http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170708-EIR-New-York-and-Oroville-Dam.pdf On June 29, just days after a subway derailment in New York City, which injured 34 people and did substantial damage to the tunnel, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transit System. In California, the Oroville Dam…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170720-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170713-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf Looking back to those martyrs who gave us institutions in which truth was given social standing. And that is freedom. There is no freedom without truth, and there is no truth without freedom. The right of an individual informed by right principles to come to an opinion based on…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170706-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf This Week’s Report Temperatures remain hot in much of the West, and we have an article from Accuweather that explains it, along with what more to expect. That leads to items on the snowpack melt, some flooding and the lingering affects of the drought on groundwater problems for…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170629-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf The essential significance of these expressions of existentialist irrationalism for the predictability of the post-1960s U.S. population’s trends in opinion, is that these mass developments, initially centered in the university student populations of the 1964-1972 interval, became “a march through the institutions,” a virtual locust-plague of irrationalism, whose spreading…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170629-USF-OBOR-Lecture.pdf June 26, 2017 Michael Steger Schiller Institute Bay Area
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170622-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf “You’re talking about an investment by more than one generation. All of the great projects which we need now, as in the past too, are projects which require multigenerational investment. They are the incurrence of debt, a debt which spans generations. And one of the great things that we…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170615-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf It was exactly 86 years ago last month, in the midst of the Great Depression, that American workers broke ground on a project unlike anything our nation had ever built. America had a vision to bring irrigation and electricity to vast swaths of the American Southwest, to make the…
http://californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170604-Oroville-Dam-Catastrophe-Once-Again-A-Wake-Up-Call.pdf When will this nation get back to work, rebuilding itself and building a future? This magazine presented last week the disaster that is the New York City transportation system. We can traverse the nation and find innumerable infrastructure disasters. The Trump administration this week is holding a series of…
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20170608-California-Drought-(and-Flood)-Update.pdf A Note To Readers About a year and one-half ago as the California Water Resources Board and other water authorities were facing a water emergency and reversed the flow of the Delta-Mendota canal, I wrote that the entire California water management system was now like a juggler attempting to…
