California

is drought. The canal brings water from the San Joaquin River to farmlands and people and depends on gravity to make the water flow, not pumping. So they're raising it. And as Tigress says.

Given the realities of climate change and less and less water running down from the mountains and dropping from the sky, Gov. Newsome just announced a big plan to "create more supply, capture more water" for California. We used to live in LA County and, suffering serious drought even back then (7 years out of the previous 9 when we departed), every time it rained bemoaned all the rain water that ran straight to the ocean instead of being captured, and of course the same all the time for nonrecycled sewage systems. So the overall plan to "make more water" now includes storing storm water, recycling waste, conserving water better, and desalinization. It's finally gotten bad enough to force the horrendous expenditures needed.