"More than a year ago, Fresno County farmer Wayne Western Jr. penned a letter to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, pleading for help.

Western said the federal government was mismanaging California’s water supply with unjustified environmental restrictions, and that San Joaquin Valley farms such as his might dry up and go out of business without assistance from Washington.

Trump replied with a handwritten note of his own, a pledge: “Got it – crazy. If I win, it will be corrected quickly.”

So how easy would it be for now President-elect Trump to upend water policy in California, sending more water to farms and less to the environment?"

Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler report for the Sacramento Bee November 19, 2016. [2]