If the reports are correct, Trump has ordered 32,000 acre-ft (~10 billion gals) of #water released from these reservoirs. That water will, mostly, be lost. Some will evaporate, some will seep into groundwater. Farmers who had rights to that water in the reservoir are now unlikely to have physical or legal access to it. Anticipate legal chaos over water allocations in the summer. #cawater
@petergleick
Absolutely horrific. Why would the federal government have control over this? It would be the State, correct?
@lin11c @petergleick Which entity controls the dams?
@petergleick
OK thank you.