There is a school of thought that the 2.2 billion gallons of water that President Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to release last week that flowed from the Lake Kaweah and Lake Success reservoirs was wasted. There is another school that contends Gov. Gavin Newsom was caving into Trump’s misconceptions regarding how California manages its water by his own order to divert into storage excessive flows generated by the current atmospheric river events drenching Northern California.