Why the water Trump ordered released in California won’t help Los Angeles firefighting
follow Deadly wild fire in Los Angeles In January, President Trump ordered the Army Engineering Corps to release billions of gallon of water from the two reservoirs in the central valley of California, 100 miles from the fire zone.
Mr. Trump claims that California has detained the water supply that may do with flames. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California and other officials Proposal to these claimsEssence
Now, the water released from the dam of the Lake Lake and the Dam of Chenggong Lake is rushing to a dry lake bed in the central valley, where Experts say it cannot flow to Southern California And may be wasted.
Climate and hydrological expert Peter Gleick said: “There is absolutely no connection between this kind of water and the water required by fire protection.” “There is no physical connection. There is no way to move the water from the Los Angeles Basin to Los Angeles basin.”
Gleick and others jointly founded the Pacific Institute of the Oakland Research Center, who said that the move ignored the reality of water management in California.
He explained: “The farmers in the basin have water, winter, winter, water is stored in these dams so that farmers can use it in very hot, long, and dry summer.”
He said that from the perspective of farmers, water is “assumed to be lost.”
Democratic California Senator Adam Schiff said that the release of water also had the risk of floods.
He said: “I think even the water managers have only a very short attention,” Please don’t do that. You can’t do that. “” Frankly, if they do not speak from the wall, it will It is a serious flood. This will be a bigger problem. “
Herge criticized Trump’s order to be “stupid, absurd, danger and waste.”
Siter said: “We will need to talk about this damage publicly.” “This is a waste of precious water. We just have no water to waste.”
