There are two major problems with Trump’s order, water experts said: The water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.

A Southern California Democrat blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering a release of water in the state’s Central Valley, describing the move as both wasteful and destructive to the

Donald Trumps' Army Corps of Engineers abruptly released more than 2.2 billion gallons of water from California's Lake Kaweah and Lake Success.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released water from two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada to meet President Donald Trump’s recent directive to funnel more water to Southern California, but some officials there question whether it will actually prove helpful.

President Trump’s order to release billions of gallons of water in California’s Central Valley last week — with the purported goal of dousing fires 100 miles away — is being slammed as both ineffective and wasteful by experts and California lawmakers.

Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent reference to the move,

Chris Hayes explains how Trump's obsession with California's water supply, which led him to order the opening of dams, will do little to help L.A. fire victims.

Trump wanted to see water flowing out of a California reservoir, so it did. Problem is, it didn't really help L.A. or farmers.