On 2015-05-24 17:32:21 +0000, Cabrito del Bosque said:

>>> Where will your water come from? Are you in California?
>>
>> We will have rain next winter, and then all will be forgotten. And
>> then everyone will be surprised when we have insufficient water during
>> the next totally predictable drought.
>>
> There's an el Nino already formed, but it hasn't helped Cali much...yet...

Having El Niño conditions doesn't automatically mean will get the same
drenching we got back in 1997/1998, sadly. But some are hoping that
may well be the case late in the year.

We are building at least one, possibly two desalination plants, but
that will only provide drinking water, it will be progressively more
relative to distance-from-plant.

There are many ways to conserve water in agriculture, but many/most
cost money to impliment, and since water prices haven't gone up,
farmers are reluctant to spend the money--at this point.

Providing financial incentives for citizens to use less water (like
rebates for replacing grass lawns), is good for educational purposes
and perhaps shifting the cultural attitudes towards the idea of a
permanent abundance of water, but the citizenry uses a relatively small
amount of the resource comparitive to various industries.

It is a big problem which can only be solved--as usual--by following the money.

Hopefully our drought will end somewhat similarly to the way the
drought is concluding in Oklahoma and Texas, but hopefully without the
extraordinary loss of life. I live a quarter mile from the Santa Ana
river in Orange County. Part of a golf course in the bed of the river
at this juncture. Still it is now a massive (concrete chute) of a
river bed that traditionally wrecked neighborhoods and lives in
Huntington Beach every 10 years or so, until it was paved. I'm looking
for it to be a bona-fide raging river for a few months.