I have an issue with the way this piece is written. It both acknowledges and ignores the fact that we don’t have the infrastructure right now to do much about t

I have an issue with the way this piece is written. It both acknowledges and ignores the fact that we don’t have the infrastructure right now to do much about the excess water we have by constantly asking the question, “why doesn’t California just do X right now” well, I don’t know Sherlock, maybe reread your last paragraph? This is the same problem that plagues democratically elected public service and why it’s so expensive to do public works projects. Compound this with a glut of regulations and bureaucratic nonsense that nobody except the special interest group that championed it want (and subsequently are the only ones benefiting from it), and you get a situation where we have projects so large that only elected officials can feasibly spearhead but they will be in office to see them to completion. Enter the perverse incentive to over promise and under deliver because it’s the next guys problem. Perhaps the biggest obstacle right now is that California has very strict environmental laws that would prevent it from even building the same dams and water ways it has now. It would require an act by the state legislature to create a exception to a handful of these laws just to get anything done.