It does require a lot of thought and what it really requires is to not remove the most obvious water supply technology (which also works quite well for flood protection) which is dams, from the top of the discussion.
Editorial: Water: To get right answer, ask right questions
In a complex system, dams can only be part of a complicated statewide solution
Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, October 7, 2007
If anyone should be concerned about California's water situation, it's the leaders of the San Diego County Water Authority.
This agency, which provides water to 3 million people in the San Diego area, is 90 percent dependent on supplies from the Colorado River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Both are in trouble. The Colorado is plagued by drought, and the Delta has become an increasingly unreliable plumbing valve for moving water south.
Over the long run, both the Colorado River Basin and the Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed are vulnerable to climate change. If you worry about sinkholes in La Jolla, imagine the maw that will swallow Southern California if both the Colorado and the Sierra are hit by simultaneous 25-year droughts.
