Trump wants to tap into Canada's faucet to fight California wild fires .
Does he not know how stupid he sounds when he says stuff like that ?
“You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down and they have essentially a very large faucet,” “You turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it, and it’s massive, it’s as big as the wall of that building right there behind you. You turn that, and all of that water aimlessly goes into the Pacific (Ocean), and if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles,”
This is the type of off the cuff comments he makes that makes him sound uniformed . There are huge issues in the diversion of water. The diversion of water from the Colorado River is a complex compact between 7 state to divvy up the water of the river in an equitable manner . This took a lot of negotiations and an act of Congress.
Add to the complexity a deal between nations .
If he wanted or even needed to bring up California water issues all he needs to do is consult with former Rep Devin Nunes ;who just happens to run 'Truth Social ' for Trump. He would tell Trump that California has plenty of water IF it was properly preserved . It is nothing new for California to be in drought conditions . It happened for centuries . Left alone most of the southern part of the state would be desert. But in the north the water flows and there are wet seasons . Where does all the excess water go ? It flows out to San Francisco Bay into the Pacific.
As he wrote in 2015
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Water that originates in the snowpack of the Sierra Nevada Mountains runs off into the Delta, which has two pumping stations that help distribute the water throughout the state.
But on average, due to environmental regulations as well as a lack of water storage capacity (attributable, in large part, to activist groups' opposition to new storage projects), 70% of the water that enters the Delta is simply flushed into the ocean. California's water infrastructure was designed to withstand five years of drought, so the current crisis, which began about three years ago, should not be a crisis at all. During those three years, the state has flushed more than 2 million acre-feet of water — or 652 billion gallons — into the ocean due to the aforementioned biological opinions, which have prevented the irrigation infrastructure from operating at full capacity.
Man-Made Drought: A Guide To California's Water Wars | Investor's Business Daily (investors.com)
Trump needs to rely more on surrogates to answer questions for him. AND he should stick to topics related to the campaign. He will not win in California . Why is he even there ?
