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On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:48:02 -0600, De-Trois-Leaning <dtl@invalid.net> wrote:

>Alan wrote:
>> Your article is a lie...
>
>
>The fact that you RUN from truth when confronted with it is well 
>established.
>
>Your entire riff on Trump is lie and lie again and again, etc...
>
>As for what you think you've "showed"...
>
>Like claiming that Trump was wrong when he said there's no main valve to 
>redirect NoCal water:
>
>
>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/22/delta-smelt-fish-trump-california-aoe
>
>"Last fall, Trump signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to 
>review and roll back environmental standards slowing down the flow of 
>water to farms in the Central Valley. In February this year, the 
>president nominated David Bernhardt to serve as his interior secretary.
>
>...turning down the pumps isn’t quite as easy as shutting off a faucet. 
>The multi-story state and federal pumping plants operate in tandem and 
>are powerful enough to make rivers flow backward.
>
>If the delta smelt go, California may be able to pump some more."
>
>https://envirobites.org/2019/06/24/farmers-vs-fish-the-story-of-delta-smelt/
>
>"To move water around, over 1,400 dams and miles of aqueducts have been 
>constructed. A tidal wetland-turned-agricultural land, the Sacramento – 
>San Joaquin Delta is the center of California’s water distribution 
>system. About half of California’s developed water moves through the 
>delta via two pumping plants: Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State 
>Water Project."
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_Project
>
>"The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal power and water 
>management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision 
>of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). It was devised in 
>1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of 
>California's Central Valley—by regulating and storing water in 
>reservoirs in the northern half of the state (once considered water-rich 
>but suffering water-scarce conditions more than half the year in most 
>years), and transporting it to the water-poor San Joaquin Valley and its 
>surroundings by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, 
>some shared with the California State Water Project (SWP). Many CVP 
>water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association.
>
>
>Two large reservoirs, Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake, are formed by a pair 
>of dams in the mountains north of the Sacramento Valley. Water from 
>Shasta Lake flows into the Sacramento River which flows to the 
>Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and water from Trinity Lake flows into the 
>Trinity River which leads to the Pacific Ocean. Both lakes release water 
>at controlled rates. There, before it can flow on to San Francisco Bay 
>and the Pacific Ocean, some of the water is intercepted by a diversion 
>channel and transported to the Delta-Mendota Canal, which conveys water 
>southwards through the San Joaquin Valley, supplying water to San Luis 
>Reservoir (a SWP-shared facility) and the San Joaquin River at Mendota 
>Pool in the process, eventually reaching canals that irrigates farms in 
>the valley. Friant Dam crosses the San Joaquin River upstream of Mendota 
>Pool, diverting its water southwards into canals that travel into the 
>Tulare Lake area of the San Joaquin Valley, as far south as the Kern 
>River. Finally, New Melones Lake, a separate facility, stores water flow 
>of a San Joaquin River tributary for use during dry periods. Other 
>smaller, independent facilities exist to provide water to local 
>irrigation districts"
>
>https://water.ca.gov/programs/state-water-project
>
>https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project/Operations-and-Maintenance
>
>
>Big old shutoff valve = check!

Nothing here about Canada, much less a giant faucet.

You lose!

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