That is pure fiction.’ Los Angeles takes most of its water not from the delta but from the Owens Valley (Payahuunadü, the ...

The crux of this transport system is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a sensitive marshland region where two of the state’s ...

such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which seeks to minimize water infrastructure to protect certain fish species, such as the Delta smelt. The order comes just weeks after Trump accused Gov.

such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which seeks to minimize water infrastructure to protect certain fish species, such as the Delta smelt. The order comes just weeks after Trump accused Gov.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to allow federal agencies to override state policies to maximize water amid the Los Angeles wildfires.

The president's executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won't do anything to fight wildfires.

The order blames the “catastrophic halt” of water due to protections for the delta smelt, a small endangered creature that Trump recently called an “essentially worthless fish.” ...

But there’s one much lesser-known party that he has also targeted: a tiny fish called the delta smelt. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt,” Trump wrote on Truth Social ...

CLAIM: Newsom says California's smelt fish policy did not lead to L.A.-area ... has ample water supply but a lack of rain in the region dried out vegetation. Combined with extreme winds, the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 — Donald Trump has derided the Delta smelt as a “worthless fish,” blaming efforts to protect the species for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires on social media, in a press ...

But the fixation on a tiny fish is less about facts and more about the politics of “us versus them,” said Caleb Scoville, a sociology professor at Tufts University writing on a book about the politics ...

US President Donald Trump recently derided a fish called the Delta smelt as a "worthless fish," and blamed efforts to save the species for the devastating Los Angeles fires that have destroyed ...