by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-November-29%2C-2024.pdf Published weekly since July, 2014 Now published monthly, beginning November, 2024 An archive of all these weekly reports can be found at both links below: http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDroughtUpdate A Note to Readers Welcome, my friends, to the first report of my change from a weekly publication to…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-17%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers First, My Annoucement: For personal reasons this will be the last report I will do on a weekly schedule. Though I will, periodically, perhaps monthly, continue to publish this report. For I cannot completely…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-10C%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers A theme I have often used in these reports is how our national and some state leaders possessed the determination and vision to accomplish great projects, mobilize and inspire the American people with great…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert https://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-10AB%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers A theme I have often used in these reports is how our national and some state leaders possessed the determination and vision to accomplish great projects, mobilize and inspire the American people with great…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert https://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-10A%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers A theme I have often used in these reports is how our national and some state leaders possessed the determination and vision to accomplish great projects, mobilize and inspire the American people with great…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-October-4%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers News is a little scarce this week, so the report will be brief. Some have labelled the past week in the state as a Second Summer. Temperatures have been in the 90s through much…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-September-26%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers California is drying out, slowly, but markedly. While the U.S. Drought Monitor map for this week shows only11% of the state at some level of drought condition, and an expected La Nina winter may…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert https://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-September-19%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers This week’s report provides more coverage of the battles now ongoing in California’s “Water Wars.” But that follows this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor map and summary. One court decision found that the California State…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-September-12%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers Following this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor for California, we have a 35 minute video: “California is about to dump 114 billion gallons of water into the ocean.” While that is the headline grabbing attention-getter,…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert https://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-September-5%2C-2024.pdf A Note to Readers This week’s report heavily focuses on the Delta Conveyance Project, promoted and sponsored by the State Water Resources Control Board. Advocated for decades, since the first term of Governor Jerry Brown more than 40…
