www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210619-Recall-Newsom.pdf?_t=1624210343 The nation’s problem is California’s problem. And California’s problem is the nation’s problem. Only if this state has leaders who will aggressively act to lead the nation on providing the water required for today and for the next 50-100 years can any political action be meaningful and important. That…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210617-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1624059180 “Right now, Washington, DC is overflowing with bills, reports, proposals for budgets, commissions, taskforces, leveraging of departmental resources, etc., etc. At best this is an unfocussed process of throwing money at problems instead of focusing on reality and solving real problems. At worst, as in Joe Biden’s Green New…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210610-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1623363103 A Note to Readers: Due to medical reasons my weekly reports have not been written the past several weeks. And this one shall be very brief. A presentation on June 6 by my colleague Ben Deniston is the best summary of both the Western States exceptional drought that we…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210506-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1620497315 “In news articles, Ingram has summarized the last 2,000 years of the climate history of the American West, emphasizing that the current drought is the worst to hit the region in 500 years. In addition, she makes the point that, especially over this 2,000-year period, the West has experienced…
May 3, 2021 California has been unable to provide adequate water to its population and its agricultural community for three decades. Before presenting the general facts of the water availability and its use by the state, it is useful to first present a picture of the present crisis. The state’s…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210429-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1619804136 “The state’s two major water projects, the California State Water Project and the Bureau of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project, have for three decades, been unable to supply the local water district contractors, both in urban and agricultural areas, with the water they annually request. “Over the last 30 years,…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210422-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1619210457 “There is no doubt Derek Chauvin committed a crime when he killed George Floyd and he deserves a just punishment for that crime. Anyone connected to the Internet or a cable television on the face of the earth has probably seen Chauvin’s killing of George Floyd on May 25,…
“What’s missing in the “infrastructure” debate on all sides is one simple fact: we are living in a doomed financial system, dominated by the policies of the central banks, Wall Street and the City of London. Every policy put forward by JoeBama is in service to a corporatist policy aimed…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210408-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf? “And, whenever the producers have been united against the parasites of Wall Street and the City of London, the nation has made incredible leaps upward in its economic platform. The Transcontinental Railroad, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Apollo Moon Mission are the most singular examples.” From this week’s…
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210401-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf? “… The knowable measure, in principle, of the difference between man and all among the lower forms of life, is found in what has been usefully regarded as the naturally upward evolution of the human species, in contrast to all other known categories of living species. The standard of…
