{"id":490380,"date":"2026-10-09T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490380\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:32:12","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-if-southern-california-wants-more-housing-it-also-needs-more-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490380\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: If Southern California wants more housing, it also needs more water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Oct. 9, 2026 5:30 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: One wonders, if water is such a scarce commodity here in Southern California, then why are politicians pushing for higher-density housing and more of it (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2026-10-07\/california-high-water-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCalifornians are paying some of the highest water bills in the country,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 7)? It seems like adding more water resources should be a foundational requirement for building more housing.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps some forward-looking politicians will dump the bullet train to nowhere and instead invest that money in a water pipeline from Northern California to Southern California. Better yet, start looking for water desalination plant sites on the Pacific coast.<\/p>\n<p>William Shaw, La Crescenta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 9, 2026 5:30 AM PT To the editor: One wonders, if water is such a scarce commodity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,7363,2072,191298,27733,1838,63,21039,4757,266,34315,4763,191297,1009,191296,166660],"class_list":["post-490380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-country","tag-editor","tag-high-water-bill","tag-la-crescenta","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-more-housing","tag-more-water","tag-northern-california","tag-pacific-coast","tag-politician","tag-scarce-commodity","tag-southern-california","tag-william-shaw","tag-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}