(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20231005-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
A Note to Readers
In Oakland today, the temperature is at or near 90 degrees. That is about 20 degrees above the normal temperature for October. Though it is expected to begin to return to “normal” temperatures over the next few days, this heat wave (of about 3-4 days) follows a summer in which most days saw temperatures in the low 70s.
I guess we can be thankful that we avoided the extreme temperatures much of the rest of the nation experienced this past summer.
But, according to this report today from pressenterprise.com, Los Angeles will be getting a little heat over the next few days: “In Los Angeles County, temperatures are expected to remain in the mid to high 90s for much of the inland communities, about 10-15 degrees above average for this time of year, and low to mid 90s along the coast, 15-20 degrees higher than normal, said meteorologist Ryan Kittel.”
The U.S. Drought Monitor this week, as the new water year began on October 1, highlights the “miracle winter,” as it is being called, that piled up snow and drenched the state with 9 atmospheric rivers this past winter. The reservoirs are overflowing and drought, after more than a dozen years of it, does not now exist in California.
Under my title, “Billionaire speculators and associate parasites lose round one,” the article reports on how the attempt to create a “paradise” city in Solano County agricultural land by pitting one city’s legal advisors against the city failed, miserably. An excerpt from the article follows, which you can find the link on page 5.
“For the first time since their plan to build a city in Solano County became public, representatives of California Forever went to a local government and asked for permission to do something. For the billionaire city-builders, it was a big-time bust.”
Hydro-power production this year will decline by about 6%, even with California producing twice what it did last year. The big decline comes from the Northwest states due to drought in that region.
And a surprise from environmentalists in the Lake Tahoe region: They advocate cutting down trees, since the overgrowth of the forests creates water shortages and diseases that kill the trees.
With the Colorado River crisis not going away soon, if ever, Arizona is going to shut down Saudi Arabia’s growing of alfalfa with the scarce water of the region.
The Feature this week demonstrates the kind of thinking that made the United States the greatest builder of infrastructure in history. The article is from some of my friends in Mexico, who present, in detail, how to do that again today, in Mexico.Only the introduction and a few paragraphs of the article are included, but the link is provided:“The Water Revolution that Cannot be Postponed in Mexico, Thinking Big Is Key to the New Mexican-American Alliance.”
While that proposal can provide a real solution to the border crisis, the following video discusses how real infrastructure building in the U.S. itself, can make natural disasters more manageable:
LPAC Short: Real infrastructure—Not Biden’s B.S. Would Have Made Hurricane Ida Manageable
By Brian Lantz
October 02, 2023
A 16 minute video:
Originally posted on September 12, 2021 – The damage done by Hurricane Ida is not due to climate change. Storms of that magnitude have occurred long before the industrial age. The damage was due to a lack of investment in infrastructure that could have been built with modern technology, none of which is in Biden’s infrastructure.
