Justices with the 5th District Court of Appeal peppered attorneys with questions about the application of state water law and the fight over Kern River flows during arguments in Fresno on Thursday.

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“In the big picture, the amount of water was not huge. It was the process. He (President Trump) has no idea how bad he effed up.”

Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it virtually impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California fires.

Water managers were relieved after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision to dump massive amounts of water from Kaweah and Success lakes.

“The Wonderful Company uses less than 1% of the state’s water,” wrote Seth Oster, a Wonderful spokesman, in an email. The company put out a thread on “X” in response to the swirl of social media falsities.