by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20220407-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
First links to an interview I did that is posted on the LaRouche PAC website and on You Tube.
The California and Western States Drought creates unprecedented water crisis;
Exacerbated by Biden’s Sanctions & the Climate Agenda That is Destroying the United States
By Pat Ruckert
April 04, 2022
44 minutes
Or:
A discussion with Pat Ruckert on the increasing dangers of drought and how to solve it. This discussion will be the start of a series, taking up the crisis in water, energy, and food devastating the country & the needed solutions as outlined in our LaRouchePAC policy for national banking and credit in large scale infrastructure projects.
California’s great water management system was completed 50 years ago. But the shift of the U.S. economy away from industry, space exploration, agriculture and infrastructure, to become the gambling casino economy we have today, has produced the present crisis of water shortages and mass poverty in the nation.
The California water management system, which provided abundant water for 20 million people in 1972, now has had a water shortage crisis for the past 25 years, as the population of the state is now 40 million.
The present broader Western states drought is now spreading eastward and encompasses about 60% of the land area of the U.S. A 22-year megadrought of the Colorado River basin threatens the water supply of 40 million people who depend on that river for water and electricity.
Sixty years ago great projects were proposed by the John Kennedy administration and others that would have provided the entire North American Continent with abundant water for 100 years.
This Week’s Report
This week’s report begins with the U.S. Drought Monitor, graphically demonstrating the spreading and intensifying drought through most of the nation.
Then the next two sections focus on the actions and plans by the state government and environmentalist organizations as they accelerate their war against agriculture in California.
Two articles are next on the “water wars” in California. The second one is interesting as it includes the actual sections on the EPA law that forbid the use of any water for other purposes if it would endanger “protected species.”
The next section, “The Drought Continues to Spread and Intensify,” includes reports from Texas, the Pacific Northwest and Idaho.
The April 1 snowpack survey found this: “the manual survey recorded just 2.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of one inch, which is four percent of average for this location for April 1. Statewide, the snowpack is just 38 percent of average for this date.”
California continues to have a policy of cutting off agriculture first. New mandates on the Central Valley and the Russian River have been announced this week.
As we have seen over the past year, droughts are cutting into California’s hydropower. Not just Oroville Dam and the two major dams on the Colorado River, but others also. The article has an excellent photo of Oroville Dam and its very dry spillway.
Fire season has arrived two months earlier this year, and the article, “California Braces for Another Cataclysmic Wildfire Season,” presents a report on the state of the land and the preparations being made by both the state and the U.S. Forest Service.
An update on the state of the Colorado River highlights the difference between what was expected in annual flow in 1922 when the river’s waters were divided between seven states and Mexico, and what the flow is today and may be tomorrow. An annual flow of 15 million acre feet(maf) of water, since 2000 is now just a little more than 12 maf, heading to 11 maf. And some fear it may fall to 9 maf.
The final item this week is our Feature, which begins with an article by my associate Robert Ingraham of LaRouche PAC, “The World Economic Forum’s Plot to Murder Detroit.” The article begins with:
On April 4, 2022, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), with as much fanfare as they could muster, issued a new report—their third report this year—announcing, yet again, the threat of “Imminent Climate Catastrophe.” In a statement accompanying the report, the IPCC demanded that, “It’s now or never,” for mandatory drastic reductions in carbon dioxide and methane gas emissions. Mentally challenged John Kerry, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, responded by declaring that the Report, “represents a defining moment for our planet.”
That is followed by two linked articles on the hysterical IPCC report and California’s latest dire forecasts that are to engulf the world because of climate change.
