I was driving 18-wheelers full of Coors up to Portland on a fairly regular basis back during the Financial Crisis when I took a little hiatus from the mortgage business, and the route took me along-side the Columbia River into Portland, where it was dumping about 14,000 cubic feet per second of fresh water into the Pacific.  (Three quarters of all the water that flows into the Pacific from North America comes from the Columbia.)

Now, it seems to me that if people in Colorado were able to figure out how to pump water from the Western slope through the Rockies to the Front Range a very long time ago, those folks on the Left Coast oughta be able to figure out how to get water from the Columbia to California so they wouldn't demand so much of ours.  As it is, they're just pissing it away.