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Oren wrote:

CA refuses to build
desalinization plants.

We built one in Santa Barbara. Then the voters demanded we be hooked up
to State Water. So the desal plant, having never been put on line, was
mothballed for quite a few years, then sold to some South American
country IIRC.

Desalinization is a pretty spendy way to get water, though.