by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20220310-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1647107022
A Note to Readers
Last week the report provided articles that highlighted the extreme nature of the western drought, which is actually a megadrought. Here is a link to that report:
California Water and Infrastructure Report For March 3, 2022
A more detailed series of articles makes up the report this week. Which includes articles on the state of the drought in Washington and Oregon and the Klamath River in northern California.
Included also is a graphic illustrating that the reservoirs in California are even lower at this date than they were last year.
The Colorado River continues to suffer a declining flow of water and Lake Powell, behind the Glen Canyon Dam, and the second largest reservoir in the U.S., has reached a critical threshold level.
This week’s Feature is a re-posting of an article from one year ago by my colleague Ben Deniston: “A Builders Party & NAWAPA Could Fix the West’s Drought.”
To provide an introduction to Ben’s article, here are a couple of paragraphs:
“Jobs, per se, don’t create economic value. A higher minimum wage doesn’t generate economic value. Free trade doesn’t produce economic value.
“The most developed scientific framework for understanding the source of economic growth (or decline) is that developed by Lyndon LaRouche. The value of infrastructure—such as large-scale water management, for example—is measured by its transformative effect on the productive process, according to its impact on the ability of the productive labor force to sustain a growing population at higher technological levels.”
