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Originally Posted by daepp
Diamond Valley Lake in Riverside County is the last of the reservoirs to be built. It's the end of the line for MWD. Planned in the 70's and finished in the 90's (I think).
Unfortunately, California's water system was designed for a state of 20 million people - we are now close to 40 million.
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Well, 90% of CA water use is agricultural so it is more about the highly productive farming than population. Hopefully they can move to less water dependent crops and bring water use closer to parity with reliable water resources. If they had a bunch of nukes then desalination would be viable but... had to shut all but one down because of the Greens.
Water will be the next gold rush in the southwest as climate changes over time. Widespread farming in AZ and the Coachella valley is now probably over.