www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20211014-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1634328451
“When understood properly, infrastructure can be the secret to unlimited economic growth. However, Washington DC doesn’t understand much of anything these days. The Biden collective’s so-called ‘infrastructure bill’ is not about infrastructure, it is cover for pushing their “Green New Deal” and globalist World Economic Forum policies—a fast track program to destroy the US economy. What’s needed is a serious infrastructure program, focused on new, transformative infrastructure systems which uplift the entire economy to higher levels of productive potential. Historically, this approach has been central to the rise of the United States, and it’s indispensable today for getting the US out of the present economic mess.”
A Note to Readers
We begin this report with two videos. The first is a presentation by my associate Ben Deniston, summarized here:
“When understood properly, infrastructure can be the secret to unlimited economic growth. However, Washington DC doesn’t understand much of anything these days. The Biden collective’s so-called ‘infrastructure bill’ is not about infrastructure, it is cover for pushing their “Green New Deal” and globalist World Economic Forum policies—a fast track program to destroy the US economy. What’s needed is a serious infrastructure program, focused on new, transformative infrastructure systems which uplift the entire economy to higher levels of productive potential. Historically, this approach has been central to the rise of the United States, and it’s indispensable today for getting the US out of the present economic mess.”
That is followed by a presentation and discussion led by Robert Ingraham on the upcoming COP26 Halloween conference to, in the words of the Davos bankers organizers of the conference “to enforce the decarbonization of every nation.”
In the rest of this week’s report:
The U.S. Drought Monitor this week shows little change throughout the West and California.
Discussion of the drought, the worst California drought in 1200 years includes two article: “The drought in California this summer was the worst on record” and “Atmospheric Rivers Left California Mostly Dry in Water Year 2021.”
Foretelling the potential future, the forecast for the winter is another winter of very little rain and snow. And with a 70% forecast of already emerging La Nina, which generally means winter precipitation moves north to Oregon and Washington, leaving California with very little.
This article, next in line, “Central Valley Project begins 2022 water year with 3.21 million acre-feet of storage,” provides a useful demonstration, showing that the Central Valley Project reservoirs are at about one-half of the level they were last October 1, and at about 25% of their capacity. October 1 each year marks the beginning of the new water year.
With the drought emptying reservoirs throughout the West, the generation of hydro-power has been severely reduced. This article, next in line, “Hydropower decline adds strain to power grids in drought,” gives a good summary of the problem.
An untoward consequence of the drought and the demand for conservation and water use cutbacks is especially seen in Southern California, where the water districts, selling less water, are raising their rates, rewarding customers with higher prices for using less water.
Remember the Delta Smelt, which water managers and the fisheries and wildlife officials in Sacramento attempted to prevent from going extinct, and shut off the pumps sending water from the Delta to the aqueducts of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project? Well, it appears that the one inch bait fish has defied them and has already gone extinct, as not one of them has been caught, for five years running now, by the same officials spending weeks trolling the Delta trying to catch at least one of them.
The eruption of a major wildfire near Santa Barbara early this week underlines the fact that the fire season is still at its peak. California wildfires have scorched nearly 3,900 square miles (10,101 square kilometers) this year and destroyed more than 3,600 homes, businesses and other structures, according to the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. A second article in this section underlines this: “Get ready for more wind, fires, blackouts.”
We also have three more articles in this section. The first compares the acreage burned yearly by year since 2010. The second is just the first few paragraphs of an excellent article by a man who has 25 years of experience in managing forests: “Wildfires: Separating Demagoguery from the Science.” The third is from Royal Burnett, a veteran fire fighter, who again takes on the mismanagement of the US. Forest Service: “We’re going to have to destroy this village in order to save it”
This week’s report concludes with a few paragraphs of Michael Shellenberger’s article, “Nations Go Nuclear As Prices Spike & Renewables Fail.”
