California’s megadrought seems as endless as the Mojave Desert. Between killer heat and growing wildfires, the state experiences some of the harshest effects of climate change. Although California is leading in clean energy policies needed to tackle the worst impacts, water management is still a real problem. … Ángel S. Fernández-Bou, bilingual senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, has spent part of his career studying the problems facing California’s land, including farms, farmworkers, and people. He has devised several solutions that can protect people and help them prosper. They start, he says, with listening to and respecting community and Indigenous knowledge.