(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 the report focuses on desalination to produce fresh water.
The introduction to that section is repeated here:
President John F. Kennedy did much more than launch the Apollo Project which put the first man on the Moon in 1969. He was far and away the nuclear power President.
And in 1963, he launched the nuclear-power-desalination policy from the White House. While the program died by the early 1970s, it had got traction. In 1964, the Atomic Energy Commission signed a contract with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build the first plant at Huntington Beach, California.
What follows are three sections:
First, Elon Musk on Desalination.
Secondly, a short excerpt from and the link to an article in Executive Intelligence Review on Kennedy the nuclear power president, which includes his initiative in 1963 to build nuclear-power-desalination plants.
Thirdly, a series of reports I wrote in 2015 on Nuclear Power Desalination in California.
