I always liked higher prices as a means to promote conservation.  How much would water have to cost for Recycled Water to pay for itself in, say 30 years?  If we slowly move the price of water in that direction (as any private company would do if its supply of a natural resource was dwindling), I bet that private companies would start producing water from all kinds of unconventional sources.

Alas, the disrespect for our neighbors to the south (or ignorance of their water plight, perhaps) has been institutionalized into our reliance on government to provide us with water.  As the author has pointed out previously, the cost of the Mulholland plan is great.  Unfortunately, it has been spread over so many people that none of us feel enough pain to dismantle it.  The few being enriched by their connections to government are also quite adept at maintaining the dispersion of pain.  It’s a microcosm of government programs in general.

“...Another plan I think would be to build the plant, treat the water and record the names and addresses of those that were opposed.  When drinking supply is low, they get rationed first because god forbid we pump toilet water into their homes....”

Ha ha ha!  I’d just like to register myself, just in case, as one of the UNopposed ones?  Thanks!

Nice diatribe.