Over 500 homes burned to the ground near Boulder

[grampahol]

Fire is only getting worse and worse in the west which has several meteorologists opining that it's leading to desertification of vast swaths of the western US in the years to come. That's not going to be sustainable for the populations living in the west. Folks can fight over water, but even that, if the trend doesn't reverse itself isn't sustainable either. You have to have sufficient precipitation, end stop. The only other solution, which seems pretty far fetched would be to pump huge amounts of water from the east where it's in over abundance, but who pays for that? I can just about envision a scenario similar to that of China where the vast majority of the population lives on or near the east coast with much of the west pretty much abandoned over time. It would certainly take a huge amount of government planning to pull it off and with how polarized our government and politics is now I don't see that kind of cooperation happening. For me personally I'm old so I won't have to deal with too much of the fall out from such scenarios, but my kids and grandkids will.. I hope they never have to go to war over water in their own country.. 
It sounds kind of nihilistic, perhaps even fantastical, but if the major cities in the west run dry the huge populations won't sit idle and wait to die of thirst or wait to be burned out in perpetuity..