California Drought Update for July 14, 2016
http://amatterofmind.org/ca-drought-pdf/20160714%20California%20Drought%20Update.pdf
“Here we go again” shall be the subject of this week’s report.
The California Natural Resources Agency this week announced a “Delta Smelt Resiliency Strategy,”
which calls into action everyone but the National Guard. In fact, I am surprised they did not call out
the Marines. See the report below for more.
In response, as more water is to be sent through the Delta, agricultural interests are complaining and
suing.
In other words, we have the same game with some different players and a new deck of cards– mostly
made up of jokers.
Our second rerun this week is the never ending “does she or doesn’t she?,” or, in this case, “will she or
won’t she,” ever built the reservoirs at Temperance Flat and Sites?
Last year there were many stories on how pot growers were wrecking environmental havoc by
diverting streamflow and leaving chemicals all over the place. With pot legalization in California on
the ballot in November, a new state law to regulate pot growers is now in place. You will love the new
bureaucracy this law has created.
Finally, in our news section, just like last year, Oregon and Washington State join California in
experiencing a fifth year of drought.
The feature this week brings us to the point I have often made, that there is no solution to the California
water crisis to be found within the state, but only by a top-down reorganization of the economy and a
return to a policy of physical economy.
