Most residents tend to forget that Los Angeles is a desert. I was born in Long Beach and lived in L.A. until 1990 when I left on my father's advice. 
Why should you care?
Because my father designed many of the water pipelines which supply most of L.A.'s water. He was an architect at Metropolitan Water District (MWD) for thirty years, retired to Idaho in 1989 and told me,
"You don't want to stay in L.A. Water will always be a problem."
The history of MWD and Department of Water Resources is a forty-year struggle to maintain an adequate water supply, often barely one step ahead of population growth.
My dad made the call too early but eventually he was right. You can choose lies which temporarily feel good or a disturbing truth which might skirt disaster. Fragile and complex environments fail easier from magical (DEI) thinking, today L.A. is a textbook example.
Congratulations on replacing the evil Fire Department "patriarchy", girls!
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