Gov. Brown: ‘We’re Getting Ready For The Worst’ California Fire Season

[Journeyman]

7. And this from the man who declared DROUGHT OVER after one marginally wet winter in 2011. . .

I've liked most everything Gov. Brown has done in all his many years in office, but that decision was unconscionable. It took years of conservation and education efforts and, essentially, flushed it all away. Far better to have left the early declaration in force, and husbanded what little reserves we had, than to release the citizens from their perceived obligation to conserve.

Because it would be better for all if we recognized an unmistakable reality: California entered a period of permanent drought over 30 years ago. There are just too many people chasing too little water over too large an area. Too many too's.