Strangely I am concerned about the dryness will more likely trigger an earthquake there. Can they somehow transport sea water to inland? if there is a need for that I'm sure CA will have some startup working on that.
Only if there's a social angle.
California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago
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Re: California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago
#72Wonder what it would be like 30 years from now with all the water problems.
Probably as bad the population problems we have now that were hypothesized in the 1970s?
Interestingly, in Asimov's Caves of Steel, the Earth was hopelessly overpopulated, with eight billion people! That book was published in 1954, and set in to future three thousand years ahead.
Today, 61 years later, the population of Earth is 7.3 billion people, and there is little doubt that life with 8 billion people, in a decade from now, will not be dramatically different from what we live at the moment.
There's some work to do in order to make it sustainable, but it's not such a disaster.
Re: California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's infuriating. Agriculture is the main consumer of water in CA by a mile, but the sort of self-indulgence you describe sets a disproportionately bad example and avoidably confuses the issue.
It's easily resolved by properly pricing water. Tie the water price to rainfall and you've solved the entire problem. Let the market take care of it.
Unfortunately, not so easy. Then, here will come other unsustainable but cheaper markets (other states, Mexico, Asia etc).