💧 Due to this manmade drought, my water bills are $1000 despite my grass being brown & my showers being a few minutes long. California’s about to have historic reigns due to an unprecedented El Niño, but because @GavinNewsom failed to build reservoirs/dams, it’ll go into ocean! We are about to squander a once, in a lifetime opportunity to capture trillions of gallons of clean, absolutely free, drinking water. Instead, we will have to continue doing what @santamonicacity does during this “drought” - to spend hundreds of millions of dollars squeezing drinking water out of sewage! This crime against the people eclipses what they have done with homelessness, crime, and taxes in my opinion. Having water is the most basic need for any human, heck, any organism. Whether you’re a one cell amoeba or a person, you still need water as your most fundamental source of life. It is abundant, it comes from the sky, but you have to capture it to use it. And despite taxing the hell out of us for the purpose of building water retention systems, they have done no such thing. And the reservoirs we do have lay there empty because of incompetence.