For months, Sacramento County has been advancing a 25,000-resident community north of downtown in Natomas without a confirmed water supply. Its new solution is a supply that was slashed by 82% in the last drought. … Upper Westside’s new proposed water supplier is the Natomas Central Mutual Water Company, a long-time provider of untreated Sacramento River water to Natomas farmers. The company gets its water from Shasta Dam and the Central Valley Project (CVP), run by the federal Bureau of Reclamation. … This is where Trump (and future presidents with similar California water politics) comes in. Trump has vowed to provide more “beautiful” water to Central Valley water. That’s impossible to do without aggressively operating Shasta.
–Written by Sacramento Bee columnist Tom Philp.