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Seeing homes in Malibu and Pacific Palisades burn to the ground while firefighting equipment runs dry is bad enough, but knowing the water shortages caused by poor management decisions makes the horrors even worse.
Water is everywhere in California. The Golden State borders the Pacific Ocean, which contains many gallons of desalinated water to fill dams and feed fire hydrants.
But California’s regulation discourages desalination plants that would ensure more water, and no reservoirs have been built with the $2.7 billion approved in 2014.
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Environmentalists choose to blame climate change for wildfires, just like the ancient Greeks blamed their gods when things went wrong. It goes beyond the money rather than looking in the mirror.
Water is dropped by helicopter on the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP)
Fire acres burned in the United States from 1916 to the mid-1940s, when CO2 emissions were low, were as high as levels in the first decade of the 2000s.
In California, politicians are promoting an agenda to eliminate water, energy and minerals, increasing human suffering. The question is how do they maintain power without people voting them out of office.
This is especially true when considering the disaster of fire, which can be prevented by water.
Government agencies that must approve desalination projects include the State Water Resources Control Board, the California Coastal Commission, the California State Lands Commission, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the National Marine Fisheries Service’s West Coast Region and six regional water quality control boards. This system is designed to slow down progress.
In addition, approval depends on national consultation, environmental justice, consideration of marine life and energy efficiency, among other factors.
California awarded $120 million for desalination projects, compared to $1.4 billion for charging stations and $500 million for electric school buses. The California Air Resources Board has the authority to fast-track clean air regulations.
Surely, if California can afford billions of dollars in electric vehicles, the state can afford to fill water reservoirs — especially since wildfires are more damaging to the air than gasoline-powered cars?
Countries with a lower GDP than California have no problem building desalination plants. Such plants produce more than 7 million cubic meters per day in the United Arab Emirates, about 40 percent of the country’s drinking water. Kuwait and Oman use desalination for about 90% of their drinking water, while Saudi Arabia’s share of desalinated water is 70%.
Many burned vehicles from the Eaton fire at Brake Masters in Altadena. (Fox News Digital/Ashley Carnahan)
Bahrain recently completed its second desalination plant, with new energy-saving reverse osmosis technology from Veolia Water Technologies, headquartered in France. The plant produces 227,000 cubic meters per day and started operating after 22 months.
The problem is that California’s government has created a water shortage, just as it has created an energy shortage and a shortage of essential minerals.
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California needs 60% of its energy to be created from renewables by 2030, so it has a shortage of energy at high prices. The legislature unanimously passed the Seabed Mining Ban Act of 2022, which bans the mining of sensitive coastal minerals, leaving the United States at the mercy of China.
The environmental agenda, which focuses on scarcity rather than abundance, empowers governments to distribute those limited resources. In times of scarcity, people depend on the government rather than their own actions.
Water is everywhere in California. The Golden State borders the Pacific Ocean, which contains many gallons of desalinated water to fill reservoirs and feed fire hydrants.
One of the two houses on his street that survived the 2018 Wolsey Fire in Malibu was owned by Robert Kerbeck, author of “Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind LA’s Most Devastating Wildfire,” who learned beforehand how to spray his home with fire retardant. and who cut the brush that could feed the flames.
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As Kerbeck recently wrote, “We need more water to fight fires, more reservoirs, and more firefighters with the right kind of equipment to fight these big wind-driven flames.”
California’s policies are often based on a myth within a mystery, explaining Churchill about the Soviet Union. Californians who have promoted the energy, water, and mineral scarcity agenda for environmental reasons should think again. Nature should not be worshiped at such cost to people.
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