Trump orders more water supplies to CA

President Donald Trump has signed Enforcement order On Sunday, which told federal agencies to “immediately take action” to deliver more water to the Central Valley and to eliminate the rules that stand on the road, including protected species.

In the new line, Trump cites fires in Los Angeles, although the actions he ordered – mostly supplies more water than the federal Central Valley Project – He would serve mostly for farms. About 75% of the water of the Central Valley Project is used for agricultureWhile most of the rest go to cities and cities in the San Joaquin Valley, including Sacramento and Freshno.

“Moreover, the Secretary of the Interior and the Sales Secretary shall immediately take action to cancel existing activities, which unjustifiably load the efforts to increase water supplies,” Trump’s order said.

The bets are the rules that run two massive Delta water systems, the Central Valley Federal Project and the State System, the State Water Project. These networks of tanks, pumps and channels supply water to millions of acres of agricultural land and 30 million people. They attract water from rivers flowing into the Delta of Sacramento-San Joaquin and San Francisco Bay, which deletes Chinook Salmon, Smelt and Sturgeon, which are protected by the Federal Law on endangered species.

Trump ordered federal agencies to “accelerate actions related to any release under the Law on endangered species … for long -term work” of water supply systems. He also directed the Federal Reclamation Bureau to “take all available measures to ensure that state agencies – including the California Department of Water Resources – Not to interfere.” He entitled the “prevailing catastrophic policies in California” section.

Environmentalists will probably judge if federal agencies repeal the Join the Types Act when they determine rules that control how much water is delivered through the Central Valley or State Water Project draft.

Several Community monitoring groups and environmental groups, including the restoration of the Delta and San Francisco Delta, warned that Trump’s actions “would” have detrimental consequences for the water future of California, public health and environmental protection, threatening the federal absorption of law California to rule its land and waters. “

Noting that the actions would be beneficial to farmers, San Francisco Bayer’s scientific director John Rosenfield called the administration “a lawless regime that uses extortion to enrich its political supporters.”

Trump’s order says: “It is in the interest of the country to ensure that California has what it needs to prevent and fight these fires and others in the future. Therefore, the United States policy is to provide Southern California with the necessary water resources, despite actively harmful state or local policies. “

Environmental groups said the Trump directives “associated the needs for preventing fires with water operations in California, all based on the myth that water operations to protect the environment affect the water infrastructure used in Los Angeles fires.”

Some of Los Angeles Fire Hydrants have run out of water, fighting fires, but fire and utility staff say that It is caused by a sudden jump in demand and limited capacity of urban pipelines – No lack of delivery. In addition, the city’s water comes most from the Owens Valley and groundwater, not from the Delta or from the Central Valley.

Rosenfield said that the state water project ensures that even in the oldest sushi, that communities have a minimal share of water determined for the purposes of “human health and safety”, which includes fire extinguishing needs. “They always deliver this water to a person’s health and safety, always – it is never interrupted,” Rosenfield said.

Trump has called on the Reclamation Bureau to manage the Central Valley project with rules that his first administration was implemented in 2020, the return of these rules may cancel the rules signed by the law by the Biden administration and approved by the civil servants in December. Biden’s rules will reduce the supplies of Project Farm Central Valley, but the state water project – which serves the cities in southern California, as well as the farms of the San Hoaquin Valley – will receive farms for the San Hoaquin Valley more water Compared to Trump’s 2020 rules.

Directors of State Water Agencies and Resources could not be reached for comment.

Ryan Edine, an employee of public information at the California Department of Water Resources, said in a statement last week that his agency is standing according to its new rules for water management Delta. According to these rules, said Endaine, “Farms and cities have the potential to receive additional water supply, while the endangered species are protected. To give up these new frameworks would harm water users in California and protect the local fish species. ”

The Central Valley project provides about 5 million acres of water for the farm, enough to irrigate about one -third of the agricultural land in California, according to the Reclamation Bureau. It also supplies about 600,000 acres of ft for municipal and industrial use in San Joaquinvaliel and some cities on the bay, enough to deliver about 1 million households with water each year.

The order follows a series of remarks in recent weeks by the President who reflect the deep misunderstanding of the water supply in California, the weaving between inaccurate and fantastic.

In Pacific Palisades on Friday, While Visiting with Local Leaders in the Aftermath of the Region’s Wildfires, Trump Said, “We have to have that water… You’re Talking about P from Parts of Canada, and it pours naturally … It will never run out, you will never have a shortage and you will have such things and when you do, you will have a lot of water to expose it. “The water does not flow into California from Canada, and the Pacific northwest does not feed in the Central Valley Rivers. Instead, the water comes largely from Sierra Nevada’s snowfall.

The order also includes provisions to accelerate the help of victims of wild fires in southern California and Hurricane Helen in North Carolina.

He ordered federal agencies to provide a plan that “accelerates the possibilities of facilitating housing of survivors displaced by fires in California.” Also, “within 5 days from the date of this order,” he ordered federal agencies to “accelerate the removal of bulk from contaminated and common debris” to “accelerate the restoration of areas devastated” by wild fires.