Why is it that I remember that Lake Tahoe is drying up, that means the NorCal water system is equally disrupted. (https://www.newsweek.com/trees-dying-drought-california-lake-tahoe-1745685) Newsweek article “Drought Is Killing the Trees at Lake Tahoe”

By the way, there is a problem with using Diablo Nuclear Reactor, it is VERY old, and it is not up to compliance with the NRC, which is actually a very PRO Nuclear Agency. The report is found here (https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/despite-a-grace-period-for-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-federal-regulators-say-no-to-resuming/article_5e7d4380-a800-11ed-bd8e-3f2563b6acce.html) “Despite a grace period for Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, federal regulators say no to resuming review of PG&E’s extension request.”

“PG&E HAD HOPED TO RESUME THE LICENSE APPLICATION it started in 2009 and withdrew in 2018, when it told the NRC that Diablo wasn’t needed “to meet California’s projected energy demand requirement” but cried poor in other circles. Though the utility said it could provide the safety and environmental documents by the end of 2023, the NRC staff observed the data was required with the license application now.”

So it would seem it is not feasible to operate Diablo Canyon for this purpose. Someone here is not being up to date regarding whether that rector can safely operate.

Nuclear desalination such as described in the report about using Diablo Canyon for this, would work, producing 4 1/2 times the water the Delta bypass sought since the start of the State Water Project might provide, of Sacramento River water to places south of the Delta, but so many in the state are incompetent and phobic to hysterical (routinely irrational) about anything and everything nuclear.

Runoff collection, like rainwater capture in other places, can face opposition by environmentalists when taken to a larger scale. The North Coast rivers, where most of the state’s water is, is largely off limits at this time, and most water use in the state remains as usual, environmental, followed by ag, then by urban (settlements, residential-commercial-industrial uses). Sending North Coast water from new reservoirs to the rest of the system could be done but would be expensive. (What price life, later?)

The carried-to-the-end understanding of warming from fossil fuel combustion and related phenomena was established and well-known by the late 1970s, early 1980s, including the aridification (drying) of California and the rest of the Southwest inland of it, as well as other parts of the West, and it’s merely a matter largely of refinement and introducing this or that additional element since then, but there’s no end to the alarmist, misleading, irrational, and sick behavior among climate movement adherents. (Quasi-religious and at times cultist, when more moved) We who know better have no need for climate celebrities any more than eco-barons who keep proving P.T. Barnum correct and make a living of sorts at it, nor for the political infiltration into academia as well as the media and government (as happens with other political trends), substituting for the real. The state has time to prepare for worse and should prepare for the worse, a reduction of water supply. The Colorado River system and its users faces a harsher challenge. Note that So-Cal depends on Colorado River water and if losing it, will need more water from the north.

As I said, RAIN is a VERY LIMITED resource now. IT IS UNRELIABLE.

Why can’t you understand it. We nee a supply we can capture that will not run out, That ony resource is the PACIFIC OCEAN.

But if you think you can hope for rain to finally replenish what we are losing go ahead.

By the way you should watch the show “THE END IS NYE” with Bill Nye, he is discussing the exact problem we are having in CA, and as he demonstrates in the episode “MIDNIGHT AT NOON” we are repeating the same problems that caused the Dust Bowl.

But you can go ahead and watch the train wreck.

From what I understand a Dam will not replenish ground water, Not unless it is designed to do it. But most dams in CA are electric generating dams and they also are aqueduct feeders. The only way to replenish ground water is with MORE RAIN, or pumping water in from another source. Yuo can REUSE sewage to this, but it needs to be treated. I think you can also pump in sea water, but it also will require a lot of treatment, I just learned that from this article (https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/artificial-groundwater-recharge).

So the real issue is finding a unrestricted resource of water, the ocean appears to be the only one for us.

Remember most of the land in CA is FEDERALLY managed, so the state has VERY little power over it.

And also, the other real issue is that very soon we will be back to the dry atmospheric conditions which will EVAPORATE the recent additions to the water resurces. Currently lake mead is at 1047 when in 2022 ot was 1067 and in 2021 it was at 1087. We are at peak volume right now.

We typically lose as much as 3-4% of water levels during the year which means by July we will be at 1020 levels in Lake Mead. If it reaches 950 feet it will DEAD POOL. With only 70 feet difference if we conserve water we will barely get by. But if the weather does what is expected it will warm up significantly and be much drier in the next 6 months.

When you have variables out of your control, like CLIMATE SHIFT, it means the government has no choice but to adjust. Too many people BELEIVE you can magically have more water. That is a massive delusion.

And also, any “farming irrigation” that loses water is equally to blame, that is the majority of the farms in the state. But no one wants to tell the FARMERS to get their acts together. Because they want the taxpayers to pay for it.

Face it people, we are FAR from risk regarding water shortages.