(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231116-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Following this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor’s map for California, is an article on California water storage, highlighting the fight to raise Shasta Dam. The Sites Reservoir, almost fully approved now, has been put on…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231109-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Accompanying the U.S. Drought Monitor map for California this week is one of many articles celebrating that for the first time in three years the state is now drought-free. Of course, that pretty much…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231102-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Accompanying the U.S. Drought Monitor map for California this week is one of many articles celebrating that for the first time in three years the state is now drought-free. Of course, that pretty much…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231102-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Please excuse this rather perfunctory introduction. But time presses this evening. We begin with the U.S. Drought Monitor map of California, and find little change from the previous week. Then my “Mea Culpa” in…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231026-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers A smorgasbord of topics grace this week’s report. Following the U.S. Drought Monitor map for California, which does show virtually no area of the state presently in drought, we have an example of how…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231019-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers This week’s report takes on the ignorance, cowardliness, and insanity that has, for the past 50 years, characterizes the thinking and policy in regard to the economy, banking and the building of infrastructure among…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231012-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers A few items this week following the U.S. Drought Monitor map. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation forecast for the coming California winter is that it will be wet. Once again demonstrating the California grows…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231005-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers In Oakland today, the temperature is at or near 90 degrees. That is about 20 degrees above the normal temperature for October. Though it is expected to begin to return to “normal” temperatures over…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230928-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Because of computer problems, the introduction will be brief. The U.S. Drought Monitor if followed by more on the topic of drought, floods, weather and climate. Then a report on Grasshoppers wreaking havoc, destroying…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230921-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The U.S Drought Monitor for California this week shows that drought in California continues to be absent in the state, a far cry from most September’s during most years for the past two decades….
