President Donald Trump issued a wide range of instructions in the first week of his inauguration, but one of the relatively niche issues is the anger of the president and an imbalanced share of attention: water in California. policy. It may make sense if he can help his pursuing remedy in the last few weeks to cause a fatal fire, such as killing at least 29 people in the Los Angeles area. In fact, the president has argued that “the firefighter could not fight the flame due to a dry fire hydrant, an empty reservoir, and an inadequate water infrastructure.”
Unfortunately, for future firefighting victims, the only obvious purpose of the President’s new policy is to deliver more water to hundreds of miles away from the state firefighting zone.
On the first day of his president, Trump issued a presidential order to his Ministry of Interior to “routing more water” to the southern state of the state. Later, on Sunday, he issued another order to the department to “override” the control of the state water, even if it meant to reject California’s law. The order also suggested that if the nation did not follow his satisfaction, Trump could refrain from federal aid.
However, new measures will not deliver water to Los Angeles anymore. Instead, his attempt to alleviate the water limit is that he has a long -standing petal problem in the state of a sparse population of the President who attempted the same operation during his first term. Move more water on a scale farm. This time he advanced, hindered the rules of the endangered Species species, and rejected the state policy, Influated farmers who support all three of his campaigns。
This has nothing to do with Los Angeles’s mountain fire. In one, the city has not experienced water shortage. The fierce hurricane wind was incigning the parisade and Eaton’s fire was not a shortage of water to close the flame. The local aquarium near Pacific Paris Sede has run out of water, but it can pump new supplies into the hill near the hill at a fast speed to catch up with the demand in the event of a fire. Because it wasn’t. There is enough water to send it there.
Even Los Angeles Was Trump’s presidential order does not help the federal canal system actually does not deliver water to the Los Angeles area, so there is little water. More than 90 % of the water go to Central Valley farms, and the rest go to a distant city around San Francisco and Sacramento. All of these water has already been spoken, and the government cannot even meet all existing contracts during the dry year. What you can do is that farmers can relieve environmental rules that restrict some of the pumps that have long opposed.
However, even the advocates of some farms are skeptical of Trump’s latest order and the unique connection between the wildfire.
“I am always grateful for trying to create more flexibility around the state to move water, [federal] Alex Bearing, a senior agricultural lobby in California Farm Burfedelation, states: “I don’t think the additional water coming from the Federal Project can be applied to stop the fire. It is an attempt to supply water to natural disasters, but those connections do not exist in reality.”
On the other hand, environmental organizations have accused him of Trump’s attempts to strengthen California’s strong water policy in California’s strong water policy. And the integrity of the federal endangered Species species works as a whole.
John Rosenfield, a scientific director of San Francisco Bakeper, a non -profit organization in the Golden State, states: “It’s not from this planet.
California’s water system has been subject to intense political discussions for decades. During the 20th century, the Federal Government and California have built complex dams and canals designed to move water from the northern part of the state. Valley and Los Angeles metropolitan area. The federal government operates dams, canals, and pumps that push water south in the valley, and the state runs a canal extending to Los Angeles. The system offers water to about 30 million Californians and irrigates the most productive farmland in the country of about 4 million acres.
The core of this transportation system is Sacramento and Sun Kinderta, a sensitive wetland area that runs into San Francisco Bay, converging two of the two rivers in the state. This area is the point where the endangered ED species such as Chinook Salmon enter from the Pacific Ocean and swim upstream to lay eggs. If the federal and state pumps are moving too much water from the delta for farms and cities, they reverses the current flow, pulling the fish or sucking into the pump. This is a violation of the extinction Species Species. The 2 -inch gray baitfish, known as one of these vulnered fish species, is particularly sensitive to these current changes, and the government often restricts pumping to protect it. Masu.
Monday night, Trump I accidentally insisted In the true social post, he was offline for a few days for maintenance by activating the pump, saying that the army was “flowing abundantly from the northwestern part of the Pacific coast.” The pumping water is not from the northwestern part of the Pacific coast, and the federal government has already controlled and used pumps, so such actions do not require military involvement.
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In fact, it is California’s unique state -owned canal systems that deliver water to many other cities in Los Angeles and Southern California, and the federal government has no jurisdiction. The state government rarely reduces these water supply in a dry year to maintain a robust supply and provides all the water required by each city. However, the delivery to Los Angeles is typical last year, and the state reservoir level is higher than the average. (In addition, Los Angeles Metro has increased the proportion of water from other sources, such as the Colorado and Owens Valley.)
Despite his fostering the east coast, Donald Trump has been sticking to the Central Valley water problem for many years. He chose David Bernhardt, who performed lobbying in the influential Westlands water district, and led the Ministry of Home Affairs during the first administration. He also held several rally in the area during the 2020 campaign, and frequently made water policy in the foreground. When it appeared in the Joe Logan Podcast last year, Trump at that time derived the host through a dia trib about water and was dried a few years ago while traveling around the area with the members of Central Valley. I explained the farmland.
“We are driving, but I have never seen it,” he said. “I said,” Do you have a drought? They say, “No … Water is flowing into the Pacific Ocean to protect small fish.” I have to do it. ” “
During his first term, Trump has drained new rules to accelerate the supply of water from Sacramento’s Joa Kin Delta. These rules suggested that pumping should only be restricted when smart and muddy water exists in Delta, but some of the farm groups said they had wasted water during the recent wet period. It also included the provisions and could not prevent salmon death. Unique metric. After Joe Biden took over Trump, the Democratic President finely adjusted their rules with joint efforts with California. And many environmental groups have criticized Biden’s rules for fish than Trump.
This time, Trump may go further. His recent presidential order suggests that he can rewrite another wholesale of the pumping rules, build a new dam around the state, and even declare a functional extinct Delta confectionery. I am doing it. It also proposes to convene the Federal Committee, which is colloquial as a group of agencies that can be exempted to the extinction SPECIES Species’ Law. This has occurred only a few times since the law was enforced, but theoretically, “God’s squad” means that it is danger to the existence of smelt or salmon driving itself. And the government can make more water into the farm. delta.
Usually, some of the strongest water areas in California, which are usually operated by large -scale farmland owners, praise the presidential decree, but they do not follow Trump when connecting them to fire. For example, the Westlands Water district, which covers more than 500,000 acres on the west side of Central Valley, stated in a statement that Trump’s “leadership in dealing with barriers to water supply” welcomed.
However, despite the intensity of the White House’s actions, it is not clear that at least one of these changes will pass in the short term. California’s water is one of the most proposed issues in the United States, and even a small fine adjustment of the state pump system can cause legal tasks.
“They can try a lot of this,” said Bearing, the defender of the California Farm Bureau. “That’s right. How many times do you want to sue?”
