> Not true in California due to the state water project. Very much true in California, your info is incorrect. There is no central water source. There are ton

> Not true in California due to the state water project. Very much true in California, your info is incorrect. There is no central water source. There are tons of independent unrelated water systems. Source: My small town in California has its own and every nearby small town have their own. Every one struggles with drought conditions but each one is different. Some feed off mountain runoff and rivers, some are from groundwater only, some are threathened by seawater incursion some are not, and so on. In some of these drought years some of them have nearly run out of water completely, others have more spare capacity.