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The other prominent issue is our water use. We pump our water down to LA from 500 miles away. It's totally unsustainable and yet we keep building new housing in the outskirts of town, ever expanding the need for water, irrigation for lawns (a really, really bad idea in LA), and other wasteful practices. It would be better to spend the money on creating storage for when it does rain here (rarely) and creating the infrastructure to deliver captured water to homes and gardens.