I really believe that if California cannot find a practical way to desalinate and purify ocean water, vast swaths of the State (and much of the American Southwest) will become an uninhabitable desert in my lifetime (for the record I’m 33).

It will be interesting to see things play out of politically as there are a FUCKton of very powerful and very monied interests both in Southern California and Nevada.

I wonder if long distance piping is an option? Surely if we can build oil pipelines that criss cross the country we could build a water line too? I’m no engineering expert but it at least seems to me it would be theoretically possible.