Thomas McClintock actually said...

Should the Federal Government not take care of the land it already holds before acquiring still more lands?

But because we don't have the capacity to store excess water from wet years, we approach catastrophic shortages during the dry ones.

So, put simply, surface water storage gives us nearly four times as much water for the dollar as desalination.

California voters approved a purported water bond in 2014 with the promise it would be used for water storage.