by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20220623-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
Following the U.S. Drought Monitor, this week’s report begins with my new article published on the LaRouche PAC website, “The Western States Megadrought is About to Blow Up the Nation’s Food Supply .”
That is followed by a more comprehensive report on the real physical economy of the nation by my colleague Brian Lantz: “Using National Banking to Secure Our Food Supply.”
Next some background on the climatic conditions of the Southwestern states, demonstrating that the past 150 years have been the wettest during the past more than 1000 years which were much drier,with megadroughts lasting hundreds of years. The paleoclimatologist authors of the study hypothesize that perhaps the western states climate is returning to that more characteristic climate, rather than the present drought being something unprecedented.
A region that generally gets little coverage is that of the Klamath River Basin, located on the Oregon-California border. Yet, for the past few years, the impact of the drought has devastated the regions farmers, ranchers and Native American tribes. A few recent articles highlight the crisis in the region.
In addition to the coverage of the developments on the Colorado River in my article, additional developments are reported in the next section.
The report concludes with a very thorough article on the potential for reversing the decision to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant from the British publication The Guardian.
