"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
As expected, state and federal water allocations from the Sacramento Delta are zero for Central Valley agriculture in California. Stockpile food now. Food prices are sure to rise. The California State Water Project previously announced zero percent allocations. The federal…
If the California drought was due to climate change, there would not have been previous droughts when few people lived there. The link between the current drought and climate change is tenuous (as the NY Times says.) That didn’t stop…
California and the Southwest have a long history of drought. Some Southwest droughts lasted 100 years. Worse, the 20th Century may have been unusually wet. Yet water infrastructures were built and planning was done assuming droughts, if any, would be…
The Metropolitan Water District in southern California has planned for years for droughts and has the only full reservoirs in the state, Castaic and Pyramid. They did this by raising water rates and deliberately buying surplus water. Lots of water…
When California needs extra power, it generally imports hydropower from the State of Washington. This year though, a bit ominously, not only is there a California drought, the Pacific Northwest is also short on water. This means less hydropower for…