California's Big Green Dream

Kevin Williamson:

California doesn’t need a global carbon-emissions regime; it needs a better water system.

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Here we have a collision of history and geography: California’s water supply is in its mountainous east, but its people are in its largely arid west. There is a great deal of desert between the thirsty people of Los Angeles and the Colorado River or the eastern Sierra snowpack. As California’s population has grown, a tangle of political interests ranging from narrow ideological environmentalism to rank NIMBYism — to say nothing of the constant desire to spend money directly on immediate benefits for political constituencies — has prevented the state’s water infrastructure from keeping up with its population.
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They are wasting an awful lot of water dumping it into the Pacific Ocean while restricting human usage.