There are no pipelines or rivers that run from the Pacific Northwest to California you lying sack of shit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

California Department Of Water Resources Blasts Donald Trump

The California Department of Water Resources has now publicly blasted Donald Trump after he put out a statement on his Truth Social yesterday asserting that he helped "turn on the water" to California. Trump recently put out a Truth Social post, stating in part:

"The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest."

In response, the California Department of Water publicly noted that the military never came into California and that the water pumps were turned back on after maintenance for three days.

Link to tweet

https://meidasnews.com/news/california-department-of-water-resources-blasts-donald-trump

[Diraven]

1. By tomorrow

Some suck-up Republican Congressman will sponsor a bill to build this fantasy water pipeline so they can say Trump is never wrong.

[Journeyman]

2. It was already proposed, in the 1950s . . .

The North American Water and Power Alliance would have cost $100 billion or more (back then), and would have diverted water from Alaska through Canada, into the US. It was envisioned it would feed a navigable waterway from Alberta to the Great Lakes, provide additional flow to the Columbia and Missouri-Mississippi rivers systems, and been pumped over the Rockies in Idaho, there to flow into the Colorado and Rio Grande systems.

It was madness when it was proposed, and madness when it was abandoned in the 1970s. Perhaps this is what Mango Mussolini pictures in his head when he blithers and blathers his nonsense. Madness, all the way around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. tfg's lies are fun to laugh at

Link to tweet

[Dorothy V]

4. To be fair ...

the orange monstrosity couldn't find the Pacific Northwest if it was standing within sight of Mt. Rainier.

[EarthFirst]

5. According to MAGA's...

…that’s exactly s Democrat would say.

Doesn’t matter how wrong the statement is; they’ve been conditioned to believe anything they’re being sold.

Water might as well be pigeon milk (that cures cancer) for all they care…if that’s what they’re told; that’s what it is.

[Xolodno]

6. Correct, no pipelines.

But there is a concept of "water wheeling" but mainly used inside the state via aqueduct.

A water agency can purchase X acre feet from a long distance provider. They may not have a direct aqueduct, so what happens the selling agency sends it to another, who then sends the same amount to another until it can be transported by aqueduct to the purchasing agency.

I took Water Resource Economics over 25+ years ago, but moving water from one state to another was rare and given California's appetite for water, think there might laws forbidding it on the books now. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

There's been a lot of work done for the LA area to conserve and purchase water. For example lining northern aqueducts with concrete so there is little leakage into the ground, covering the aqueducts to avoid evaporation and the Metropolitan Water District purchases the water savings, along with paying for the costs. Think they had to stop covering some aqueducts as wildlife was using it.

In Orange County, they pump used water into the ground to replenish wells. It's still illegal to drink reclaimed water, but no law in pumping it into the ground and replenishing the aquifers.