March 19, 2025
Industry Insight Presentation

Water Supply and Wildfires
Emerging Lessons and
Implications from Los Angeles

Presented by:

Greg Pierce

Co-Executive Director,
The Luskin Center for Innovation
and
Director,
UCLA Water Resources Group

Dave & Busters

Irvine Spectrum

661 Spectrum Center Drive
Sign-In: 11:30 am
Lunch at Noon
Presentation: 12:30 pm

Hosted by OCWA

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About Our Presentation

The multiple wildfires that burned more than 50,000 acres in Los Angeles in January 2025 brought devastating impacts — claiming dozens of lives, destroying over 16,000 structures, and displacing thousands of families.

Though fire has always been part of the region’s ecology, the magnitude of these fires reveals how fire risk supercharged by climate whiplash threatens urban and suburban neighborhoods in increasingly destructive ways. The fires also highlighted the role of urban water systems in wildfire response, the (potential) mismatch between system design and intensifying fires in urbanized areas, and how these issues are both (mis)understood and politicized in the public sphere. The presentation will also focus on ways forward for resilience and public understanding of these issues.

Join us for a presentation and discussion about these and related topics. You won’t want to miss this timely presentation. Make your reservations today! 

OCWA Members with Reservations:  $30.00

Non-Members with Reservations:  $45.00

OCWA Members without Reservations:  $45.00 (at the door)

Non-Members without Reservations:  $45.00 (at the door)

Reservations must be made by end-of-day, Tuesday, March 18,
to qualify for the Reservation Rate.
Cancellations received AFTER this date CANNOT be refunded.

About Our Speaker

Greg Pierce

Co-Executive Director, The Luskin Center for Innovation and Director, UCLA Water Resources Group

Greg Pierce is the research and co-executive director of the Luskin Center for Innovation and the director of the Human Right to Water Solutions Lab. He is also the director of the UCLA Water Resources Group within the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and serves as an associate professor in the Department of Urban Planning. His primary focus is on water policy and water insecurity, but he also examines solutions to cross-cutting green infrastructure and climate resilience insecurities. Greg is an author or co-author of 50+ peer-reviewed articles, and regularly speaks to the media on related issues.