Good luck on Cali fighting it, if it happens. The other people on the river are sick of giving LA a lot of our water.
I imagine they'd try to get the Federal Government to force the other states to give them the water. Now that would be a fun supreme court case to say the very least.
Any idea on why it hasn't been ruled on?
Honestly SBDD and anyone else in that crowd has more than enough material from the past month or two to paint us as fascists. So why are trying to appease such people?
Depends on the decision. Getting fired over a joke that is only questionably in poor taste? That's bad. A single moment's indisgression with alcohol in a life time of control landing a person in prison? That's sad. A person pushing a wave of social media statements advocating violence in a society where that is not tolerated? That's equal application of the rules.
Plus the extracted salt becomes a form of toxic waste. They ran into this problem in the Gulf states. It turns out, sea life likes their water exactly as salty as the sea is, and dumping purified salt back into it creates a pocket of extra-salty water that is lethal to most of the stuff around there, while dumping it on the ground poisons the land and creates corrosive winds. You could sell it, but at a massive loss.
Because it opens a massive can of worms that will make politics around rivers even more of a mess, and create a whole new political fight, that both sides will try to exploit.
They can just toss it in the Sultan Sea; not like more salt will hurt anything there.
The Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea are also options
Sea salt naturally has iodium while rock salt has iodium artifically added. In the past the areas where they used rock salt had much higher rates of goitre than areas where they used sea salt. But once they started iodine to rock salt and mining of rock salt became cheaper, then the sea salt simply couldn't compete anymore as it was still very manpower intensive.