http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20200116-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1579227388 ”Over the span of eight years, the TVA transformed the Tennessee Valley region, consisting of all or parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi. It brought the people living in the TVA region into the modern industrial and agricultural era, from a standard of living and…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20200109-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1578787742 “But, it is not just the Los Angeles Aqueduct that Mulholland bequeathed to us in this city. He initiated the campaign to build the Hoover Dam and played a key role in ensuring that the Federal Government built it. To do so, as the superintendent of the Los Angeles…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20200109-The-Los-Angeles-Aqueduct.pdf?_t=1578770350 A Prometheus Among Us: William Mulholland Brings the Water to Los Angeles The California Water Crisis, the California Water Management System, and the Solution—NAWAPA, Part II “These are the wages for befriending man, To whom, flouting divine authority, You have so rashly and wrongfully surrendered The property of the…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20200102-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1578078400 “The most obvious place to invest the financing available through this long-term credit mechanism and participating private banks is in building a modern infrastructure platform for the U.S. economy, while also creating crash programs to develop fusion and explore near space and the Moon. Since we have damaged our…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20191230-Historical-Truth-1.pdf?_t=1577661954 Following the item immediately below is my contribution to the fight for truth that the EU and especially Poland are seeking to bury today:
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20191226-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1577382910 A Note To Readers A break for Christmas in in order. So, below you will find just one item: A report and presentation I did in 2012, which tells the story of one of the epic battles in the West to not just build needed infrastructure, but how the…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20191219-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1576863597 First, for some overall perspective let’s recognize that about 80 percent of all U.S. energy (always measured in BTUs) comes from fossil sources, with another 8.6 percent contributed by nuclear. Total energy from “renewables,” a term which probably doesn’t mean what you imagine it does, amounts to 11.4 percent….
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20191212-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1576294974 First person: China has about 20,000 miles of high speed rail. The U.S. has none. Second person: Why is that? First person: China stole all of ours. A Note To Readers Well, the Trump administration announced today that a trade deal with China has been agreed to. Here is…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20191205-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1575658731 “The only long-term solution for California and the rest of the West and the Plains States is the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA).” A Note To Readers Thanksgiving Day just happened to fall on Thursday last week (surprise!!). And since this report is written each Thursday, a…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20191121-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1574441142 “In this report, is a section on the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which transformed the U.S. farm sector in a revolutionary manner. In 1935 only 10 percent of the farms in the nation were electrified. By 1951, as a result of the REA, 90 percent then had electricity. The…
