Top Storyformulanone/Flickr The biggest potential water disaster in the United States In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.
Impacts www.politico.com Trump bashes California leaders during Bakersfield visit to celebrate new water rules Trump basked in the cheers from 2,000 supporters in an airplane hangar on the outskirts of the agriculture- and oil-focused city.
Impacts Trump administration moves to lift protections for fish and divert water to farms The Trump administration has moved to weaken protections for a threatened California fish, a change that would allow water to be diverted from the San Francisco Bay Delta to irrigate arid farmland and could harm the region's fragile ecosystem.
Impacts www.theguardian.com These six species are about to be sacrificed for the oil and gas industry Republican-led changes to the Endangered Species Act put plants and animals across America at risk.
Politics undark.org In the fate of the Delta smelt, warnings of conservation gone wrong Many ecologists consider the fish's disappearance a sign that both the local ecosystem, and the nation's approach to conservation, are in crisis.
