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The Trump-Vance Administration is trying to
Punish California by rerouting the state's water
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This memorandum calls for rerouting water from California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state.
Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California
January 20, 2025
This memorandum directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Interior to make progress on routing water from Northern California to Central and Southern California, purportedly to fight wildfires, within 90 days. Officials and experts have said water supply is not a problem Los Angeles faces in fighting recent fires, so this order is unlikely to improve California's wildfire management abilities. Additionally, it is likely to harm the already endangered populations of smelt, salmon, and steelhead in the state, causing irrevocable damage to California's biodiversity and critical habitats.
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