President Donald Trump returned Sunday to touting the recent release of billions of gallons of water from two federally operated dams in California’s Central Valley — even as experts said it will produce no benefits for wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles and make little difference to farmers.
Estimates provided by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan think tank, show the Army Corps of Engineers released approximately 6,300 acre-feet of water following Trump’s demands late last month. The Army Corps did not respond to requests for exact data on the flows.
That equals a little more than 2 billion gallons of water, which Trump showed off in photos of unidentified canals “brimming with beautiful, clean water.”
In his most recent missive on social media on Sunday afternoon, he wrote: “Look what I got done for California — Reduce Water Bill NOW!”
