About 10% of the water shuttled through the LA Aqueduct gets lost to evaporation. To stop it, LA DWP wants to cover some of those miles of water with solar panels. Desalination of ocean water, long-considered too energy-inefficient and environmentally destructive, is increasingly finding its way into California’s water future. But is it a wave that’s going to fizzle out? The City of Laguna Beach is poised to take control of several Orange County beaches. What will this mean for beachgoers?