The clip I saw Trump said it is not true that the farm water shortage was due to drought.
Which is true, all things considered. It's a man-made drought.
California had a monumental Biblical flood around 1860; the entire valley could be navigated from any point to any other point in riverboats in a straight line.
California properly deemed the total loss value to entire towns (including the Capital,) roads etc., to be trivial compared to a determined program to prevent its recurrence.
For the next 75 years an extensive network of dams and reservoirs was built to solve the problem, which indeed it did. The goal was both flood control and irrigation to one of the richest, extensive valleys on earth, as well as consumption for human beings.
Fast forward to the new dark age, disguised as mindless "environmentalism;" (Bumper stickers, "Environment NOW!" WTF?)
In the 1970s a program was mounted at absurd cost, actually to dismantle the prudent system.
Forty years later, a new program was mounted, at absurd cost to replace the network previously destroyed. But this time worms, salamanders and tiny junk fish ruled the masters.
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As an aside, in the current drought, those very same crtitters were the first to die; extensively and thoroughly.)
(To be continued)