Click on the link below for the report: California Drought Update for August 13 2015    

The Fight to Build the Grand Coulee Dam and the Economic Revolution that Transformed the Nation By Patrick Ruckert February 23, 2013   Click on the link below: Grand Coulee Dam Report  

California Drought Update by Patrick Ruckert August 6, 2015 http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDroughtUpdate Note to Readers: This week’s report, after a couple of short news-type items, will rerun some of the more recent past items that I think focus us on both the cause and solution to the water crisis, generated by…

A Prometheus Among Us: William Mulholland Brings the Water to Los Angeles The History of the California Water Management System, Part II By Patrick Ruckert October 19, 2013 Click on the link below The Los Angeles Aqueduct Report  

Click on the link below: July 30, 2015 California-Drought-Update    

This report was written in 2013, and thus reflects both the conditions at that time and the then more limited knowledge of the author.  But, the general history and the overall content of the report are as valid today as they were two years ago.  The report demonstrates both the…

July 23, 2015 California-Drought-Update Click here to read the report.

California Water Resources Board issues its first enforcement penalty By Patrick Ruckert July 20, 2015 http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDroughtUpdate The California Water Resources Board issued its first enforcement penalty today to put teeth in its June 12 order to irrigation districts and individuals to cease and desist from withdrawing water from California’s…

California Drought Update by Patrick Ruckert July 16, 2015 http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDroughtUpdate The State Water Board vs. the Farmers and Water Districts Round 1 On July 10, a Sacramento County judge blocked the state from enforcing an irrigation curtailment letter, ruling that the letter ordering curtailment violated due process. The ruling…