For sure! The thing is, I don’t see any other choice. If we assume that increasing efficiency and reducing waste won’t solve the problem (which I don’t think it will) then increasing supply is all that is left. There’s nowhere else in the country that can replace California as the breadbasket of North America. The endless hours of sunshine, getting three or more crops a year of every major produce, etc are what is feeding most of the US and much of Canada.
Desalination plants in particular, are honestly a pretty terrible solution. They are an act of desperation, not the magic bullet that people tend to treat them as. They have huge energy requirements (coughclimate changecough) and they produce toxic waste in the form of hyper salty sludge that murders the ocean in a large radius around them. We should be doing everything possible to avoid needing to build them, but they do seem inevitable at this point.
Strong agree! I think we basically agree on everything, it just took us a while to figure that out. 
