Comment Wrong solution (Score 1) 678
Water scarcity in California is a political problem with a political solution.
To better understand why a pipeline is a non-starter...
From the perspective of the cashew farmer: would you rather buy cheap water from the local utility or expensive water from the Great Lakes?
From the perspective of the pipeline investor: would you invest in a project to send water to CA when the people most likely to buy it will have ever more restrictions on water use?
And now for the solution to this and many problems...
Simply remove use restrictions and let the market properly set the price of this scarce product.