“Every Member of Congress, everyone in the executive branch from the President on, in the field of national resources, has to plan during their period of administration or office for the next generation, because no project that we plan today will be beneficial to us. Anything we begin today, is for those who come after us. And just as those who began something years ago make it possible for us to be here, I hope we’ll fulfill our responsibility to the next generation that’s going to follow us.”
—John F. Kennedy,Pueblo, CO August 17th, 1962
A Note To Readers
President John F. Kennedy consciously understood, and stated, that his Apollo Project to land on the Moon with astronauts and to return them safely to the Earth within the decade of the 1960s, went hand in hand with building the nation’s infrastructure that was required for an economy that would accomplish that mission, and beyond that, to Mars.
Thus, like President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kennedy was a builder. He launched, especially in the West, one water project after another.
Our Feature this week begins to tell that story.
In the rest of this week’s report:
As not only in the West, but throughout the country, between May, 2018 and April, 2019, were the wettest year-long period in U.S. history.
The exception is Washington and Oregon, where warm and dry conditions in the Pacific Northwest, in which drought conditions cover areas of western Washington including the Olympic Mountains (that includes the Olympic Rainforest!).
Snowpack in the Sierras is at 202 percent of average for early May. Flooding in the Midwest has been a disaster and has resulted in the slowest pace of planting in at least the past 40 years.
So our first report is on the California snowpack.
Then we have a “Useful Map,” which, for those unfamiliar with the California water management system, presents all of the projects in that system. A reminder: This system is the largest and most complex water management system in the world.
The Oroville Dam Update this week continues to refute the hysteria promoted by some that the dam and the new spillways are about to collapse.
The Colorado River Update includes three items, two of which focus on this year’s abundant snow and snowpack, alleviating, for now, the potential crisis of the low levels of the water in the two reservoirs– Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The third item is some history on the building of Hoover Dam.
Under the title, “Some Sobering News About the Financial System and Economy,” we report on the Fed ready to begin another bout of Quantitative Easing– that is pumping more money into the speculative bubble, while the real economy is showing symptoms of decay.
What follows that is a short item which I have titled, “Ever Wonder Why All the Media Sound and Look the Same?” I could have added, “and are all in a chorus on global warming.”
“Project Artemis Generation to the Moon and Beyond” is an article from LaRouche PAC which explores the implications of the Project Artemis project to return to the Moon to stay.
Our final item is our Feature, “President John F. Kennedy– The Apollo Project to the Moon and Western Water Development.”
