Reinstate the Presidential Memorandum on water supply in the West

What has happened

1. Jan 20, 2025 Partially done

   The Presidential Memorandum "Putting People Over Fish" directs the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior "to immediately restart the work from my first Administration by the National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and other agencies to route more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state", with a ninety-day progress report. That revives the first-term water program, but only its California half: the 2018 memorandum the Quote names covered the Central Valley, Klamath and Columbia River basins, and no instrument found in the window reinstates it by name. Executive Order 14181, signed four days later, added emergency water measures for California, and Interior reported more than 200,000 acre-feet of additional Central Valley Project water within a year of it.

   • Presidential Memorandum: Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism To Provide Water to Southern California

     Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025

   • Executive Order 14181, “Emergency Measures To Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas”

     Primary Executive branch Jan 24, 2025

   • Interior press release: Interior Advances President Trump's Executive Order 14181 Priorities — more than 200,000 acre-feet of additional Central Valley Project water in one year

     Primary Executive branch Jan 23, 2026