The Los Angeles fires cast California’s water scarcity into stark view. It’s going to get worse.
  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 days ago

    “Our traditional urban water infrastructure and supply was just largely not meant to fight fires like this,” Kearns said. “It was designed to put out a fire at a single house or a few structures, not thousands of houses during really high winds.”

    • A_A@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Thanks, this is a critically important point, which obviously applies also to any cities throughout the world. So, climate change is about to bring large waves of destruction in coming decades.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I would use eminent domain to reclaim land for public beaches but also for obvious water desalination plants and the large piping works that could now be done in the area. In exchange, the old residents get land elsewhere.