by "too many people" do you mean using residential water? It is a small fraction of CA's water use. I am all for sustainability, not having lawns in the desert, etc, but agriculture is the first place to look in CA.
I wonder how much water the largest mono-crop field in the world uses... it is in California and it is almonds.
Question is also where that water all goes - they say an almond takes 1.1 gallons of water but it clearly doesn’t all end up in the almond.
There's probably a lot of it that end up evaporating...
Not just there. The aquifers under the plains are also almost drained. A lot of that is not for those local people, but for food production for people nationally and internationally.