(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230629-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
While the drought in California is mostly gone, it is the Mid-West that now suffers. Oregon and Washington, too, have drought with the Oregon governor announcing this week that another county is in a drought emergency.
Meanwhile, California has full reservoirs and the ancient lake that reappeared in the Central Valley, Tulare Lake, due to a cool spring and some action by the state is beginning to recede.
Three bills in the legislature to give the water board more authority to cut off water supplies are still going forward. A grape farmer contributes his comments on it in an article below.
The news on the Colorado River crisis continues to be scarce, but we do have one item on the rising level of Lake Mead this Spring, which is not expected to provide more than a little breathing room.
The final item that leads into the Feature this week is “Electricity Shortages or a Solution.”
“California, with its “clean energy” fixation is about to have a heat wave, and there are worries that the electricity supply will once again fail, at least partially. But, tell that to those families which are the ones that get cut off.”
The Feature is on the Nuclear Renaissance that is underway, even under Biden.
