(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230713-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers No real changes in California’s water situation, but we do have a serious drought in the Mid-west. The U.S. Drought Monitor for California tells part of that story. The first few articles on the…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230706-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The first weeks of Summer finds actual notable developments reported to be few. The California drought is gone, at least for now. Drought continues to do serious damage in the Mid-western states. Thus, I…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230629-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers While the drought in California is mostly gone, it is the Mid-West that now suffers. Oregon and Washington, too, have drought with the Oregon governor announcing this week that another county is in a…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230622-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers This week’s report begins with the U.S. Drought Monitor, and is immediately followed by some excellent graphics demonstrating that the drought in California is gone, for now. The graphics show the level of the…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230615-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?_t=1686969093 A Note to Readers Most of this week’s report are excerpts from my 2012 report, “The Fight to Build the Grand Coulee Dam and the Economic Revolution that Transformed the Nation.” The Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230608-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The Feature this week revisits the 1876 Centennial Celebration held in Philadelphia in an article by my colleague Robert Ingraham, “President Trump Makes Himself the Personal Rallying Point for the Principles of 1776.” “On…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230601-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to ReadersMay, 2023 has come and gone. The Bureau of Reclamation deadline for the states of the Colorado River Basin to come to an agreement on reducing withdraws from the river by two to four million…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230525-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The foci of this week’s report is: First, the agreement among California, Arizona and Nevada to cut back their withdraws from the Colorado River by three million acre feet over three years. My introduction…

(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230518-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Following the obligatory U.S. Drought Monitor map, the focus this week is on the California floods and the Colorado River. Included in the first section is an interesting historical article on the emergence of…

For May 11, 2023 (With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230511-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers As the California drought has now nearly completely disappeared, and the snowpack in the Sierras begins to melt, adding more to the flooding in the state, there is not much…