ramage wrote: " could you please show me the costs to the average American?"
"I read the articles. Now you read them for the answers you seek."
The answer to Rick's question are not to be found in the articles cited. There is no discussion of costs to the populace.
Which is why I wrote:
I'm sure that if you want answers to your request for an "actual plan with real world numbers," you could, as Fred and others say, "google it," but I've started your search with the links above.
If this drought goes on for fifty years, will the West just learn to conserve to the max? Stop using above ground reservoirs to prevent loss of water? Or will the area slowly depopulate? Moving back to the Midwest and South?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.