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No one can survive for more than four days without water, but California doesn’t seem to care.

You can’t grow food without water either and rainfall alone isn’t reliable enough to sustain major food production. That’s why irrigation, an ancient form of human intervention, is necessary to prevent food shortages and starvation—even in the United States.

In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, President Donald expressed his concern for the intentional water shortages in California. Keep in mind, Big Tech and Hollywood are not the Golden State’s largest industries; that title belongs to Agriculture. California’s farms and ranches do $60 Billion in annual revenue. California’s Central Valley yields more crops and farm-based goods than any other state.

This can’t be done without water.

And yet, the environmentalists and their puppets in government, like Governor Gavin Newsom, are willing to flush the water required to feed the nation into the Pacific Ocean.

President Trump gets it. Now here’s the rest of the story…

I’ve written extensively about this dangerous water situation in my books, Climategate, Eco-Tyranny, and my latest book, Climate Cult. The following is from Eco-Tyranny, which was published back in 2012, exposing what the eco-freaks are up to:

If we are to meet the fundamental needs for survival as a nation, especially as our population increases by 100 million residents by the year 2050, then we need significantly more water, and we need to begin expanding our water supply immediately.  We need more water for drinking, farming, ranching, and manufacturing.

We also need more dams, which can create inexpensive, emission-free electricity.

The problem is that environmentalists are determined to maintain a limited water supply as an effective tool to restrict development, devalue private property, and therefore, better control our lives.  They despise dams and find reservoirs repugnant; in fact, they are using the same tactics they’ve used against the oil and nuclear industries:  junk science, ad hominem arguments, and throwing hissy fits to prevent new dams and reservoirs from being constructed.  Worse yet, they are on a tear to deconstruct as many dams and reservoirs as possible in the name of “restoring the environment.”

Thus far the radicals are winning this water war.  According to federal estimates, at least 36 states are on the verge of experiencing critical water shortages.  Each time a city, county, state or a member of Congress proposes a new water storage plan, the environmentalists leap into battle mode and almost always win.

Add to this discussion something I expand on in Climate Cult: the term ‘ecosystem’ was coined by a disciple of Karl Marx.

A loyal friend of Marx, Edwin Lankester, was a professor at University College, London. Lankester, an ardent communist, described mankind as the “insurgent son” of nature. He, like Marx, believed capitalism was incompatible with the environment. Lankester’s star pupil was Arthur Tansley, an imminent botanist, who stated “the destructive activities of the modern world” could be crushed by employing ecology. “Ecology,” he said, “must be applied to conditions brought about by human activity.” To do this, he coined the term ‘ecosystem,’ which could describe anything from a puddle to an ocean.

Marx, Lankester, and Tansley birthed the junk-science philosophy that influences the modern environmental movement. Everything can be blamed on free market capitalism.

Now back to California, a state being ruined in the name of ecosystems. The last dam to be constructed in the state was the New Melones Reservoir in 1980. That year the population in California was 28 million. There are now 40 million residents. Since 1980 over 150 dams of all sizes have been torn down in California, always in the name of protecting an ecosystem. California desperately needs water.

The most significant destruction of dams has been in the northern part of the state in the Trinity and Klamath River basins.

The Trinity River dams in Northern California, provide invaluable water—and electricity—to the agricultural community in California’s Great Valley.  The dams in question, the Trinity and Lewiston, were completed in 1963, creating one of the largest bodies of water in California.  With 90 percent of the Trinity River basin’s runoff able to be stored and diverted for use in other parts of the state, these dams became a key component of the Central Valley [Water] Project (CVP).  Through a brilliant series of dams, tunnels, canals, and reservoirs, the CVP harnesses waters from the Trinity, Sacramento, and San Joaquin River watersheds to irrigate farmland throughout California’s enormous Great Central Valley.   Besides irrigation, the vast system supplies drinking water to 30 million people and generates hydroelectricity at nine power stations.

However, for years environmentalists, ever scheming to retard development, destroy the agriculture, and reduce population growth in California, sought ways to cut off the flow of water from those dams.  Finally, in 1984, their incessant lobbying began to pay off as they convinced a Democratic-led House and a moderate Republican Senate to send a bill to President Ronald Reagan, which he signed, mandating $35.4 million be used supposedly to “restore fish and wildlife” and save the salmon along the 112-mile-long Trinity River. The “Trinity River Basin Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act” was the first slip down the proverbial slippery slope.  The Act decreased the amount of water supplied to the CVP from 90 percent of the basin’s runoff to 75 percent.
Next came the Clinton-Gore White House and their Interior Secretary, Bruce Babbit who conducted what he called a “Sledgehammer Tour” of California’s dams; he actually visited the dams in his crosshairs with a sledgehammer in his hands.

“America overshot the mark in our dam building frenzy,” he said in a 1998 speech to the Ecological Society of America. “For most of this century, politicians have eagerly rushed in, amidst cheering crowds, to claim credit for the construction of 75,000 dams all across America. Think about that number. That means we have been building, on average, one large dam a day, every single day, since the Declaration of Independence. Many of these dams have become monuments, expected to last forever. You could say forever just got a lot shorter.”

Immediately Babbitt unilaterally instituted a plan to further decrease the water flowing into the CVP to 52 percent, with the goal if eventually reducing the discharge to 25 percent.

Babbit’s mission was eventually handed over to Governor Newsom in 2019. A year before, plans to destroy the Klamath River dam system were released by American Rivers, a radical non-profit which claimed, “up to 85% of the dams in this country are unnecessary, harmful and even dangerous.” The removal of seven dams, built over 100-years ago, was sold as necessary to “save the salmon.” $250 Million was provided by a water bond approved by voters in 2015 to drain the reservoirs, even though the initiative was aimed at “increasing the supply of clean, safe, and reliable water and restoring habitat”—not the destruction of dams and the draining of giant reservoirs, which has now finally occurred.

The result is a monumental human-caused environmental disaster.

In January 2024, the Klamath River dams were unplugged, allowing millions of tons of polluted sediments formerly deposited on the lake bottoms to spew forth, killing virtually all life in its path. The massive samples of sediment contain high levels of heavy metals including chromium, aluminum, arsenic and lead.  Adding to this tragedy is the fact that this sediment was supposed to have been removed before the floodgates were opened. Somewhere along the line, the $450 million set aside to remove the toxic sediment was deemed either too expensive or not crucial.

You see, when sediments are disturbed, concentrated pollutants can form a deadly cocktail for all forms of life. 

The very idiots who claimed the salmon were endangered virtually killed all the salmon in the Klamath River.

President Trump is moving in the proper direction. Eco-tyranny is ruining California and too many other states. Finally, we have a White House administration that sees this as a major plank in Making America Great Again.