Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "California's Water Problem" video.

  1. Property taxes are relatively low because of Prop 13 limitations, hence the raised taxes on everything else. Homeless live there due to low availability of housing (promoted by pro-landowner policies like Prop 13) and because the climate is survivable year-round. The vast majority of the water gets used by agriculture, who are incentivized to not be efficient with their consumption by the state's "use it or lose it" water rights laws that they also intensively lobby against updating. So yes politics is the problem, but it's not necessarily because of a patronizing political agenda.
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  2. Democrat leadership hamstrung by powerful conservative interests like low-density homeowners and rural agriculture.
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  3. Yeah it helps preserve the fish stock and prevents the salting of the earth on estuary farms from ocean ingress.
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  4. Where do we put all that super-saline brine though. California's cold oceans are also rich fishing grounds, and such drastic changes in salinity destroys the vibrant ecosystem.
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  5. More like conservative pushback from low-density homeowners and big agriculture who refuse to be more efficient with their own consumption.
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  6. The video mentioned that the runoff from the rivers is crucial in preventing the salting of the earth on those farms.
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  7. And the biggest advocates are conservative rural farmers.
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