On Friday, he posted an announcement showing a photo of a flowing river, calling it the "beautiful water flow that I just opened in California."
In a statement from Washington D.C., the Corps wrote, "Consistent with the Executive Order...the US Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires."
"Apparently, Mr. Trump felt that that was going to help Southern California," said water strategist Barry Nelson. "Number one, those rivers aren't connected to Southern California. That water will not get to Southern California. Number two, that's water that the Corps was holding for farmers to irrigate with next summer. Releasing it now, when it's raining doesn't do anybody good, except it creates the very real risk of potential flooding."
"California salmon are right now at one of the most disastrous points they've been at, certainly in human history," said Nelson. "We've now gone to a point where many of our most important salmon runs are on the brink of extinction."
"The agriculture community looks at it and says, 'What is going on here?' That is water that was being held in storage for farmers to grow stuff next summer," said Nelson. "Releasing water now only does one thing: puts people at risk from flooding."
"California has the most complex plumbing system on the planet," he said. "It's not a simple thing to operate. And if you think it's simple, and order people to make what look like simple decisions to you, you wind up making really dumb decisions."
"What's interesting here is that this experience with this just dumb release of water -- that didn't benefit anybody and threatened public safety -- shows that expertise actually matters when you're running big complicated systems," said Nelson. "We'll see if anyone in Washington D.C. is listening to that lesson."
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