Alarm experts stand out after US President Donald Trump ordered the opening of two dams in central California at the end of last week, allowing about 2.2 billion gallons of water flow from the tanks.
The Army Engineers Corps released water from two wardens in Sierra Nevada on Friday, but this step It was not allowed to warn For local farmers, Politico mentioned.
“The local water managers were on the Koya river, took off the equipment, and alerted farms about possible floods with notice for an hour only,” said Victor Hernandez Vet Victor Hernandez in Kawa River River.
He is not the only person who expresses his concerns about the water management tactic, and that many have argued as a misleading step by Trump, who said in recent weeks that California has blocked the critical water supply that could make a difference when fighting the fire fires that destroyed Los Angeles and South California last month.
On Friday, Trump posted an advertisement showing a picture of a flowing river, describing it as “the beautiful flow of water that was just opened in California.”
Published by President Donald Trump on his social reality platform, proud to issue water from the California Dam.
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“There is definitely No connection “There is no material connection,” said Peter Glick, a climate expert and hydrology and his first colleague at the American Pacific Institute.
Moreover, GLICK told the Los Angeles Times, the water will not be used or used in fire control, and it is not used by farmers because this is not the irrigation season, and it will not be saved for the dry season, which will come. “
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It was “a An unimaginable work of self -destruction “For political appearance,” said Glick.
Below is a look at how to affect water on the inhabitants of California, agricultural operations and animals in the coming months.
Flood
Some experts argue that winter – usually when California receives most of the rain – was not the best time to release water from the dams, on the pretext that it might be lost or even leads to floods.
“It is now launching, when it rains, no one can well, but it creates A very real danger of potential floodsBarry Nelson told CBS strategy expert.
Hernandez Politico told the local officials that they managed to intervene at the last minute It prevents floods narrowly During the weekend, he spoke in the Army’s engineers for only 2.2 billion gallons, instead of 5.2 billion gallons Trump boasted They came in his social position.
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Although it is not unusual to launch water from the dams before the heavy rains, such as the rains that struck northern California during the weekend, Hernandez said that Trump’s first direction would have fired more water than required and the Koya and Toul river were flooded.
The risk of insufficient water
Other experts argue that although the amount of water released was less than Trump at first, it was possible to use it during the arid summer in California instead.
“They were carrying additional water in these tanks because of the danger to be a dry summer,” Heather Cole, director of research of the Pacific Institute, told CNN. This puts agriculture in The risk of insufficient water During the summer months. “
“These types of Shenigan are hurting young farmers,” Dezaray Bagalayos, a local water activist, spoke to the Los Angeles Times.
She said that small farmers are already struggling, and the release of water from the dams at this time of the year means that there will be less during the peak growth season.
“The last thing in the world that his California water management needs is a person like Trump calling the shots when he does not know how anything does,” said Baglaius. “It makes a very difficult situation. We don’t have much climatic spaces in California Tampering with our water supplies Like him. “
Salmon
Humans are not the only ones who are likely to face dangerous risks and circumstances as a result of Trump’s order.
Nelson, a policy consultant at the Salmon Golden State Association, told CBS that its members had to stop fishing over the past two years due to The supply increases From salmon Xinuk.
“Salmon in California is now in one of the most Catastrophic points “They were definitely in the history of mankind,” Nelson said, adding that rivers with larger flows during the hot months are crucial to salmon residents.
“We have now gone to a point where many of the most important salmon on the brink of extinction.”
Moreover, the group to save California Salmon, which represents tribal societies and salmon fishing industry, told the local Cal Matters that Trump “suggests a The scarcity of water is not present“I blamed the Shinok Shinok fisheries in the state, which was closed in 2023, for the water regulations that were implemented during the Trump administration the first five years ago.
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