Trump has fixated on California's water management issues to criticize Democratic politicians with what experts say are 'preposterous' claims about Canada and the Delta smelt.
While a growing force of national and international firefighters attempt to contain the wildfires sweeping across the greater Los Angeles area, powerful winds are threatening to trigger new blazes. Jay Gray joins Miranda Anthistle from the Pacific Palisades to report on the latest threats to the area.has made what experts call “preposterous” and false claims that California could have avoided the disaster by allowing water from Canada to flow through the state.
“The idea that we could send Columbia water specifically to California is preposterous,” said John Wagner, an environmental anthropologist and professor at the University of British Columbia.Los Angeles County has faced issues with water flows during the wildfires, with some fire hydrants running dry in urban areas, impacting the ability for firefighters to battle the flames. Water trucks have since replenished the dry hydrants.
“There’s just no basis in reality for tying the Delta smelt to the fires in L.A.,” said Karrigan Bork, interim director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California Davis. “There’s absolutely no relationship at all.” Hydrants are designed for fighting fires at one or two houses at a time, not hundreds, Quiñones said, and refilling the tanks also requires asking fire departments to pause firefighting efforts.Intense winds threaten explosive fire growth in CaliforniaHurricane-force winds that whipped up the flames grounded firefighting aircraft that should have been making critical water drops early last week, straining the hydrant system, officials said.
The modernized pact seeks to “rebalance” cooperation between the two countries, officials said last year, allowing the United States to keep more hydro while giving Canada opportunities to both import power and export it to the U.S. market. It also improves collaboration with First Nations on management of the river, including salmon populations.Talks on updating the treaty first began during Trump’s first term before being finalized by the Biden administration.
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