California water officials are pushing back on false claims by the White House that the Trump administration sent the U.S. military to quote 'turn on the water' in the wake of the Los Angeles County wildfires.
California water officials are pushing back on false claims by the White House that the Trump administration sent the U.S. military to quote "turn on the water" in the wake of the Los Angeles County wildfires. "The military did not enter California," the California Department of Water Resources wrote late Tuesday night in a rare post on social media directly aimed at the president.
"The water has been turned back on in California," she said. "And this comes just days after President Trump visited Pacific Palisades. And as you all saw, applied tremendous pressure on state and local officials in Pacific Palisades, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, to turn on the water and to direct that water to places in the south and in the middle of the state, that have been incredibly dry.
Trump had also posted a false claim on social media that the "United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond." Most of California’s water comes from the north, where it melts from mountain snow and runs into rivers that connect to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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