The front page of Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times had a truly dispiriting message, namely that just a couple years after a record drought, California has done nothing to store water during a rare rainy winter. In fact, much of the precious water is being dumped into the ocean with little attempt to capture it.

A headline from 2017 read California’s Five-Year Drought Was Worst in Nearly 450 Years for Some Areas, Records Show. But memories are short in certain quarters.

The state is totally run by Democrats, who often claim that they are environmentalists, but when it comes to important policies like population growth and water conservation, they do nothing.

Below, the drought-stricken Lake Oroville (which is also a reservoir) was nearly empty in September 2014.

Meanwhile, drought-prone California remains hugely overpopulated at nearly 40 million residents, 27 percent of whom are foreign born.