> Today we appear to have forgotten all this Not sure if that's the right wording. I live in CA too and the wave of remediations to your "fire event acceptance

> Today we appear to have forgotten all this Not sure if that's the right wording. I live in CA too and the wave of remediations to your "fire event acceptance" and coastal water supplies has been pretty dramatic. I regularly see more activity to clear land around natural burn territory while out hiking, in addition to laser-scanning vegetation patrol helicopters that map down to individual leaves nearing PG&E lines. Citizens here also have better access to early warnings and fire monitoring tech. Coastal cities are implementing desalination plants with $80M+ of state DWR grants for this awarded so far. This includes brackish groundwater treatment. Torrance, Santa Barbara [1], and Catalina island now have new desalination infra up and running and contributing millions of gallons a day to local water supplies. Water resources are managed as part of a diversified portfolio-style contingency strategy. There's also a new interagency group / process to make the planning and setup more efficient than it would be otherwise. Even up here in rural NorCal we have received millions in state grant money for coastal works like this. 1. https://santabarbaraca.gov/government/departments/public-works/water-resources/water-system/water-sources/desalination https://santabarbaraca.gov/government/departments/public-wor...