(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
A Note to Readers
This week’s report provides more coverage of the battles now ongoing in California’s “Water Wars.”
But that follows this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor map and summary.
One court decision found that the California State Water Board had illegally put one water district under sanctions illegally, and granted the decision to the water district. The link and excerpts from the article, “‘Unlawful regulation’: State suffers big setback in water lawsuit filed by growers,” fills out the details.
Meanwhile three new water infrastructure projects are now moving forward in actual construction, though the Sites Reservoir project did have a setback in the permitting process.
Edward Ring has another contribution in presenting projects that break the idea that California has an unsolvable water shortage problem. As does “a new study finds that the state should replenish groundwater aquifers to sustain agriculture.”
This week’s coverage of developments on the Colorado River has only a two minute video on the subject of the “What is Lake Powell and why does it matter?” Lake Powell on the river is the second largest reservoir in the United States.
In wildfire coverage this week, we report on the record breaking fire season in Oregon and Washington states.
Without a Feature this week. The report concludes with, “Physical Economy and Technology Report for September 16, 2024: What We Strive to Achieve” by my colleague Michael Carr from Promethean Action.
