Your zealousness takes you off the rails. First, LA is an urban environment so in this case you are talking apples to oranges. You have a point when it comes to the area in the central and northern parts of the state that are not urban.
As for water diversion.. that is irrelevant. Their infrastructure was not ready. The reservoirs in their watersheds were doing fine as compared to years past. Had they been ready.. they could have had the necessary 12 to 13 million gallons ready.
Knowing their names is not evidence of job performance. I know that you this
Now show me some metrics of those that came before them and metrics of the actual hires. If I want to tell you about a pro athlete.. I use metrics such as points scored, TD Scored, goals scored.. can you do this?