The California county I live in has the lowest household water usages in the state (so, discounting off grid homes in the desert, possibly the country ? ) In any case, education is constant and ongoing and sometimes fun, here is one event today, in the little soquel water district. This water district is right on the bay and gets its water from wells, which means they cant over-draft those wells without ruining their little aquifer with sea water. Todays educational event has 4 different groups leaving the starting point on bicycles and touring the well sites and such, with ice cream.
http://www.soquelcreekwater.org/events/groundwater-awareness-tourThere is ALOT of awareness in this county, and Monterey count right south of here and also on this Bay(home of the Salinas Valley and most of our exported lettuce and salad greens)
I have never seen anything but drip irrigation on farms in this county, and the household useages are likely getting close to the lower limit. We have to keep up the education as people see a little rain this winter and then "forget" we are in a drought. So, reminders to keep up the good work have to be constant.
The farms in this county and next county down are not served by any state wide pipeline initiatives, and never will be. Our agriculture depends on local resources and has been forced to conserve as their wells are monitored for sea water intrusion and the large rivers that also supply are monitored to keep flowing at least to some degree.
I realy would love to see out of state educational efforts or something to start to disperse the farming back out from here, as much as it is our largest industry. I know you all are gardening at home and putting food by for our potential crash and burn, ( not this year, but possible later ) but look into getting agriculture to start back up in your areas !!
I can tell you this, I have NO INTENTION to vote YES on taxing myself and my neighbors even more to build yet more pipelines or desalination to support EXPORTING PRODUCE -- I do not understand why I and my neighbors should be subsidizing nuts, grapes, berry, avacado etc... prices and availability to the rest of the nation. So, try to get your local areas to think about that.
Most of the geographical area of California thinks the same as me on this. Most of the geographical areas of California are on their own small water districts and pay taxes for large projects that not only do not benefit them but often take their water.
However, it is likely that the Big Money donated by Corporate farms in Central and southern Valleys and the HUGE mass of population of the state that lives in the greater LA basin will out vote us yet again and the can will get kicked down the road a little further. And, so, the great central Valley will continue to SINK (yes, land has dropped many FEET as water is pumped from them in this drought) and the environmental degradation, land getting ruined, aquifers drying up, rivers taken -- and you will get your nuts and produce a few more yers