California drying up right before your eyes...

[JDPriestly]

16. Curbing use will not take care of the problem.

Curbing use is a short-term solution. Curbing development would take an entirely different view of the rights of people to use private property. It's unlikely that we are going to be able to curb development quickly enough to reduce water use.

Population growth? Curbing population growth is absolutely essential for the entire human race. But we need to talk to the Pope, the fundamentalists and the Muslim leaders about it because they are the reason we cannot curb our excessive population growth.

Most Californians are doing what we can to reduce our water use. When I wash vegetables or need to run cold water until it is hot, I put the water I use into buckets and water the pots in which I grow vegetables with it. I put out buckets when it rains so that I can water more intensively the plants that I want to grow.

We will have to desalinate water. I know many hate that prospect, but it will have to happen. It will be environmentally better than bringing truck-loads of water from the Midwest, East and Northwest into California. And that's the only alternative.