[speedybird]

"During the Medieval Warm Period, there were at least two century-long megadroughts with only 60-70% of modern precipitation levels. Paleoclimatologists believe that higher temperatures due to global warming may cause California to enter another dry period, with significantly lower precipitation and snowpack levels than observed over the last 150 years.[7]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_California#P...

It seems at this rate, California won't realize it needs desalination plants until it's too late. Desalination plants need a whole lot of power, so California should be preparing for that by building up their energy production capacity.