Erroneous accusations that a wealthy couple, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, have been hoarding water amid the Southern California wildfires have been spreading widely online.

A billionaire couple was accused of withholding water that could help stop Los Angeles’ massive wildfires. Democratic leadership was blamed for fire hydrants running dry and for an empty reservoir. Firefighters were criticized for allegedly using “women’s handbags” to fight the fires.

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As the Eaton and Palisades fires consume California, social media users have reignited controversy over Lynda and Stewart Resnick, two married Los Angeles collectors who have a significant stake in the state's water.

The most likely source of these hoarding rumors is that the Resnicks own the Westside Mutual Water Company. That company has a 57% stake in the Kern Groundwater Bank Authority, which operates the Kern Water Bank, a vast stretch of land that can hold up to 1 million acre feet of groundwater.

Because of agriculture’s heavy reliance on water, a critical resource in fighting wildfires, the Resnicks became the targets for false claims on social media that they “contro

Stewart and Lynda Resnick have been using more water than every home in Los Angeles combined, report shows - Anadolu Ajansı

The couple’s company has a majority stake in a water bank in the San Joaquin Valley and uses vast amounts of water to manage its nearly 130,000-acre California agriculture operation. But the claim that the Resnicks own nearly all — or even a large portion — of California’s water is a massive exaggeration.

The Wonderful Company announced Wednesday that it is donating $10 million to fire relief efforts in the Los Angeles area.