It’s massive, the size of a large wall and takes a whole day to turn. That’s how former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump described a “very large faucet” that he hopes will redirect water from Canada down into California. “You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north, with the snow caps and Canada, all pouring down,” Trump said at a press conference in California on Friday. … Could California take Canada’s water? Short answer is no, at least according to Ralph Pentland, who was Canada’s director of water planning and management for 13 years from 1978 to 1991.

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