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Why Trump Keeps Blaming the Delta Smelt for California’s Water Woes—and What It Could Mean for Endangered Species
It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in northern California, where it depends on …