> Half the California population is in Los Angeles and below but their water is coming from northern California.

And what's not coming from NorCal is coming from the Colorado River.

> The climate anxiety crowd would like you to think water is 'running out' but the reality is just spectacular mismanagement incompetence.

The reality is both. California was able to get away with mismanagement for a long time, but climate change throwing a wrench in the wet/dry cycle means getting away with said mismanagement is decreasingly viable. Aquifers / water tables are dangerously low and getting lower.

California has one of the longest coastlines in the US. Droughts could be entirely irrelevant if California extracted its cranium from its rectum and put that coastline to use with desal plants galore.