A Trump executive order directs agencies to “to route more water” across the state. But pumping water out of the Delta has already proven disastrous.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will issue an executive order to increase the availability of water in California, following disastrous wildfires that recently tore through several Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Among President Donald Trump's first executive orders issued on Monday was one directing that a plan be implemented to deliver more water from northern California to the central and southern parts of the state.