Water and Population

Re “2 Simple, Crucial Water Reforms,� editorial, April 24: You succinctly explain the problem. We Californians don’t have enough water to meet everyone’s demands; it’ll only get worse as our population soars; it’ll get even worse when the next multiyear drought hits.

However, instead of just an almost oxymoronic search for “enough� water for the next development, maybe we should suggest a reduction or leveling off of demand for water, via a tempering of the growth in our population, via a tempering in the gross flow of immigrants entering our nation and many, ergo, our state, every year. Let’s put everything on the table over an issue of this importance.

HARVEY PEARSON

Los Angeles