California's Water Problem

Over the last 30-40 years the lobbiest of groups like the Sierra Club, Green Peace, et al, have often dictated policy for CA rather than good science.  Pete Wilson was the last one to try to get a water storage dam built, but it was shut down by thse groups.  Newsom has been removing hydro dams along the Klamath, affecting electricity as well as water.  So, as CA pop. has increased by 100%, their water storage and electricity generation has been cut from what it was 30 years ago.  These policies are also part of the reason for the horrible fires (we've already had two - 100k & 200K acres) near us and it's not even august.  "Natural" forests had fires all the time, but it kept low growing fuel down.  We started fight fires in the early 20th century, but selective logging that was the norm by the '60s and '70s here, served as an artificial "fire" thinning heavy fuel loads.  The '90s brought the sutting down of logging and the USFS blocking and destorying many access roads logging had created.  Now, fuel loads are artificially high, forrests are so thick they're unhealthy, combine this with drought and you have catastrophic fires.  CA, is a lesson about what NOT to do, when ideological politics overides thoughtful consideration of facts and science.