Streamer posted: " It’s important to make a distinction that wildfires can largely be contained/controlled with preventative measures . . ."

You're out of your mind if you believe that. If such containment or control were even close to true, the natural resource agencies would have solved the problem years ago. The fuel supply for wildfires is immense and in most cases self replenishes. The collective resources of all the natural resource agencies in the country is nowhere close to enough to effect that scale of containment. I don't know what drugs you're using, but you are not even close to being grounded in reality. Additionally you apparently don't understand what a shill is either. A shill is one who defends or promotes a product or person beyond the merit of said product or person, kinda' like you supporting Trump, whose negative attributes outnumber any positive ones (if there are any) by an order of magnitude or more.

FP,

At least you're being honest with the source of your information, unreliable as it is.

1. The Santa Ynez reservoir is empty because it's down for maintenance. Part of the cover was damaged and is scheduled for repair. So why does it need a cover, you may ask. Because it's LA drinking water with air pollution and birds crap in it and stupid people would swim in it or pollute it.

2. I don't know. I saw the architect's rendering of the proposed mega reservoir a couple years or so ago. I haven't seen anything since. It's a major project and in order to be feasible, there has to be water to fill it. I believe it was intended to store some of CA's share of Colorado River water. If you've been following that, there is presently a dispute among the 7-state Colorado River Compact because the individual state shares add up to more water than the Colorado River produces. The compact dates to a time where the period of record for water supply was weighted to more wet years than dry years. Now the reality of there being less water than originally estimated has come home to roost. The Glen Canyon reservoir is trending toward the elevation where it will no longer be possible to deliver water to the dam's turbines that produce electricity. I don't know, but it could be that the feasibility of that proposed new reservoir is in question. BTW, I think the Willow Springs project is a different one, and if so, I'm not familiar with it.

You're also wrong about Democrats being terrible at governing; rather both Republicans and Democrats are terrible at governing. It's just that Republicans are more terrible at it than Democrats. It's a lesser evil sort of thing. BTW, politicians are notoriously bad at this stuff because they don't understand economics, engineering, or how the natural world functions. For starters, and probably a lot more.