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Yes, Norcal spent decades wagging fingers at SoCal about this. There were books like Cadillac Desert. Meanwhile, San Francisco drinks clean glacier water that a valley in Yosemite was destroyed to provide this and they refuse to repurpose a downstream damn that has enough capacity to do it. Physician, heal thyself.
Can you clarify what you mean by: “they refuse to repurpose a downstream dam” California has insufficient water storage to meet demand, it’s not like we have huge dams lying around that we leave empty when there is water available to fill them. You might be referring to Don Pedro dam - but we are already filling that up (modulo what we need to keep empty for flood control). SF has some contractual right they could po…
California has rewilded the Trinity River, resurrected Mono Lake, and has protected a lot of its special places. Voters have voted to tax themselves for state parks. I know that the environment, especially aside from climate issues, just aren't sexy right now. But it still matters to me. I remember the Southern California skies in the 1970s. It's not perfect now, but the improvement despite the increase in people and cars is something to celebrate too.
The only people who oppose this are the rate payers in the place that externalized the cost of the Hetch Hetchy on the world.
Some of the environmental word today might just shout slogans and prattle on with pseudoscientific babble, but there have been a lot of serious people in these efforts, just like with the other cases I mentioned.