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California lacks water storage
AlArabiya English
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1/15/2025
The state of California lacks water as the government failed to properly invest in water storage, which now in turn led to a lack of water to put out fires, California State Legislature Assembly Member Bill Essayli says.
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Yeah, and we've been hearing a lot from President-elect Donald Trump accusing California officials
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of incompetence.
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It sounds like you agree with what the President-elect is saying, and I'm just wondering, how widely
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shared is that opinion across California?
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It's extremely widely shared.
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Even people in L.A., the area impacted is L.A., it's a lot of celebrities, it's traditionally
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a very affluent, progressive, liberal, Democrat area, and they've now come out in criticism
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not only of the governor, but also the mayor there, who was voted in overwhelmingly.
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So it's really shifted a lot of people's perspectives, because I don't think people appreciated how
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unprepared and how incompetent our leadership really is.
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Again, to have a fire and not have water in the fire hydrants, I can't underestimate how
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bad that situation is.
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I mean, they could have saved a lot of homes and residences if we had basic things like
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water.
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I always compare, Dubai is a desert.
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You have plenty of water.
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You turn on your sink, water comes out.
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California has not invested in water storage or infrastructure in a long time.
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We proposed a desalinization plant off the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
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That was rejected by these, what we call extreme environmental policies.
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They just don't want to do it, and so this is a big problem.
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