President Donald Trump has raised the need to bring more water in South California in the wake of the catastrophic Los Angeles mountain fire. He is not wrong, but the problem is more serious. LA generally had enough water. It accidentally managed the water supply that I had already had.
Dry and dense, dense population Southern California gets a lot of water from a wet, sparse northern California. This is performed through the Federal and State reservoirs and water bridge systems. It also consumes water from the Colorado River and is freshly watered.
Farmers and local government water users (home and industry) share the same water source. In recent decades, the flow has been limited due to the low rainfall, and the stream is limited to Delta's confectionery, which is the extinction ED species (but easily cultivated) that Trump is talking about. 。
Delta's confectionery symbolizes a deeper problem, which is the growth of the salt content of Sacramento and Sun's Joa Kin Delta. The successive governors have proposed to solve this problem by building a tunnel directly to connect directly from Northern California to Southern California.
There is also the idea of increasing the number or size of California reservoirs. However, nothing happened in 40 years because the population doubled. To ignore this problem, there was enough wet winter between the drought.
Various water authorities in Southern California tried to find other ways to get water. San Diego and Santa Barbara (with the help of Israeli experts) are investing in desalification. LA focuses on waste regeneration. These are expensive but useful methods.
LA fire had two water problems. One is that despite the large rainfall of 2023 and 2024, and the imminent fire season, the 117 million gallon reservoirs on Parisade are empty and down for maintenance. 。 There is no excuse. There was water. We didn't have it There。
The second problem was a shortage of fire plugs due to lack of supply of reservoirs, sudden demand (pressure decreased), power outage, and poor system design. The threat of a wildfire requires more and wider water for emergency use.
In short, Trump needs more water in Southern California, and it is correct that our state government and federal governments could not deal with this issue. It may have helped it. However, the failure of LA's fire was smaller and more local. They were planning, preparation, and leadership failures.
Joel B. Polak is an advanced editor of Brightbart News BREITBART NEWS SUNDAY Sirius XM Patriot is from 7 pm to 10 pm on Sunday (from 4:00 pm to 7 pm). He is the author Agenda: Trump should take his first 100 daysYou can order on Amazon. He is also the author Trump's virtue: Lessons and heritage of President Donald TrumpAudible is now available. He is the winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Association Fellowship. Please follow him on Twitter @joelpollak。
