Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promised “more water than you ever saw” to Californians, partly by tapping resources from a Canadian river.
“You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down and they essentially have a very large faucet,” Trump said on Friday.
Trump was holding a press conference at a golf club he owns near Los Angeles.
“You turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it, and it’s massive, it’s as big as the wall of that building right there behind you. You turn that, and all of that water aimlessly goes into the Pacific (Ocean), and if you turned that back, all of that water would come right down here and into Los Angeles,” he said.
Tricia Stadnyk, an environmental engineering professor at the University of Calgary who has researched continental water …