“This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen,” said Peter Gleick, a leading water scientist and co-founder of the Pacific Institute. “Climate change is influencing California’s water system quickly and severely.”
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LA has the goddamned ocean on one side and the San Bernardino mountains on the other. There’s easily a dozen options available today between those two to give 100% of Angelinos water, don’t be silly.
They’re starting to drink their own toilet water just like San Diego too. For ocean desalination to meet their needs it would have to go along with a nuclear power plant. Actually nuclear desalination sounds bad ass - steam distillation of sea water and molten sea salt allowed to cool into bricks.