by Patick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20220127-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1643468711
A Note to Readers
The drought has definitely returned, though it never really went away. While the U.S. Drought Monitor shows no change from last week, we should note that 99% of the state remains in “Moderate” or “Severe” Drought.
And at the end of December, after the drenching storms, the snowpack in the Sierras was 160% of average for that date. As of this week, with a near record dry January, that number has been reduced to 106%.
Following the U.S. Drought Monitor are a series of articles highlighting the near record dry month that January has been, which is expected to continue that way into early February.
Then a report on the Colorado River and Lake Mead, which forecasts that the lake will see another 30-plus-foot drop in the next two years.
The final “news” article reports on the long-delayed beginning of construction to repair the Friant-Kern canal. The $187 million first phase of the project will restore flows to a 10-mile stretch of the canal in eastern Tulare County. Excessive groundwater pumping during California’s droughts has caused the ground beneath the canal to sink more than 13 feet — a phenomenon known as subsidence. Subsidence has restricted the waterway’s ability to carry water to farms and communities south of the chokepoint by more than half.
The Feature this week is the first three articles from LaRouche PAC of a series that focus on the creation, once again, of a national bank and credit system to replace the privately owned (by Wall St. banks) The Federal Reserve Bank (not really a bank). The first of these articles is provided here in full. The second and third articles have just the first few paragraphs here. But links to all three articles are provided. The title is: “Put the Fed Through Bankruptcy, Create the Third National Bank of the United States.”
