A lot of people have a lot of thoughts about California and water right now. Want to read the signature book on the subject? I recommend The Dreamt Land, by @Arax_Mark. Arax takes you back to the gold rush time to explain how the state's whacky and byzantine water politics came to be, and then marshals you through to the Wonderful™️ era of the Resnicks, what with their water-greedy almonds, pistachios and pomegranates. Does their control of water in the central valley farmland have anything to do with fighting fires in the Pacific Palisades? I really don't know. Not according to Forbes.