Donald Trump claims B.C.’s ‘very large faucet’ could help California’s water woes

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced an idea late last week to help alleviate California water shortages — and it involves British Columbia. “So you have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps in Canada and all pouring down,” Trump said at a press conference at his Los Angeles golf course. “And they have essentially a very large faucet. And you turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it. It’s massive.”
Werner Antweiler with the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business said Trump’s idea is actually not a new one. “The idea seems to be in the heads of people that Canada has all this wonderful water,” he said. “Can we not just get it down to where we need it, where we have drought conditions, as in California? But of course, the business logic is that it’s all way too expensive to do so, and there’s just no realistic business model for that.” Antweiler said there is a treaty that exists between B.C. and the U.S., which is called the Columbia River Treaty.“That actually regulates how much water is flowing across the border and what it’s going to be used for,” he added. Source:globalnews.ca/