{"id":1332,"date":"2025-01-24T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-california-fires-trump-blames-newsom-for-withholding-water-experts-disagree\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T07:00:26","slug":"in-california-fires-trump-blames-newsom-for-withholding-water-experts-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/in-california-fires-trump-blames-newsom-for-withholding-water-experts-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders for the fires that devastated Los Angeles. The president has charged that the state\u2019s Democrats have stubbornly refused to send enough water to Southern California to fight fires, which he attributed to their desire to protect the delta smelt, a threatened species of fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as Mr. Trump prepared a Friday visit to California, water experts in California said that his explanations in many cases were wrong or glossed over complex water dynamics. Southern California reservoirs were generally full of water at the start of the year, they noted, and problems in the fight against the fire had other causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s view of the situation could have very real consequences. He threatened on Wednesday to withhold federal relief funds if California does not send more of its water from the northern part of the state to its southern half. He also issued an executive order on his first day in office \u2014 titled \u201cPutting People Over Fish\u201d \u2014 that directed cabinet members to find ways within 90 days to reroute more water southward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The order brings to the fore litigation and disputes as old as California itself around who deserves precious water in the state and how its liquid gold can best serve nearly 40 million residents along with its agricultural industry, fisheries and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mountains along the spine of California \u2014 the Sierra Nevada and southern end of the Cascade Range \u2014 are an essential piece of the state\u2019s water supply. The same storms that make Yosemite National Park a winter wonderland and create ski playgrounds near Lake Tahoe leave a snowpack that melts into streams and rivers by spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While most of the state\u2019s water originates and gets stored in Northern California, most of the state\u2019s population lives in Southern California. And the water-intensive agricultural industry sits in the Central Valley, where rain is never enough to sustain each year\u2019s crops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLook, Gavin\u2019s got one thing he can do,\u201d Mr. Trump said in an interview on Wednesday with Sean Hannity, the Fox News host. \u201cHe can release the water that comes from the north. There is massive amounts of water, rainwater and mountain water, that comes, too, with the snow, comes down as it melts, there\u2019s so much water, they\u2019re releasing it into the Pacific Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the state\u2019s water supply to Southern California, experts said, had nothing to do with the fires that raged uncontrollably the night of Jan. 7 and destroyed more than 10,000 structures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things you could say that will make California look bad, but this is not one of them if you want to do it factually,\u201d said Jay Lund, a University of California, Davis, a professor emeritus who has studied water resources and environmental engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-63c24527\">A Complicated Water Hub<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Mr. Trump and other Republicans criticize California for sending water into the Pacific Ocean, they are referring to agreements that ensure the state sends enough freshwater downstream to protect crucial ecosystems. Some of that water ultimately makes its way to the ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It all comes to a head at Northern California\u2019s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where saltwater from the San Francisco Bay mixes with freshwater from rivers. The Delta is the largest estuary on the West Coast, one that is incredibly sensitive environmentally and politically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Through the Delta, the state and federal governments supply tap water to two-thirds of the state\u2019s population and irrigation water to millions of acres of farms, with a labyrinth of levees, pumps and islands controlling the balance of saltwater and freshwater. How much water to pump through the Delta has been the source of water squabbles in the drought-prone state for decades, and in that fight, the most politicized target has been one of its tiniest inhabitants: the delta smelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the fires began, Mr. Trump called it \u201can essentially worthless fish\u201d that Mr. Newsom wanted to protect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Smelt were once plentiful in the Delta, playing an important role in the ecosystem by providing food to myriad species of fish and birds. Now teetering on the brink of extinction, they offer a different ecosystem benefit, experts say: Helping to protect other native fish that also need some amount of freshwater flowing into the estuary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are a lot of different kinds of fish out there that need protection and need to be managed,\u201d said Peter Moyle, professor emeritus at University of California, Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences. \u201cThe fish are going to disappear one at a time if we don\u2019t take them into consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For decades, however, the smelt have come to represent one thing to many farmers in the Central Valley: a competing demand on their supply of water for irrigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is not the first time that a Trump administration has taken aim at the delta smelt, a humble-looking fish that exists only in California. In 2019, it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/22\/climate\/trump-delta-smelt.html\" title=\"\">weakened protections<\/a> for the fish, a move that was heralded as a win for farmers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf President Trump somehow manages to find a way to send more water south, his action will cause big problems with agriculture in the Delta and the northern half of the state,\u201d Dr. Moyle said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The smelt in question are one of seven threatened or endangered species of fish in the Delta harmed by the degraded habitat caused by diverting too much water, according to Jon Rosenfield, science director at San Francisco Baykeeper, an advocacy group. They include steelhead trout, green sturgeon and two varieties of Chinook salmon. Other Chinook have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/03\/climate\/salmon-fishery-closed-california.html\" title=\"\">fared so badly in recent years<\/a> that the state\u2019s salmon fishery has had to close for the last two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019ll never hear Donald Trump or his allies talk about endangered Chinook salmon or the closed salmon fishery. You\u2019ll never hear him talk about green sturgeon,\u201d Dr. Rosenfield said. \u201cWhy? Because people know what salmon and sturgeon are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even under the more restrictive rules that were in place until 2019, regulations that specifically related to delta smelt were responsible for no more than an average of 1.2 percent additional water flowing into San Francisco Bay, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/8mh3r97j\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to an analysis<\/a> he helped conduct.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-658d5472\">Infrastructure Problems in Pacific Palisades<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It has been well documented that some firefighters in Pacific Palisades ran out of water the night the fires tore through the neighborhood, their hoses running dry as they attempted to douse flames. Water pressure dropped, and the hydrants could not keep up with demand across the community to extinguish home after home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, one reservoir that can provide millions of gallons of water in Pacific Palisades <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/10\/us\/wildfires-pacific-palisades-water-shortage.html\" title=\"\">had been emptied<\/a> for repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has used these examples to support his argument that California failed to supply Southern California with enough water. But neither problem was the result of water transfers from the north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Multiple experts have said the municipal water system in Pacific Palisades, as in many American communities, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/us\/los-angeles-fire-water-hydrant-failure.html\" title=\"\">never built to sustain a fire<\/a> against a wild land blaze that burned thousands of homes. The storage tanks and pumping systems designed to serve the hillside neighborhood simply could not keep pace that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Water reservoirs around Los Angeles were at high levels at the end of December, Dr. Lund said. The biggest problem, he noted, was that fierce winds grounded the planes and helicopters that typically get wildfires under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere was enough water in storage in Southern California to drown the fire-affected areas in 20 feet of water, but you couldn\u2019t get it to those places,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/cdec.water.ca.gov\/resapp\/RescondMain\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">state reservoirs that store water<\/a> used by Southern Californians remain at or above 100 percent of their normal marks for this time of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe state reservoirs are at or near record highs, and the issues around the Endangered Species Act have been issues that have been litigated, adjudicated, politicized for as long as I\u2019ve been alive,\u201d Mr. Newsom said on Thursday, ahead of Mr. Trump\u2019s visit. \u201cThey\u2019re not novel to this administration. They go back to George H.W. Bush.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4c2f3ec8\">The Pacific Northwest?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent days, Mr. Trump has alluded to a water pipeline that does not exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLos Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it,\u201d he said in a news conference on Tuesday. \u201cAll they have to do is turn the valve, and that\u2019s the valve coming back from and down from the Pacific Northwest, where millions of gallons of water a week and a day, even, in many cases, pours into California, goes all through California down to Los Angeles. And they turned it off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump said, further, that California leaders were diverting that water to the Pacific Ocean through a valve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But there is no valve controlling gushing amounts of water from the Pacific Northwest. The idea to create a pipeline from Oregon and Washington State has been proposed before by Californians, but building a system that could carry water over such long distances and across towering mountain ranges has long been viewed as exorbitantly expensive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And officials in Washington State and Oregon would face political problems if they ever agreed to send their water south. The states do, however, export one byproduct of their water to California in the form of hydropower across large transmission lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to explain what he\u2019s talking about because nobody knows what he\u2019s talking about,\u201d said John Buse, general counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. \u201cThe idea of a valve and water will just flow is preposterous.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-76245617\">Sending Water South Benefits Farmers<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For decades, farmers have battled to secure more water through the Delta, and they are the most likely to benefit from moves to transfer water to the south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Mr. Trump has focused the debate this month on aiding firefighters in Pacific Palisades and supplying Southern California residents, farms historically have used several times more water than the state\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president has on multiple occasions described a past tour of Central Valley farms with former Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of California, and other Republican members of Congress that seems to have influenced his beliefs. He has made clear that he wants more water to benefit farms in California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI looked at these vast areas of land and it looked like it was just burning,\u201d Mr. Trump told Mr. Hannity on Wednesday. \u201cIt was dark, it was dry. And then there\u2019d be a little patch, a little tiny patch of green, beautiful green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAnd I\u2019d say, \u2018How come all this land has these little patches?\u2019 They said, \u2018That\u2019s all that we\u2019re allowed to farm because we have no water.\u2019 I said, \u2018Are you having a drought?\u2019 \u2018No. They\u2019ve turned off the water. They\u2019ve turned off the spigot from up north in order to protect the delta smelt.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mike Wade is the executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, which advocates exporting more water for farmers concentrated in the Central Valley. He said the president\u2019s Pacific Northwest valve comments may have just been a metaphor for managing the Delta\u2019s water supply and that the group has worked well with both the Biden and Trump administrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Wade said farmers desperately need more water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you look at the last 25 years or so, we\u2019ve seen a million acres of farmland taken out of production, largely because of a lack of water supply,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got the land, so if we\u2019ve got the water, we can farm more than we do now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Adam Nagourney<!-- --> contributed reporting from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/23\/us\/trump-newsom-water-fires.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has repeatedly blamed Gov. 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