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President Trump’s order to release billions of water gallons in the central valley of California last week – with the target goal of decreasing fires 100 kilometers away – is failed as ineffective and wasted by California experts and legislators.
“No one can take any queues or queues of what Donald Trump did or why, or believes that it makes sense,” said Senator Adam Schiff (D-CalifInterview MSNBCOn Monday night.
“This water cannot reach Los Angeles,” Schiff continued. “Fires are out, they are not 5 percent content, not 20 percent, or 50 percent content. It is 100 % contained. Therefore, water is not for firefighters.”
Water release occurred at the end of last week through the United States Army Engineers and involved the opening of two Tulare County dams (in Lake Kaweah and success. Lake) Located in the heart of the central valley rich in California agriculture.
On Friday Trump presumedSocial truthOn the “beautiful water flow” that “has just opened in California”, saying that only 1.6 billion gallons had been released that day.
Launches occurred after Trump’s issuance of aexecutive orderThis directed U.S. government agencies to annul the California Watercios policies as needed,While censorshipThe management of the state of the wildfires that devastated the Los Angeles region in recent weeks.
“Water flows in California,” the President Posted on Monday. “These” Halfpipes “empty are now with beautiful and clean water and directing to farmers throughout the state and Los Angeles.”
But California experts and legislators have requested Trump’s statements as inaccurate, as the water from the lakes in question usually does not reach Los Angeles, while also releasing launches as reckless and waste in a winter. Sec.
“There is not as much snow unit as normally,” Schiff said on Monday. “We trust the water that is stored as this water when farmers need it in summer to irrigate. They are not released now. So the water will sit on a lake, it will evaporate, it will be wasted. “”
Peter Gleick, co -founder and senior scholarship of the Pacific Institute, a non -profit, described Trump’s actions as “a combination of political ignorance and blind ignorance”, adding that the releases allowed the president “to boast, incorrectly. , about providing water to address Wildfires fires. “
“Not a single drop of released water can reach Los Angeles; there is simply no physical connection between these basins,” Gleick said. “As a result, everything Trump managed to do was angry at local water districts and farmers who lost more than 2 billion gallons of water that flowed, unused and unusable, on the dry bed of the lake of the lake TULAR CONCA, where farmers will not be available in the coming heat season. “
Jay Lund, an environmental engineer at the University of California, Davis, also noted the breadth and complexity of water management efforts in California, which involve various water demands; Hydrology and infrastructure; Substantial decentralization; and numerous laws, regulations and contracts. As such, he continued, the state and federal projects that come without intergovernmental and local coordination can decrease in terms of effectiveness and waste.
“Recent federal orders to release additional water from some small deposits are also vice -president of the Watershed Center for the University of California, Davis.
“The launches were disconnected and had no effect on the availability of water in the Los Angeles region,” he added. “The releases seem to be more symbolic of some long -term federal intent.”
While Trump had it initially declared That 5.2 billion gallons of water would be released for three days, the Army Corps of Engineers reduced the additional downloads after local water managers warned possible dangers, according to the non -moody news site. Local profit. SJV water.
The data from the Army Engineers Corps show sudden peaks in the discharge flows of both The Schafer dam and Lake Kaweah’s Cursed end From Thursday to Sunday, with the total amount of water released to 2 billion gallons, according to media reports.
“If the local authorities did not prevail at the last minute, instead of losing between 1 and 3 billion gallons of water, this amount would have been two or three times,” Schiff said.
Like Schiff, his colleague the Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) Operated the Trump administration to open the two dams, emphasizing that the action had taken place without proper notification to local officials, threatening the Communities of the Central Valley.
Shortly after starting the launches, PadillaRequired answersFrom the Department of Defense, questioning the reason for the “unscheduled” action that was allegedly serving “to help fight forest fires in Los Angeles County (which are almost completely content).
“What is the plan to transport this water to Los Angeles instead of letting the water be downloaded simply to Lake Tulare where it will evaporate?” Padilla, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The Padilla team explained that local officials had warned the Army Engineers’ body that unloading water at the levels he intended would have flooded both the Kaweah and Tule rivers, threatening the communities and farms. downstream. This action, added the senator’s office, would also be to “waste water that could have been used for irrigation during the summer.”
“Und programmed water launches require close coordination with local officials and security staff, as well as agricultural water users downstream, in order to reduce flood risks in communities and farms,” He wrote Padilla.
“From the urgent concerns I have heard of my voters, as well as the recent reports, it seems that a seriously insufficient notification was given, giving the residents downstream in danger,” added the senator.
