The climate is changing, and Californians are feeling the effects. In our recent Priorities for California’s Water report, we outline what’s been happening and forecast the changes that lie ahead. But walking through the effects of a changing climate on California’s water can quickly become a slog—a litany of depressing facts with no end in sight. … We asked four water experts to conduct a thought experiment: we offered them a series of positive water headlines from the year 2050 and asked them to tell us how we got there.