www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210325-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?
“Regardless of whether next Winter is a wet one, merely breaking the current drought for a time will do nothing to alleviate California’s larger problem: that, even without drought, there is not enough water available to the water-management system of the state to sustain its current population, not to mention another 20 million people who will live there by 2050.”
A Note To Readers
We begin this week’s report with excerpts from a book review I wrote in 2014 on the subject of climate change in the southwest states over the past few thousand years, which, to summarize, has been an era of periodic mega-droughts and mega-floods. And, this will surprise many, that the past 150 years has been an era of wettest period over these last few thousand years.
Then some current reports on the still continuing present drought, which as we have reported here for the past several weeks, appears to be the early years of a new mega-drought.
The response of government agencies and water managers, especially as water use restrictions are already beginning, rounds out the report this week.
Finally, our feature this week presents two articles: The first is a primer on nuclear power and the absolute necessity of new renaissance of building those facilities. Secondly, is an article on the water cycle and its relationship to the proposed North American Water and Power Alliance project we have been covering in recent reports here.
