Why does california have water shortages?

To turn seawater into drinking water is called desalination. Desalination plants are very common in middle east countries where there is a shortage of fresh water. However, a desalination plant uses a large amount of electricity. California does not have the capability or grid to produce or distribute enough electricity to produce the amount of water needed from the ocean. California's environmental extremists are totally against building nuclear, coal, natural gas or hydro powered electrical generation plants, let alone the new power line right of ways.

Have you heard the term "NIMBY"? ( Not In My Backyard.) Don't build anything in my state or backyard. Lets make the states of Oregon and Washington build a pipeline from the Coumbia river to California to supply us with water for our hot tubs and swimming pools.

Don't believe it? Do a little research.

Same reason California does not have new power generating facilities.

A we have the world's five largest economy, and we care so much about the environment. But while we are at it other states have to provide us energy at a cheaper rate than their own citizens because we are just so special. Water is a limited resource, California has a large amount of desert/ arid land that folks just seem to want to put houses on and expect to be able to turn on a facuet without making any kind of impact. All in defiance of the laws of nature and physics.

California is naturally a desert. Deserts don't have much water.

Lots of California's water is taken from deep aquifers. The water is being extracted faster than it gets replenished.

Sure the technology used to provide water for ships might be used to provide water for the residents of California but it would be enormous and costly. The population of California is many thousands of times the population of a ship.

Aruba is a desert island and they provide most of their water from desalination. They have been doing it fpr years and years and still have excess capacity. They do not have excessive amounts of electricity to run this. How do they do it and California can't. Many of the islands in the carribbean get their water this way. They built a desalination plant here in Tampa Bay but they couldn't build one that works as well as that in Aruba. Do they have better engineers than us? I doubt it. What we have are politicians who want to give projects based on who it is going to and not how well they can do the job.

They waste everything, That is way they have a finical problem. They make new taxes and waste the money. and also waste the money to support illegal alien growth. The illegals probably are they reason for their water shortage too. They Shiite up everything.

look ahead to the subsequent vast quake, the entire state will sink into the sea and there wont be any scarcity of water anymore. in basic terms a sidenote, it doesnt take plenty to reclaim water from the sea, and it truly is a coastline state....they could evaluate desalination vegetation.

its really difficult and extremely expensive to convert saltwater into freshwater, thats whay its not done very often. Its so mych easier for us to use groundwater or the colorado river

desalination is too expensive

Adrian.

Payback from God.