"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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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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"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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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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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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