President Donald Trump on Monday renewed the debate around a tiny, endangered California fish.
Trump issued an executive order to the Interior and Commerce departments, under the title “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California.”
The order directs the departments to find a way to “route more water” from California’s wet north to its dry south, where Trump says the population “desperately need a reliable water supply.”
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a major water hub for California, providing water to about 30 million people and irrigating 6 million acres of farmland.