Trump and California’s water systems A few weeks ago I wrote about Trump criticizing Gov. Gavin Newsom for not letting Northern California water flow to Los Angeles to fight the fires.

So far, 66,692 acre-feet of water has been diverted away from Tulare Lake and will be used to recharge groundwater and replenish storage, the office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers abruptly increased the amount of water flowing from two California dams. The federal agency made the decision after President Trump signed an order calling for ...

None of the Kaweah River’s water was destined for elsewhere in California — in wet years it flows into the remnants of once-giant Tulare Lake, which has no outlet, and in dry ones the river ...

Never mind that precious little of California’s water supply originates in a southern Oregon watershed. Trump’s statement was widely analyzed to be untrue by The Bee and elsewhere.

But a few days later, in a show of authority that superseded California’s own water policy, Trump ordered the US Army Corps to open two dams in central California, which ultimately flooded ...

“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” said Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the ...