Thanks to climate change, California’s fires will only continue to get worse in the coming years, according to California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment, released Monday by the Golden State governor’s office.
California wildfires, including the Mendocino Complex Fire and Carr Fire, have broken records in 2018.
California’s weather woes will not be limited to wildfire destruction.
Exacerbated conditions already starting to show up across the state, such as sea level rise eroding beaches and impacting public shoreline access, as well as critical water shortages and major droughts plaguing Central Valley farms, will worsen as global warming becomes more severe.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, a number of trends may worsen significantly by the year 2100.
Average daily temperates are projected to rise as much as 5.6 to 8.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
And by 2050, drinking water supplied by mountain ice pack is anticipated to decrease by two-thirds.
The Trump administration has been criticized for environmental and emissions policy deregulation that worries scientists already observing the impacts of climate change on weather patterns and natural disasters like mega-fires and years-long droughts.
California governor Jerry Brown took direct aim at President Trump in his prepared statements about the report via Twitter.
“In California, facts and science still matter,” Brown wrote.

LONDON – Nearly half the world’s schools lack clean drinking water, toilets and hand-washing facilities, putting millions of children at risk of disease, experts warned Monday.
Almost 900 million children have to contend with a lack of basic hygiene facilities during their education, putting their health at risk and meaning some have to miss school.
“You can’t have a quality learning environment without these basics,” said Dr. Rick Johnston of the World Health Organization, a lead researcher on the project.
“Children may not come to school at all if there’s no toilets.
… Then, when they are at school, they are not going to at their very best if they not able to use a decent toilet or if they are not properly hydrated.” World leaders have signed up to global pledges to provide safe water and hygiene facilities for all and ensure every child gets a comprehensive education by 2030 under the U.N.’s sustainable development goals.
It found nearly a third of primary and secondary schools lacked a safe and reliable drinking water supply, affecting nearly 570 million children.
Just over a third of schools lacked adequate toilet facilities, affecting more than 620 million children.
Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Southeast Asia had some of the worst facilities.
“It’s deeply shocking,” Tim Wainwright, the chief executive of charity WaterAid, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
More than a third of girls in South Asia miss school during their periods, often because they lack access to toilets or pads, according to a WaterAid and UNICEF study earlier this year.

Thanks to a donation by the Ministry of Economy, MoE, local populations in Albania, Kyrgyzstan and India have gained access to clean and safe drinking water.
ABU DHABI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM – 27th Aug, 2018) Thanks to a donation by the Ministry of Economy, MoE, local populations in Albania, Kyrgyzstan and India have gained access to clean and safe drinking water.
Employees at the ministry donated funds to the Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, which used to implement water projects in these countries.
Abdullah Al Saleh, Under-Secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Trade, said the ERC had dug four wells two in India, one each in Albania and Kyrgyzstan to provide clean and safe drinking water to local populations there.
He stated that the humanitarian gesture reflected the active contribution of the ministry’s employees to efforts aimed at promoting the values of charitable work and corporate social responsibility.
The project, he indicated, was launched last year in celebration of the ”Year of Giving."
He added that helping local populations in these countries to have access to clean water supports the sustainable development goals.
”The initiative underscores the continuation of the legacy of the late Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, of digging water wells in as many countries as possible to benefit thousands of people,” he further added.

Nearly half the world’s schools lack clean drinking water, toilets and handwashing facilities, putting millions of children at risk of disease, experts warned on Monday.
Almost 900 million children have to contend with a lack of basic hygiene facilities during their education, putting their health at risk and meaning some have to miss school.
“You can’t have a quality learning environment without these basics,” said Dr Rick Johnston of the World Health Organization, a lead researcher on the project.
“Children may not come to school at all if there’s no toilets … Then, when they are at school, they are not going to at their very best if they not able to use a decent toilet or if they are not properly hydrated.” World leaders have signed up to global pledges to provide safe water and hygiene facilities for all and ensure every child gets a comprehensive education by 2030 under the UN’s sustainable development goals.
It found nearly a third of primary and secondary schools lacked a safe and reliable drinking water supply, affecting nearly 570 million children.
Nearly 20 per cent of schools had no safe drinking water at all.
Just over a third of schools lacked adequate toilet facilities, affecting more than 620 million children.
Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Southeast Asia had some of the worst facilities.
“It’s deeply shocking,” Tim Wainwright, the chief executive of charity WaterAid, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
More than a third of girls in South Asia miss school during their periods, often because they lack access to toilets or pads, according to a WaterAid and UNICEF study earlier this year.

Legislators have just five days to help an estimated 1 million Californians access safe and affordable drinking water from their faucets.
Ceres and many of our company partners have strongly supported the creation of a Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in California.
Some employees, some customers and some of their supply-chain farmers may very well reside in the communities facing clean water shortages.
Those communities number more than 300, according to the State Water Resources Control Board, and as many as 360,000 to 1 million people are affected.
But we need our policymakers to help create a pathway for safe drinking water for all.
When Ceres and a dozen company partners went to Sacramento last week to talk with legislators about the importance of legislation ensuring safe and affordable drinking water for all, stories from other advocates visiting Sacramento the same day and several legislative offices we met with furthered our resolve to make sure SB 844 and SB 845 are adopted.
Those stories drove home for us just how very important access to clean, safe drinking water is.
That’s why the legislative effort to make sure clean drinking water is available to all through the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund is so important to us.
So I was very pleased last week when state legislators revived Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund legislation with a compromise that would still provide the funds needed to ensure safe drinking water supplies for all – it asks residential water users to pay voluntarily 95 cents a month.
The proposed legislation in SB 844 and SB 845 is supported by a historic coalition of agricultural, environmental justice and business interests, among others.

The tiny island of Sandhamn lies around 30 miles east of mainland Sweden in the Baltic Sea, at the edge of the Stockholm Archipelago.
And that influx puts an unbearable strain on the island’s water systems.
Sandhamn’s natural aquifer reserves can only handle the basics: Delivering water to year-round residents and the island’s restaurants and hotels.
Bluewater develops proprietary water-purification systems that use a process of reverse osmosis, a relatively common water purification tactic that uses a membrane to remove ions, molecules, and large pollution particles from water.
They’ve installed four of their purifiers along the Sandhamn coast, where they extract water from the Baltic Sea, run it through the network of filters, and produce up to 30,000 liters of drinking water per day for newly arrived tourists.
Each Bluewater purifier links up to a network of three cisterns from which purified water is distributed to a number of small hydration stations along the Sandhamn marina.
Now that it’s been thoroughly vetted and certified, this “water microgrid” system, as Bluewater CEO Anders Jacobson calls it, is proving necessary for the small island of Sandhamn, as Sweden this year has faced record temperatures and drought-like conditions that have exacerbated the need for quality water throughout the country’s islands.
“But the solution for many consumers today is they go out and buy bottled water instead.” That, he says, perpetuates the use of plastics, which often end up in landfill or in bodies of water, where they further contribute to contamination.
“Our technology removes lead, so we were able to provide a solution that took away what was killing people in Flint in the municipal water supply,” Jacobson says.
We did that with the Baltic Sea, where we took water that was otherwise not possible to drink and turned it into drinkable water; we did the same in Cape Town, were we purified well-water.” Finding these other solutions that exist in nature but have not been able to be tapped for human consumption, Jacobson says, will be necessary to ensure that single-use plastic water bottles do not become the only solution for water-stressed communities.

To find out more, Countryliving.com/uk spoke to Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud to discuss the biggest changes you can make to your home to make it more eco-friendly, sustainable and efficient.
"You do more for the environment by super-insulating a building.
The embodied energy of a building is a very small part of the environmental impact compared to the in-use energy costs over say 50 to 100 years.
Kevin emphasises the importance of remembering to do the small things, rather than just the big, fundamental changes to your home.
The event will offer visitors many interesting seminars on environmental topics.
"There is a big water saving and non-plastic theme this year at the show.
I’ll also be talking about another comparative area – clean drinking water," says Kevin.
"Friends of the Earth are selling their aluminium water bottles throughout the show, but we’ve also got ‘Join the Pipe’, an initiative to promote clean drinking water across the world.
"As part of that I’m giving the talk about the history of the toilet, all about sanitation.
And there is a very simple and fundamental fact that unless a home has a functioning toilet and clean drinking water, human beings can’t use it.

SMART METER: Dr Helen Edmonds holds one of the smart meters, which will be installed through Penneshaw in the coming months.
Photo: SA Water.
Penneshaw residents might have noticed the presence of around 300 SA Water smart meters installed around the town, appearing in businesses and residences to help them better manage their water use and water bills.
“A data logger to be attached or built into each customers water meter will send water use information to their individual portal every 60 minutes, which can be viewed online at any time,” Dr Edmonds said.
“Once the portals are activated, there will also be an option for people to receive SMS or email notifications on their water use trends or inconsistencies, on either a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
“This interconnected system will help customers identify potential leaks or other faults in their plumbing, which may indicate periods or spikes of unexplained high water use.
It is expected that the instillation process of the smart meters is expected to be done by late September and completed by KI-based plumbers engaged through Fleurieu Civil, with all equipment, including the customer portals, to be operational from October.
Approximately 300 SA Water customers on the eastern end of Kangaroo Island receive their water from the Penneshaw Desalination Plant, which was originally built in 1999 and upgraded last year.
Penneshaw is capable of producing up to 120 million litres a year, and readily meets the area’s current average annual demand of 69 million litres.
It takes Penneshaw around two hours to turn sea water into fresh water for drinking, before it’s distributed through around 15 kilometres of pipes.

All day they’ve faced the barren waste without a taste of water, cool, clear water.
In this wide and wonderful world 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water.
If you are reading this piece of modern literature you have a number of options for slaking your personal burning thirst.
One thing each drink has in common with all the others: clean, safe water is the main ingredient.
We can give a sigh of relief as we sip a cool, safe drink and consider our good fortune.
While you are considering the various answers to the questions posed, why not simply run a glass of clean clear from your kitchen tap (never mind the bottled), sit back, and consider what it takes to keep you in clean, fresh, drinking water, by far the cheapest and most refreshing libation available in our home town and for which you would do well to give thanks.
And to whom should you give thanks?
You do right to be proud of your Administration and Staff who planned and supervised the assembly of this array of pipes, elbows, valves, and too much more to describe here.
The Chetwynd contribution to the project was taken from Peace River Agreement funds so no tax implications.
These are the projects that can come together when we work together in harmony for the good of all.

There were more than 2000 persons in as many as 19 camps in the panchayat and 700 families were staying in the camps.
Thrissur: Several residents of Karalam panchayat near Irinjalakuda near here who returned to the homes on the Thiruvonam Day after the floods are struggling to get access to clean drinking water.
Though their wells were chlorinated and houses cleaned, the foul smell that came with the mud and silt that filled their premises and entered the well is still prevailing in the homes, they say.
"The well was cleaned and chlorinated but still the bizarre smell of the well water which was earlier used for drinking is still there.
It seems water that got mixed with chemicals has come to the area during the heavy floods and due to this bad smell still prevailing in the area, we are not able to sleep properly," Mahesh Pazhambilly a resident of 10th ward at Thanissery in Karalam panchayat said.
There were more than 2000 persons in as many as 19 camps in the panchayat and 700 families were staying in the camps.
Except those whose houses were destroyed completely, all other have returned to their homes.
Mahesh said that his family was struggling to get potable water and he could not file a proper complaint to either the ward member or the civic body officials due to Onam holidays.