California lacks water storage

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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.   #California #CaliforniaWildfires

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00:00Yeah, and we've been hearing a lot from President-elect Donald Trump accusing California officials

00:04of incompetence.

00:05It sounds like you agree with what the President-elect is saying, and I'm just wondering, how widely

00:11shared is that opinion across California?

00:13It's extremely widely shared.

00:15Even people in L.A., the area impacted is L.A., it's a lot of celebrities, it's traditionally

00:19a very affluent, progressive, liberal, Democrat area, and they've now come out in criticism

00:26not only of the governor, but also the mayor there, who was voted in overwhelmingly.

00:30So it's really shifted a lot of people's perspectives, because I don't think people appreciated how

00:36unprepared and how incompetent our leadership really is.

00:40Again, to have a fire and not have water in the fire hydrants, I can't underestimate how

00:45bad that situation is.

00:47I mean, they could have saved a lot of homes and residences if we had basic things like

00:51water.

00:53I always compare, Dubai is a desert.

00:56You have plenty of water.

00:57You turn on your sink, water comes out.

00:59California has not invested in water storage or infrastructure in a long time.

01:03We proposed a desalinization plant off the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

01:07That was rejected by these, what we call extreme environmental policies.

01:12They just don't want to do it, and so this is a big problem.

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