[oatmeal1]

The problem isn't storage capacity. It's wasteful consumption growing water-intensive crops in the desert.

[ryankshaw]

It absolutely is about storage capacity. If California built out a better system of reservoirs, it wouldn't need to take water from other states in the Colorado river basin.

[bibimsz]

crops are kind of important though

[Izikiel43]

You can grow almonds elsewhere, they are not needed for daily life

[cowsandmilk]

They don’t have to be grown in the desert