http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20180426-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
“We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We – even we here – hold the power, and bear the responsibility… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just – a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”
President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Address to Congress, December 1, 1862
A Note To Readers
Abraham Lincoln got it right, the unity of the country can only be achieved when we adopt a mission for the nation, and it is clearly presented to the American people. Lincoln’s speech, quoted above, was focused on the U.S. Civil War, which had erupted just 18 months earlier. Our task today is no less urgent than that of our greatest President. A nation can fall apart for just so long before it utterly collapses. We are near that point now as we sit on the verge of a new, even more destructive financial blow-out than that of 2008.
In This Week’s Report
The Feature this week begins with that quote from Lincoln and proceeds to introduce the American System of economics to a generation (or actually several generations) of Americans who have been denied the privilege of not just knowing that history, but living it.
Drought is the order of the day for California, and actually, much of the southwest and spreading to Texas and the mid-west. The U.S. Drought Monitor for California, though, does not show any change from the previous week, but that will not be the case going forward. Our first section below also includes a report on a study forecasting, really, what only silly environmentalists do not understand– that the climate changes, and it always has and always will.
That first section includes reports on the water and electrical supply and the announced allocations of water from both the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project.
The Oroville Dam update this week includes a construction update and reports on the legislation to remove the management of the California State Water Project from the authority of the Department of Water Resources.
Finally, the State Water Commission charged with allocating the $2.7 billion from the 2014 water bond says it has decided where the money will go. While some seemed satisfied, most of those impacted are still pissed off that the big water storage projects like Sites Reservoir and Temperance Flat project are not getting what they need in order to build.
That leads to an article reporting the unleashed anger response condemning the entire state water management bureaucracy.
Also reported on this week is a study that concludes that, “Forest Thinning Can Prevent Fires, Save Water.”
Under the title, “The Fight for a National Drive to Build Infrastructure,” the next section begins with: “Can states afford Trump’s infrastructure plan?” This section also includes items on why as the cost of solar panels and wind mills goes down, electricity prices go up, authored by Democratic Party candidate for California Governor Michael Shellenberger. It should be mentioned that no other candidate for governor, Democrat or Republican, is campaigning to build more nuclear power plants in the state.
And then this report concludes our reporting for the week: “California’s Infrastructure Deficit,” which is a succinct report on the topic.
