(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-4%2C-2024.pdf
A Note to Readers
News is a little scarce this week, so the report will be brief.
Some have labelled the past week in the state as a Second Summer. Temperatures have been in the 90s through much of the state, even the Bay Area.
As mentioned last week, high temperatures, no precipitation, and with the potential of the Santa Anna and Diablo winds, the fire danger remains very high, and will remain so until the first rains. Unless the new La Nina kicks off another winter of drought.
Look at the U.S. Drought Monitor map with that thought in mind.
Edward Ring, always one with both knowledge and insight has a column this week in which he explains how incompetent the bureaucrats who run the state water agencies are, why and what is required to fix the problem.
He does name the California Department of Fish & Wildlife to be the “worst of the worse,” and does tell us his reasons.
Perhaps some have learned or reformed, though: “State and federal officials have decided to curtail additional water flows intended to support endangered fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta this fall.”
Periodically, I run as the week’s Feature one of the columns written by of my colleague, Michael Carr. This week his column is titled, “Our Future: We’ll Crank Out Nuclear Reactors Like Automobiles, Made in USA.”
He summarizes the piece this way, “Today’s report features the first assembly line now being built for small modular reactors in Texas, some interesting video clips of agricultural automation, and several items that make clear the necessity of implementing President Trump’s further plans for tariffs.”
More from his report:
“Why we need to go nuclear: at the grand opening of the world’s first nuclear power plant assembly line, Aalo CEO Matt Loszak points out that nuclear fission is 2,000,000 times more energy dense, and supply will last 10,000,000 times longer than oil and gas.”
