(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
A Note to Readers
And it is another week of rain, snow, blizzards and probably more flooding in California. The drought is dead in California. But, like the walking dead, it will return to torture us some more. When? The past 20 years should give us some idea. The breaks from two decades of frequent droughts have been at the most two years. This is the second year now being mostly free of drought.
We begin the report with weather news, forecasts and warnings.
Then the March 1 measurement of the snowpack shows that the month of February has ended the snowdrought, at least for now.
Next, this article does make the argument stated in the headline, but other factors that delay the building of infrastructure are also at work. “Where did the water go? ‘Environmental lawsuits have had a very chilling effect’ on CA water resiliency efforts.”
What actually is the condition of California’s infrastructure? “The Failure of the New Age, Deregulated, Speculative Economy,” provides some preliminary discussion of the question, using a new report from the Los Angeles Times published this week.
Here is a brief excerpt from the report, “The High Cost of Underinvestment: Assessing the State of Infrastructure in Southern California.” published this week by the Los Angeles Times. Next week I will give further coverage of this report.
Given that EVs depend upon government subsidies to be able to induce people and even governments to buy them, it is not a surprise to see this report: “Jurupa Valley bus factory shuts, 425 jobs lost, latest victim of green-vehicle slump.”
Finally, we have an update on the tech-billionaires attempted takeover of Solano Valley. The most thorough article yet, makes clear that the parasites are promising hundreds of billions, but as one official stated, promises are not enforceable.
