I've been hearing about water issues my entire life living in California but I don't worry about it because one of these days people will come to their senses and realize clean water is a precious resource that is priced too cheaply. Once we pay for it what it's worth, it will no longer be economical to grow water intensive crops [1] and it will become economical desalinate Pacific Ocean water like San Diego [2] powered by the falling price of renewable energy [3] (one day with plentiful fusion energy maybe) or pumping water from Oregon to California through an undersea pipeline [4] and more far out plans like pumping water from Alaska using 6 nuclear powered pumping stations and atomic bombs to dig trenches will be unnecessary [6] [7]
edit: For example, people are fine with paying $2 for a bottle of clean water but farmers get mad if you suggest paying more than $70 an acre foot for similar quality water. An acre foot is 325,851 gallons of good clean water suitable for growing the high quality crops California is known for
[1] https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-...
[2] https://www.sdcwa.org/your-water/local-water-supplies/seawat...
[3] https://www.statista.com/chart/26085/price-per-megawatt-hour...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_interstate_water_pipe...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...
[7] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nijhuis/pipe-dreams-the...
edit: For example, people are fine with paying $2 for a bottle of clean water but farmers get mad if you suggest paying more than $70 an acre foot for similar quality water. An acre foot is 325,851 gallons of good clean water suitable for growing the high quality crops California is known for