that is unforgivably incompetent... or potentially strategic and diabolical. the state should be sued. Is it the Dept of Water and Power who was responsible for the reservoir?
Stewart and Lynda Resnick's Roll Global (since renamed to The Wonderful Company) acquired Fiji Water from Gilmour in 2004 for a reported US$50 million.
Resnick is the wealthiest farmer in the United States, with a net worth exceeding nine billion dollars according to a 2020 article in Forbes magazine, and owns a majority stake in the Kern Water Bank, one of California's largest underground water storage facilities, which is capable of storing 500 billion gallons.
The Kern Water Bank, though privately owned, profits from water sales through publicly funded water transportation systems. The acquisition, continuing private ownership, and water sales profit from this taxpayer-developed resource infrastructure, while California suffers under drought, is controversial.
Growing water-intensive nut tree crops in the Central Valley—a single almond can require up to 1.1 US gallons of water—has drawn criticism during California's ongoing drought. According to Forbes magazine, the Wonderful Company uses "at least 120 billion gallons a year, two-thirds on nuts, enough to supply San Francisco's 852,000 residents for a decade."
These are the 2 rich jewish assholes that control the majority of the water in California.
A huge portion of this problem is the direct result of over regulation by the 3 letter agencies. Notice Marty Adams mentioned the tear in the cover that needed repair and that if they left it in service they would have water quality problems. They wouldn’t. They would be in violation of State and Federal rules that require water reservoirs to be covered or the water had to go through microfiltration first before it went to customers.
The regulations is why the reservoir was out of service.
That reservoir had been in service for over 60 years without anyone getting sick from the water.
The LADWP has had to take large reservoirs out of service because of the stupid regulations and they were all replaced with small puddles, at billions of dollars of cost. What was once a very resilient system is now a system with very little redundancy and under threat from natural disasters. Just wait until an earthquake
hits and takes out the aqueduct that crosses the San Andreas fault and eliminates the main water feed to the City. The LADWP used to have 90 day’s supply of water in the City storage. Now they have at most 2 weeks.
Why?! Because State and Federal regulators dictate how a water system shall be run, not the people who know best.
They paper cut away safety.... until a collapse happens.
This happens for every big disaster, someone somewhere took a short cut, assuming others do not. Soon there is no support to the system.
Watch the water
Picture of empty reservoir: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline
117M gallons of water gone before the fire.
Below that empty reservoir is $150 Billion worth of real estate. Someone is going to get the gas chamber for this level of incompetence.
Isn't LA already one?? Everything gets trapped by mountains
Oops, forgot to put the plug in...
that is unforgivably incompetent... or potentially strategic and diabolical. the state should be sued. Is it the Dept of Water and Power who was responsible for the reservoir?
The same people that pretty much own the entire California Water System, Fuji Water.
*Fiji
Stewart and Lynda Resnick's Roll Global (since renamed to The Wonderful Company) acquired Fiji Water from Gilmour in 2004 for a reported US$50 million.
Resnick is the wealthiest farmer in the United States, with a net worth exceeding nine billion dollars according to a 2020 article in Forbes magazine, and owns a majority stake in the Kern Water Bank, one of California's largest underground water storage facilities, which is capable of storing 500 billion gallons.
The Kern Water Bank, though privately owned, profits from water sales through publicly funded water transportation systems. The acquisition, continuing private ownership, and water sales profit from this taxpayer-developed resource infrastructure, while California suffers under drought, is controversial.
Growing water-intensive nut tree crops in the Central Valley—a single almond can require up to 1.1 US gallons of water—has drawn criticism during California's ongoing drought. According to Forbes magazine, the Wonderful Company uses "at least 120 billion gallons a year, two-thirds on nuts, enough to supply San Francisco's 852,000 residents for a decade."
These are the 2 rich jewish assholes that control the majority of the water in California.
I wonder if any stars will sue the state for liability.
A huge portion of this problem is the direct result of over regulation by the 3 letter agencies. Notice Marty Adams mentioned the tear in the cover that needed repair and that if they left it in service they would have water quality problems. They wouldn’t. They would be in violation of State and Federal rules that require water reservoirs to be covered or the water had to go through microfiltration first before it went to customers.
The regulations is why the reservoir was out of service. That reservoir had been in service for over 60 years without anyone getting sick from the water.
The LADWP has had to take large reservoirs out of service because of the stupid regulations and they were all replaced with small puddles, at billions of dollars of cost. What was once a very resilient system is now a system with very little redundancy and under threat from natural disasters. Just wait until an earthquake hits and takes out the aqueduct that crosses the San Andreas fault and eliminates the main water feed to the City. The LADWP used to have 90 day’s supply of water in the City storage. Now they have at most 2 weeks.
Why?! Because State and Federal regulators dictate how a water system shall be run, not the people who know best.