President Trump calls for more water to Central Valley and other parts of state

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Just hours backmost successful the Oval Office, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum calling connected national agencies to travel up with a program to nonstop much h2o from the San Joaquin Delta to the Central Valley and confederate California.

In the memorandum titled "Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California," President Trump directed the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Interior to travel up with a program wrong the adjacent 90 days to alteration regulations to assistance way much h2o from the San Joaquin Delta to the Central Valley and confederate California.

The president issued a akin bid backmost successful his archetypal word but stalled aft ineligible challenges by the authorities implicit biology concerns.

Valley Congressman Vince Fong says this determination is impervious that Trump is present to assistance California.

“I mean, this is what President Trump is doing; he's taking enactment connected time one, I mean, this contented is truthful important for him that connected his connected his archetypal time aft being sworn successful arsenic president, United States, helium is taking enactment connected California's h2o policy," said Fong.

Democratic Valley Congressman Jim Costa says helium believes the solution won't travel with 1 action.

“There's nary 1 magic solution I deliberation frankly hopefully we've learned immoderate lessons and I deliberation we request to enactment together,” said Costa.

CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau Ryan Jacobsen says the existent mode of doing things is lone hurting farmers.

“What we are doing is presently not moving we request to reexamine the strategy we recognize we person to support taxon astatine the aforesaid clip we wanna spot amended h2o allocations truthful I'm hopeful we are going to spot a much holistic attack than we person seen implicit the past fewer years," said Jacobsen.

It's not wide whether the authorities intends to situation this enactment by the memorandum.