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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    12 hours 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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      9 hours 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.