robber ray for us in charleston, west virginia robert, appreciate it. thank you. ian tick measures to deal with a draught that gets worse by the day. but as jennifer london reports from marina del ray there may be some hopes for easing the state's water whoas. >> reporter: when the state's governor did he charge declarede drought emergency, he says it's skier justice and unprecedented. while the state doesn't have enough rain water it has plenty of this, sea water and harnessing the ocean to help solve some of california's water woes, it's closer than you think. in carlsbad, california, hope for a fresh watery future lies in the construction of the largest desal nation plant in the western hemisphere, when it's completed in 2016, the plant will provide 300,000 san diego peter says it's time to dip our straw in to the pacific ocean. >> there is a discorrect between sly and demands. desalination has become completely affordable. >> reporter: desalination a plant was built in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the state experienced another time of severe drought but the