Digging on the California water situation.
Anons, here's what I've figured out thus far. Attached a map for reference, link below.
There is a federally owned water pump, the CW Bill Jones Pumping Station that Trump can authorize to pump more water. Six pumps, each powered by a 22,500-horse-power electric motor, lift Delta waters about 200 feet from the intake through three discharge pipes, which then carry it up a distance of about 1 mile from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and sends it South the Delta-Mendota Canal.
At the same time, there is a state owned pump - the Harvey O Banks Delta Pumping Station. This is part of the CA Water Project. This one sends water into the California Aqueduct, the state owned part of the system.
In Trumps first term, he signed an executive order to send more water in the federal system and California said less water through the California Aqueduct. The CW Bill Jones Pumping Station can increase the volume of water it pumps, but the actual distribution of this water involves state systems rather than the water flowing independently of these controls.
While Trump has ordered the CW Bill Jones Pumping Station to pump more water which he has control of federally, Newsom/California control the Harvey O Banks Delta Pumping Station. Has anything changed since trying this in his first term or is Newsom and the state of California still not complying and letting the water flow south?
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113904028349476462
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1884245022041858392
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Study-area-SWP-indicates-the-location-of-the-Harvey-O-Banks-Pumping-Plant-of-the_fig1_350140286