Solving California's Water Needs

22 June 2001 - 5:00am

Though the recent power crisis has garnered a lot of attention lately, California is still working on the decades old problem of meeting its demand for water.

"Demand for water is rising. And so are tensions. The northern part of the state, which has most of the water, balks at sending more to the Central Valley and Southern California. This north-south feud, the backbone of California's water wars, remains intense despite a state-federal brokered compromise. Northerners complain that too much water already heads south, hurting their economy and environment, and harming fish populations."

Source: Orange County Register, October 4, 2005
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.