@Binnie - The drought is very severe, but Gov. Jerry Brown is more interested in his multi-billion dollar boondoggle high speed train to nowhere than using some of that money to go toward desalinization plants. As for OC, the demographics have really changed. It's about 40% non-Latino white, about 35% Latino, and I'd say about 20% Asian/Pacific Islander, leaving a small amount of blacks/African Americans and Native Americans.