text: Yes California has a water shortage, but the bottling plants don't. The International Bottled Water Association says that about 3.1 billion gallons of water are bottled in California annually. Nestle, for example, uses 725 million gallons of water annually at its California bottling plants. Where will the water enter California? Pipeline over land? How long a pipeline? "(The system) uses gravity and floatation to create energy to generate electricity to purify water to drinking water standards," rather vague. Enough energy to pump it over mountains? Because there are mountains under the ocean. This thing will require tons of public money.