I know I am way oversimplifying this. Last week I made a trip to sand hill road and had some fun. My most interesting takeaway from the trip wasn't any of those meetings, it was the many signs along I-5 between LA and SF. Yall need water, bad. I hope this is a potential solution.
I feel like this is the other way around. 95% of what I hear about California water shortage stuff has been from people outside of the state.
That and wildfires 500 miles away from me are about all people outside of the state ever seen to hear about. From the way they tell it it sounds like they're concerned that I'm going to die of thirst.