(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230427-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
I call the readers attention to the Feature this week. It is a report I wrote in and presented to several audiences in 2013: “The Fight to Build the Grand Coulee Dam and the Economic Revolution that Transformed the Nation.”
The links to the full report and the video are included, and what is presented below are a few pages of excerpts from it.
Here is the introduction I wrote for those excerpts:
“First, great projects like building the Grand Coulee Dam and the California Central Valley Project, completely transformed entire regions of the country. For the Northwest, at the time, the Grand Coulee Dam was the largest man-made structure in the world. It provided electricity to the entire Northwest, and created an entirely new economy, uplifting millions of people and was a crucial element of the ability of the U.S. to fight World War II.
“Secondly, it is through such great projects of water infrastructure, and others like the Apollo Project that put the first man on the Moon, that the population generally, and the younger generation, especially, can see a future that is an alternative to the “no future” that youth are faced with today.
“And, of course, the Western states need for such great projects has always been what should have been continued over the last 50 years. For, in the 1960s, those who built such projects as the magnificent California Water Management System, Grand Coulee Dam, the Tennessee Valley Project, and more, did plan the next set of such projects, but the leadership and the nation changed, and such visionaries faded away as we have been subjected to those who favor depopulation and the pagan worship of ‘mother earth.’”
The rest of this week’s report
The drought in California continues to fade away, as can be seen in this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor map, below.
With warmer weather the massive snowpack in the Sierras is beginning to melt, threatening more flooding in especially the Central Valley.
The damage already from the flooding is extensive and estimates put the monetary damage at billions of dollars. A couple of examples are in this report.
On the Colorado River there is some relief from the declining Lake Mead and Lake Powell, with both expected to rise as much as 100 feet from the ample snowpack in the Rockies. This provides som breathing room for the urgency of the still necessary reduction of withdraws from the river and reservoirs. May 20 is still the date that the Department of the Interior will release its policy on how the cutbacks in withdraws will be apportioned between the seven states of the Colorado River Basin.
Before the Feature I include this article from LaRouchePAC: The Real Censorship: Why Don’t You Know About Trump’s “Agenda 47”? by my colleague Susan Kokinda. In summary, she contrasts Donald Trump’s multiple releases under the title of “Agenda47” on what his presidency will be beginning in 2025, in contrast to that of Biden’s attempt to induce a fear-ridden population to continue the destructive policies we have already experienced for two years.
An excerpt from her article is here:
“Donald Trump, instead, addresses the American people as builders and as citizens of a great Republic, with all the responsibilities that that demands. He is challenging the People to reach higher than they might even believe possible. When he says that he wants to “take a sledgehammer to globalism,” he is promising something that goes beyond mere opposition to the imperial system. He is ready to replaceit–and the citizenry’s acceptance of that challenge will determine whether we have the moral fitness to survive.
“That challenge is most evident in his March 3 proposal to “create a quantum leap that revolutionizes the American standard of living,” by building ten new “Freedom Cities,” offering baby bonuses, reviving our manufacturing, and unleashing new technologies. It appears that LaRouchePAC is largely alone in understanding Trump’s intention, and in recruiting Americans to that Promethean identity.”
