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Good Morning Arizona Interviews Steven Greenhut on “Mega-Drought” in the West

Good Morning Arizona | Steven Greenhut
April 15, 2021

"Ten years ago, the West saw only 25% of its area with drought conditions. Some scientists warn the Western region may be headed for the worst megadrought in history. A megadrought is a drought that lasts two decades or longer.
So what does this mean and are there things that can be done to prevent this? Steven Greenhut wrote a book on it called “Winning the Water Wars.” He says the issue goes beyond families conserving water at home."

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Violating intellectual property rights jeopardizes quality health care

Orange County Register | Wayne Winegarden
April 15, 2021

The drive to invalidate patents in the U.S. includes California legislation Senate Bill 605. This legislation violates the intellectual property rights of manufacturers of medical equipment such as diagnostic and imaging machines and forces these companies to disclose confidential training materials and service tools to other third-party service businesses.

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KMVT Idaho Interviews Steven Greenhut on the West’s “Mega-Drought”

KMVT Twin Falls, Idaho | Steven Greenhut
April 16, 2021

"With much of the west in what is being called a “Megadrought” policy expert Steve Greenhut says now is the time to focus on the policy of water abundance. He said due to Idaho’s dramatic population boom it is important to focus on water systems that meet the needs of a growing population and water can be saved in wet years for future dry years."

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Will Vaccine Passports Hasten California Exodus?

PRI's Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
April 14, 2021

As would be expected in our all-politics-all-the-time era, the lines are drawing themselves over vaccine passports. Some believe they “may help us move past the pandemic,” as J.D. Tuccille of Reason says, but, he adds, there’s also concern they could “add new intrusiveness and frustration to our activities.”

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Facing Down Fear of a Mega-Drought

American Spectator | Steven Greenhut
April 15, 2021

Last year wasn’t particularly dry, but now that the West is facing low rainfall again, this concept is all the rage. Just Google “mega-drought” and you’ll be stunned by the amount of reading material. Such a drought could be coming, of course, but when environmentalists compare a drought that hasn’t fully arrived to historic, civilization-changing droughts from the Dark Ages, one has a clue that something more than water policy is in the offing.

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