Trump's talk of a Canadian "faucet" has Columbia River Basin residents on edge

Trump's talk of a Canadian "faucet" has Columbia River Basin residents on edge

The September backdrop was drought and the 2024 California wildfires. The location was Donald Trump’s expensive Los Angeles golf course. The words uttered by the Republican presidential candidate were that the Columbia River Basin was “essentially a very large faucet” and if all that water was diverted from the Pacific Ocean, “all of that water would come ... right into Los Angeles.”