Is it really feasible if a state can only pull it off with large federal funding efforts?

It seems like a problem those in the area will just have to deal with given that they're knowingly walking down that path. If you can't fund desalinization or other options, won't take federal funding, and choose not to region or conserve water then you collectively made your own bed.

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mattmaroon 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't really know what they're talking about, states almost never refuse federal funding for anything.

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_heimdall 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Louisiana refused federal highway funding for long enough that their highway system went to shit. They refused due to a federal mandate that the drinking age be raised to 21.

It isn't common, but states have absolutely forwent federal funding to stand their ground, and in my opinion they should do it more often. Its a huge weakness in our federal system that states are so dependent on federal funding for long lived programs.

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mattmaroon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I did say “almost”. I’m aware it has happened.

But I have property in Arizona and I have a real hard time imagining this state saying no thank you if offered water. It’s sort of a big deal out there these days.

	▲	_heimdall 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Oh I hear you, I have family in Phoenix. My main concern there is that states can and should turn down federal funding if it comes with strings the state isn't interested in accepting. Our federal system becomes fairly useless if states are so dependent on federal funding that we can no longer have 50 different experiments running to try out different legislative approaches.

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lazide 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Like people who build in flood zones and don’t have flood insurance, they do have a nasty tendency to make their problem your problem somehow though.

	▲	_heimdall 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They shouldn't be my problem, and I say that as someone who lived in a flood prone home with no flood insurance as it was ridiculously expensive for pretty terrible coverage. I wouldn't have lived in that house if I was unable or unwilling to deal with the consequences of a flood, no one else should either.