Los Angeles gets its water either from the Colorado River or from Northern California. Both places are being destroyed by lack of their own water. It is ridiculous for anyone living near the ocean to import water from anywhere else. We should be independent of a need for water from any other source all along the coast. Of course it should be done in the most environmentally safe way possible and the power should be gotten either from the ocean itself or from solar energy, but the water itself should be from our nearby source. By all means protect the marine life and use government resources instead of those of some big corporation, but begin using this resource.