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While California Dries Out and Burns, Bureaucrats Hype Diversity

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While California Dries Out and Burns, Bureaucrats Hype Diversity
Firefighters work to extinguish the Bond Fire burning in Silverado Canyon, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Edward Ring
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A few months ago, a friend of mine in the water business participated in a lunchtime seminar in Sacramento on the topic of how to increase diversity in the water industry. As a civil engineer, he thought the discussion would focus on how to develop diverse sources of water in a drought stricken state. Instead, as he later related to me with refreshing clarity, “the whole event was about how to get rid of white men.”

Edward Ring
Edward Ring
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Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: “Fixing California: Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism” (2021) and “The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California” (2022).
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