(With expanded coverage of all the Western States)
by Patrick Ruckert
http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-March-14%2C-2024.pdf
A Note to Readers
Last week this report focused on the ongoing negotiations between the seven states that are allocated the waters of the Colorado River, seeking an agreement on the amount of those allocations as the amount of the water now flowing annually has dropped from 15 million acre feet to about 12 million acre feet. http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report-March-7%2C-2024.pdf
Forty million people in those states, and millions of acres of farm land, depend upon the river for drinking water, irrigation and hydroelectric generation.
This week the Feature provides links to the project proposed in the 1960s, the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), a project that had it been built would have ensured that by the 1990s that not only the western states, but the entire North American continent would have a water supply system for many decades into the future.
The rest of this week’s report
Following another week of rain and snow in California, the weather has turned warm and dry. Spring is just days away, and officially or not, I think it has already arrived.
