AN I suppose we can’t talk about water without talking about energy, but you’ve done a couple of 180s so I’m not even sure what we’re debating about. Fusion is code word for clean cheap energy, regardless of how many years out it is. Nuclear is neither clean nor cheap. I’d be all for Nuclear if the communities that consumed it were then responsible for it’s waste management in their own community. Yucca Mtn is geologically stable as far as we know, but it’s also I believe exporting the waste to poor brown people, also known as Indians. I’m totally not in favor of doing that anymore.
So back to the water. You advocate finding more sources, I advocate learning to live within our means, because as I see it technology cannot save us from this. It’s just techno narcist fantasy to believe we can grow forever and that is assuming we could even agree on what is growth. The drought is and has been here for a while, more funding won’t solve the problem, more sources for water will only temporarily alleviate it, whereas learning to live with what we can locally/regionally get actually is a solution.
