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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

sjvwater.org/trumps-emergency-

SJV Water · Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV WaterThe sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes

@petergleick
Absolutely horrific. Why would the federal government have control over this? It would be the State, correct?

@Nazani @lin11c
These dams are controlled and operated by the US army corps of engineers.