Imagine if Portland was suffering through a record dry spell and the White House ordered the Bureau of Reclamation to release water from Idaho’s reservoirs to slake its thirst.
The water in those reservoirs belongs to Idaho farmers. Taking that water will leave many of them short in a dry year. They won’t have enough to grow potatoes or other crops. The economies of many rural communities would suffer. Idaho leaders would go berserk. If a Democrat was in the White House.
The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that under President Donald Trump’s orders, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drained water from the Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and the Schafer Dam at Lake Success in the San Joaquin Valley. Just for a reference, that water belongs to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley who use it to grow all kinds of crops.
Trump chortled that day in his account on Elon Musk’s X with a "photo of beautiful water flow that I just opened in California.
“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons,” he wrote oblivious to the ownership of that water. For you farmers out there, that’s 15,958 acre-feet and counting. For comparison, Black Canyon Reservoir holds about 44,000 acre-feet of water.
That come from the same guy who said he could tap the “faucet” of the Columbia River to water California. Despite these clear and very dangerous attacks on the lifeblood of Idaho, we haven’t heard a word from Idaho Gov. Brad Little nor the Idaho all-Republican congressional delegation.
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