The Los Angeles Times – Acting on Trump’s order, federal officials opened up two California dams By Ian James and Jessica Garrison Jan. 31, 2025 Updated 4:40 PM PT “We traditionally have a high degree of coordination at the operational level, which really wasn’t a part of this decision,” Nemeth said. The two reservoirs are used to hold supplies for agricultural irrigation districts. Nemeth noted that winter is not the irrigation season for farms, which require more supplies to grow crops in the summer months, “so there isn’t a demand” for the water in the San Joaquin Valley at this time. The dams are also used to regulate the pace of floodwaters that could otherwise affect downstream areas, Nemeth said. During historic storms in 2023, she said, the state sought to work with local landowners to capture flood flows where possible to replenish groundwater. “I really can’t speak to the decision process at the Corps to make this release at this time,” she said. It was not clear where federal officials intended to send the water that was being released from the dams. Local water managers said they were caught off-guard by the federal government’s plans on Thursday. Dan Vink, a water consultant who previously served as general manager of the Lower Tule River Irrigation District, called the situation “extremely unprecedented.”
Lost World of the Maya | National Geographic (youtube video) Auto Transcript: Bill Ringle: perhaps a better way to think about it is a political ideology and of course it had religious overtones – cult’s perhaps the wrong word because it suggests something kind of small-scale and extra-governmental this was political ideology front and center George Bey: the maya knew about droughts they were probably a civilization designed to respond not only to managing rainwater but managing a lack of rainwater too it’s not a surprise they left what becomes the question for us is why they don’t come back Narrator: so why didn’t stairway’s residents and the king of Kiuic survive these droughts as they clearly had in the past the extreme intensity of these droughts was disastrous making a carefully managed response their only hope but bey and ringle speculate the north’s political establishment was falling into disarray distracted by the cult of the feathered serpent Bill Ringle: the collapse in the northern mile apparently began during the 9th century and that’s also the time period during which this feathered serpent ideology was introduced and this undoubtedly led to rivalries with respect to power brokering Narrator: Ringle thinks the political situation may have become so extreme that there was no longer any governmental system capable of organizing their return. with a stable government the northern maya might have survived but it wasn’t to be and within a century the major cities and towns of the north just like the south were left in ruins today the empty jungles of the yucatan serve as a reminder that even great civilizations can fail
Politico – Trump dumped these farmers’ water. They’d rather not talk about it. President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to unleash California’s water — only the water he released belonged to the very farmers he’d promised to help. By Camille von Kaenel and Annie Snider 02/06/2025 At least publicly, the farmers and their Republican allies are brushing off the president’s abrupt move last week to dump more than 2 billion gallons of their irrigation water from reservoirs in the name of aiding Los Angeles wildfires — even though the fires were already contained and the water couldn’t have made it to Los Angeles anyway. Zack Stuller, a farmer with citrus and almond orchards he irrigates from the reservoirs and president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau in the state’s arid Central Valley, said the situation “definitely was a little nerve-wracking for a while.” But, he said, “I’m a farmer. I have a conservative mindset. I encourage the trigger-pulling attitude, like, ‘Hey, let’s just get stuff done.’” The episode is one of the most visceral examples of a recurring theme for Trump and his most loyal supporters who’ve stuck with him through sweeping actions in the first weeks of his presidency that could hurt their bottom lines, be it the deportation of workers or expensive tariffs.
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