(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230914-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The Feature this week is an article by my associate Michael Steger, which presents the kind of overall policy required for real economic development, driven by the building of, as he quotes Donald Trump…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230907-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The Feature this week: “Billionaires’ Landgrab Seeks to Destroy Farm land, Create an AI city, and Sparks Opposition,” provides the reader with some of the media coverage of a group of Silicon Valley billionaires…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230831-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers I have just a brief report this week. There was little in new developments this past week, and my schedule has been a little tight. We begin with the U.S. Drought Monitor. Hurricane Hilary…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230824-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers We begin this week’s report with the weather. Hurricane Hilary supposedly drowned out the last vestiges of drought in California, though as this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor map shows at least 1% of the…
Further reporting on the fire in Hawaii by Patrick Ruckert August 20, 2023 www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230820 The Fire This Time.pdf
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230817-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The two main stories this week are the killer fire in Hawaii, and an announcement by the Bureau of Reclamation on management of the Colorado River. Following the U.S. Drought Monitor map, which shows…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230810-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Notable this week is the flurry of articles arguing that climate change requires that farmers stop growing food in California and Arizona, that water rights be restricted for agriculture, and that farms in the…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230803-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Both policy makers and the news media, for several weeks now, have been very quiet. Little to no discussion of serious proposals for dealing with the whipsaw affect that droughts and atmospheric rivers have…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230727-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers A chorus of voices in the U.S. media, like the chorus on the rest of the Woke agenda, finds that almost every article on drought or weather will at some point in the article…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230720-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers This week’s report has a variety of topics not usually covered. And I will skip the Feature this week to do so. We begin with the U.S. Drought Monitor. Just the California map is…
