(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230504-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Due to scheduling, this week’s report skips current news and developments. Following two U.S. Drought Monitor maps showing the dramatic wipe-out of the drought in California over the last six months, the remainder of…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230427-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers I call the readers attention to the Feature this week. It is a report I wrote in and presented to several audiences in 2013: “The Fight to Build the Grand Coulee Dam and the…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230420-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The Feature this week centers on launch today of the SpaceX Starship/Superheavy combination launch system. While the launch was successful, the rocket blew up a minute or two after the launch. But, as Elon…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230413-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Two topics make up the report this week. First, after the U.S. Drought Monitor, which essentially shows the present drought in California is gone. Secondly, the Interior Department of the Biden administration and its…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230406-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers A political revolution is underway in the nation now, as I am sure everyone here knows. The best coverage, I think, of the indictment of President Trump, what the charges are, and what it…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230330-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Yes, we have a “record” snowpack, that when it melts later this Spring and Summer, will cause further flooding; and yes the sky has dropped trillions of gallons of water on the state, but…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230323-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Flooding, not drought, is now the challenge that water managers, the state and local governments and thousands of citizens face this winter. And with a record snowpack that will begin melting in the coming…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230316-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Over more than 10 weeks, California has had 11 atmospheric river storms, dumping record amounts of rain and snow on the state. The drought, one would think, must have been obliterated. Not quite. As…
A Special Issue for the California Republican Party State Convention by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230309-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf With the thousands of California Republicans meeting this weekend in Sacramento, this report is addressed to them– to orient the party, and thus our state and nation, to understand what must be done to begin to…
A Special Issue for the California Republican Party State Convention by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20230309-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf Published weekly since July, 2014 http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org , or, https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaDroughtUpdate For a free subscription to the weekly report: Send me an email– patruckert@gmail.com With the thousands of California Republicans meeting this weekend in Sacramento, this report is…
