The US president told military engineers to open two dams in the state's central valley, claiming it would help put out blazes that have ravaged the city and would also irrigate farmland.
“I only wish they listened to me six years ago - There would have been no fire!”
Water scientist Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute said the release amounted to Trump having “thrown away” billions of gallons of water.
“California’s water system is very delicately balanced among all of the competing interests, and this episode shows that even slight interference in that system can cause chaos.”
The battle to contain them was hampered in the first 24 hours by the fact that winds were too high for helicopters and planes to take to the skies.
Trump seized on that, claiming it was proof that California officials managed their water supplies badly, resurrecting erroneous claims about water from the north of the state spilling into the Pacific Ocean instead of being diverted to the south.
“These releases did not meet their stated intent of providing Los Angeles with additional water,“ they said in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
They “could reduce the availability of critical municipal and agricultural water supplies later in the year, further exacerbating the fire, safety, and economic risks facing this drought-prone region for years,“ the letter said.
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