TSF Thinks "A Very Large Faucet" In Canada Will Send All That Country's Water To California [View all]

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No, I'm not making this up.

A proposal by Donald Trump for California to use Canadian water sources like a “very large faucet” is being mocked by experts on engineering and politics in Canada. On Friday, at a press conference in Los Angeles, Trump was asked what he plans to do to assist Californians facing danger from wildfires. Trump blamed water shortages in southern California on environmental protections to save the delta smelt fish, but this is a claim he has made for years that is not supported by scientific data. He then proceeded to offer a questionable solution.

Trump: So you have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north, with the snow caps and Canada, and—all pouring down, and they have a—essentially—a very large faucet, and you turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it, it’s massive. It’s as big as the wall of that building right there behind you. And you turn that, and all of that water goes into the—aimlessly into the Pacific. And if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here, and right into Los Angeles.

Tricia Stadnyk, an environmental engineering professor at the University of Calgary, was skeptical of Trump’s idea in an interview with Canadian news outlet CTV. “To me, it's an uninformed opinion,” Stadnyk said. “It's somebody that doesn't fully understand how water works and doesn't understand the intricacies of allocating water not only between two countries but also for the environment.”

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In 2020 when he was president, Trump threatened to withhold federal funds to assist California as it dealt with the fallout of wildfires. “You gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests,” Trump said, directing his comments to residents of the state. “There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.” The faucet commentary echoes other off-kilter remarks Trump has made during the presidential campaign, like praising fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, discussing sharks while speaking about electric batteries, and talking about wind turbines killing birds.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/17/2270970/-Trump-s-uninformed-water-proposal-is-mocked-on-Canadian-television?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web?pm_source=ICYMI&pm_campaign=ICYMI09172024