by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-November-29%2C-2024.pdf
Published weekly since July, 2014
Now published monthly, beginning November, 2024
An archive of all these weekly reports can be found at both links below:
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org
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A Note to Readers
Welcome, my friends, to the first report of my change from a weekly publication to now monthly. As I wrote in my last weekly report in October, the schedule change will also mean a content change. Rather than attempting to “keep up” with water and infrastructure news, I will now provide a variety of items that I think will engage readers in more in-depth, and perhaps unique coverage, of both California policies, history and background, as well as material I think will, among other purposes, provide examples of what great leadership from the past and present looks like.
Any significant current news and developments, of course, I will also cover. For example, some significant developments of droughts and floods, important political developments affecting the broad area of economic policy, and other topics I may find to be of importance.
This shall be a “work in progress” and will be subject to other changes.
This week, the main topic shall be the U.S. presidential election, and the potentially significant developments and reactions to, I think, the welcome return of Donald Trump to the Presidency.
But, as the last couple months has seen both very destructive hurricanes in the east and record amounts of rain, and some snow, in California, Oregon and Washington states, the first item this week will be how real leadership in the 1930s dealt with such climate disasters.
The last item in this month’s report, under the title, “In Real News,” features this article: “Half of U.S. at risk for blackouts during extreme cold this winter, grid watchdog warns.”
