People aren't paying attention because the good times are rolling, but eventually they will notice.
Politicians ignore the issue.
In the current election, as in previous ones, they chatter about more jobs, faster growth and bigger highways as though California were still in the 1950s, with a comfy population of 12 million, water to spare and highways as rare as traffic jams. The development of California's open spaces goes on unabated. The San Diego region has new developments springing up along its highways like mushrooms, from Temecula to the Mexican border. Santa Clara County, home to Silicon Valley, is so built out people are commuting from the San Joaquin Valley, hours away. Los Angeles County has just approved its largest development ever, in the hills of Santa Clarita, near Ventura County, which isn't happy about it.