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Desalination plants, not Mississippi River water, are the solution to West's water needs July 14, 2022 RICHARD MCPHERSON
Many of the experienced infrastructure including energy and water people I know agree. In California prior to Jerry Brown becoming Governor in 1974, desalination and nuclear power were viable technologies for the future. Brown and his elitist friends legislated them out of consideration for the people of California. That set the stage for changes in public policy favoring the elites taking advantage of lower income people, thereby driving out the middle class. Over the past 48-years that trend opened up inviting money from all over the world to come to California. Money has no constraints. It has come from over 100 countries including countries sworn to kill off the United States towards their stated goals of world domination. From California domination by elites spread from the Mexican to Canadian Borders. Then to Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and now like the slow spreading cancer it is now into Idaho and Utah. After the September 11, 2001 attack attending US Critical Infrastructure Protection Forum's by invitation, coupled with creating the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for a while I thought people in the federal government including Congress were serious about security for America and American citizens. I was wrong. American citizens and private sector businesses are on their own. As you know, I served on Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines created to be the ultimate deterrent to a nuclear war created by communists in China and Russia. Knowing the consequences of attacking America or our allies with nuclear weapons, they relentlessly attacked the underbelly of America. Our children, and families. Patiently funding subversion, year after year, 1