In my many years on the Earth I have learned one lesson that has served me well.
Government management and intervention in complex issues only insures that the event will reach epic disaster scale before it gets better or turns around.
In a sane world DWR would be, at this point, slowly barbequed by the Kalifornia Legislature. The misfeasance is breathtaking.
Sums it up nicely.
Bingo. If big government bureaucracies waste money and fail to accomplish the objective, it’s an opportunity to ask for more money next year. In government, waste and failure are the road to growth and success.