http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170420-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf
A Note To Readers
Five years of drought and a winter of floods, and what shall the future be? Drought and deluge are “acts of nature,” and, at least not yet, there is little mankind can do to alter that. What mankind can do, though, is prevent or alleviate the consequences of droughts and, shall we say, excess precipitation. We have done so as a species forever. The first farmers used a stick to dig a channel to his crops. Later we used water wheels to move larger amounts of water to where it was needed. Next came dams, reservoirs, canals, aqueducts and greater and greater water projects. We tamed a river, and then an entire watershed, then created a water management system encompassing multiple watersheds, and now, as China is doing with its Move South Water North Project, we are creating a continental water management system. And if there is not enough fresh water available, we human beings then create it by desalination.
As Kraaft Ehricke said in the first of his three principles of space exploration: “Nobody and nothing under the natural laws of this universe can impose any limitations on man, except man himself.”
One week ago a two-day conference in New York City sponsored by the Schiller Institute presented exactly how the United States can and must join China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) infrastructure building project– the largest such undertaking in human history. This conference occurred just one week following the two day summit between President Trump and President Xi of China, in which the President, I am sure, received an in-depth report on how really to build infrastructure. While the Trump administration has at least a sense of what the nation requires, the Schiller Institute conference, should the President watch it, will give him the blueprint for doing so. With the keynote given by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, followed by representatives of the Chinese and Russian governments, attendees were presented with both a picture of the fight for the soul of the Trump administration, and the technical details of how the OBOR project is the center of China’s contribution of more than one-third of world economic growth today. Here are a couple of links to videos of the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUt-SNGUoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J92CqLJE0vg&feature=youtu.be
And should the President clean out his administration of the British connected traitors within it who led him to the stupid and criminal act of bombing Syria, then, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has stated more than once, Donald Trump can become one of the nation’s great Presidents.
The bulk of this week’s report has the usual drought, precipitation, snowpack and forecasts, followed by just a couple of other items.
The ongoing coverage provided here of the Oroville Dam disaster does highlight one development that demonstrates what we can do if we so desire to do it. The huge repair job is being done the way all the required infrastructure building the nation requires should be done. The bureaucratic procedures are being eliminated, the usual multiple environmental impact reports are being bypassed, everything is being streamlined and work shall begin tomorrow. The Department of Water Resources received the bids from the contractors one day, picked the winner a few days later, then awarded the contract the next day. The call for contract bids went out, came in, and were awarded all in one week. Wow!!
As the final item in this report makes clear, that without the U.S. dramatically acting to change its economic policy now, the continuing collapse of all productive economic categories will suddenly go over the edge. The continued debate and the political movement toward restoring the Glass-Steagall banking law shows that such a development is now possible.
Add to that the President’s commitment to restoring the industrial power of the U.S., as he outlined once again this week in a speech to the workers at the Snap On Tools factory in Wisconsin, tells us that that battle for the soul of the administration is alive and well. Here is the video of that speech:
