Citing the Los Angeles fires, Trump directed federal agencies to "immediately take actions to override" water operations and ...

Citing the LA fires, Trump directed federal agencies to “immediately take actions to override” water operations and ...

Citing the LA fires, Trump directed agencies to "immediately take actions to override" water operations and environmental rules. But the water mostly serves Central Valley farms.

But they appear to have Trump’s ear. And he’s using their long-standing water complaints to feed a narrative of failed ...

Bourdeau, the Harris Farms executive, sits on its board of directors. “The surface water from the Central Valley Project is our lifeblood,” said Allison Febbo, the district’s general manager.

The president’s latest executive order signed Sunday wants to bypass environmental protections and boost water infrastructure projects.

Typically Republican and clustered in the vast Central Valley, they’ve long fought Democrat ... saying state officials shortchange farms to protect fish. They power California’s $59 billion ...

The White House released an executive order signed by President Donald Trump Sunday to secure additional water supplies for the Central Valley agriculture industry by reverting to regulations in ...

In the new order, Trump cited the Los Angeles fires, even though the actions he is ordering — delivering more water from the federal Central Valley Project — would primarily serve farms.

Instead, his attempt to relax water restrictions would move more water to large farms in the state’s sparsely populated Central Valley, a longtime pet issue for the president, who attempted a ...