is likely to stay. Water hazards should be no more.

Swimming pools need solar covers to stop evaporation when no one is swimming.

Lawn grass and English gardens need to go.

Instead of a pipeline so they can continue to be profligate with water, California needs a period of trying to conserve it so that after the next wet/dry cycle, they won't be caught quite as dry as they are now.