Category Archives: Water

Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Bill

BackgroundThe Senate recently approved a bipartisan 1-trillion infrastructure bill that earmarked 8.3 billion for water projects in the drought-stricken West. Assuming the House concurs and the President signs it into law, the bill will appropriate 1.15 billion for improving water storage, transport infrastructure and projects to replenish aquifers, 1 billion … Continue reading →

Plan A: The Andes

The Andes extend 7,000 kilometers (4,349 miles), from Venezuela to Chile. Nowhere else on Earth is there another mountain range adjacent to the ocean and of this length and height. The ocean’s close proximity to the Andes means solar powered plants could be built on or close to the shore … Continue reading →

Plan A: Mexico

Mexico While the U.S. meets all the requirements to build a vast aquafacture-based economic infrastructure, Mexico also has comparable but less capital-demanding features with which to implement Plan A. The Gulf of California –wholly Mexican- eliminates the need to dig a canal, and its two sparsely populated coastlines have abundant sunlight the … Continue reading →

China’s Water Problem

On February 17, 2012, an article in the Shanghai Daily reported that 40 percent of China’s rivers are seriously polluted, two thirds of Chinese cities are “water needy,” 300 million people in rural areas lack access to drinking water, and 20 percent of rivers are too toxic to even touch. In response, … Continue reading →

Plan A Diagram

Rationale As the consequences to the environment of anthropomorphic climate change continue to worsen, it behooves us all to do what we can to mitigate their effect. The solution is well known: cease and desist using nuclear fission and fossil fuels to generate electricity and run motor vehicles. One obvious … Continue reading →

Plan A: Financing

A Possible Infrastructure Investment Structure By special law, an Infrastructure Investment Bank, designated as a charity, could be federally chartered and insured by the Federal Reserve System (not the Federal Government). Neither the Fed nor the Government, nor any of their current or future potential departments, affiliates, agencies or designees, … Continue reading →

Winning Over Republican Voters

November 9, 2020 The frenzy of election day may be behind us, but the turmoil and uncertainty continue: the calm before the storm, if you will.  The reason for that grim assessment is because the Democrats did not win the hearts of roughly half the population. In simple terms, unless they … Continue reading →

Ice-Breaking Apocalypse

November 26, 2017  Background Once again a study, in this case ice-breaking, has the scientific community in emergency mode. It turns out that two of the largest glaciers in Antarctica may actually trigger the disintegration of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet in a mere 20 to 50 years. That’s … Continue reading →

Maps of the World’s Water Crisis

July 15, 2017 Many aquifers are being rapidly depleted throughout the world, and this does not factor in climate change. Case in point, the southern portion of the Ogallala Aquifer, a prime agricultural region in the U.S., is estimated to have no more that 20 years left. Simultaneously, according to … Continue reading →

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