Posted on 02/04/2025 2:50:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Trump Works To End California's Man-Made DroughtAP California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water.
After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to "ensure adequate water resources in Southern California." He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty reservoirs. He directed the Bureau of Reclamation to "deliver more water and produce additional hydropower" to high-need communities.
That may seem impossible. California has been battling drought for years. In 2022, Scientific American declared the Southwest's megadrought was "the driest 22-year period in at least 1,200 years." The U.S. Drought Monitor says two-thirds of California is either "abnormally dry" or experiencing a drought. The Colorado River is running low. Just look at Lake Mead's bathtub ring.
It seems obvious that California doesn't have enough water because there simply isn't enough water available. Telling the federal government to increase water deliveries is just wishful thinking by Trump. Even California isn't dumb enough to dump trillions of gallons of fresh water into the ocean. Right?
Nope.
Several decades ago, the federal government and California built pumps to send water from Northern California to Southern California. That was smart. Southern California needed more water to support its farmland and growing population. But diverting the water changed conditions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
That shouldn't be a surprise. Changes to nature are natural. Beavers dam up rivers without running an environmental impact assessment. Earthquakes don't seek bureaucratic permission before literally shifting the earth's surface. Wildfires don't put themselves out over concerns that they're causing global warming.
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Imagine what Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom did for California.
Democrat Bass ran her political career as an “entitled black princess”-——qualified for nothing.
Bass’ biggest flop was her Los Angeles water and power czar—a latina “engineer” who got paid $750,000 tax dollars plus a mountain of perks. The latina airhead ignored a dry reservoir that could have provided 117 million gallons to help save Pacific Palisades.
Touted primarily as “the first Latina” to run such a vital agency cant matter much to the 18 million people who lost homes, possessions, livelihoods -——who figured these officials had deliverable water to protect them from the ever-present threat of an inferno.
CA has more than enough water, if it would just stop wasting it. Instead of letting others put it to productive use, it diverts it to the sea. For a simple reason:
Scarcity and rationing are the fuel of government control and socialism. Literally *anything* desired, is free or cheap, it takes power away from such tyrants, as it instantly becomes an alternative currency.
Water, air, food, you name it. If there isn’t a *real* scarcity, then they will fake one. Create one.
What about the “atmospheric rivers”!
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