From rivers to dams to hundreds of miles of aqueducts, moving water around California takes a massive system, engineered over the better part of a century.
Now, with a new executive order, President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies to essentially assert control over critical sections of that system, claiming mismanagement as he tries to assign blame for the wildfires in Southern California.
“Well, it’s a lot of things. It’s a very sweeping executive order that attempts to exempt the federal water delivery system from federal law and state law and also attempts to sort of eviscerate state control of state water resources,” said Jon Rosenfield, research biologist with the environmental group San Francisco Baykeeper.
Source: KGO-ABC7