California’s Water Future: Where Should We Invest Next? A terrific panel at the 2026 Orange County Water Summit where I joined Charlie Wilson, Chandra Sekhar Chilmakuri, and Mark Gold to discuss water policies and projects. youtube.com/watch?v=mS1OUr0B…

Here is a terrific panel discussion on the State of California's scarcity oriented policies. I was privileged to participate in on October 6 at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. youtube.com/watch?v=PPiE2S-Z…

Capturing El Nino runoff in new and expanded percolation basins is the most immediate and feasible way to improve water storage and supply in California. We can turn these possible superstorms into an opportunity instead of a threat. agnetwest.com/edward-ring-el…

Republican in California are overwhelmingly outspent. They have no advantages of incumbency. Their supporters are so disillusioned that many will not vote. But it's not just about candidates. Important ballot initiatives are too close to call. amgreatness.com/2026/10/21/c…

On January 1, 2027, having "nonfunctional" grass will be illegal. Expect massive tree death, hotter urban heat island effects, more gaseous, toxic "astroturf," negligible water savings, and a pack of preening eco-fanatics celebrating the destruction. californiaglobe.com/fr/rings…

There is a great irony in the fact that the progressive left relies on the concept of "induced demand" to argue against things most people want - more lanes on the freeway, more water, more affordable energy. According to this concept, by putting us on, for example, a "road diet," fewer people will drive, and that will help us save the earth. But this is the same progressive coalition that is oblivious to the "induced demand" created when you give away free crack pipes and hot meals (in that order) to people whose homeless encampments have overtaken parks and sidewalks in our major cities. When you do this, you attract people from all over the U.S. who love the mild weather, the lack of drug enforcement, and the free food. So the application of induced demand is inverted in progressive California. It is trotted out as a pseudo-scientific rationalization for scarcity policies that starve working people of the transportation, water, and energy assets they legitimately need, while it is ignored despite its value in explaining why we have an exploding population of homeless in our state. californiaglobe.com/fr/rings…

Californians have been conditioned to have a Pavlovian aversion to GOP candidates. But here in California, GOP policies or proposals aren't the main problem. The GOP threatens powerful special interests that do NOT care about the average citizen. amgreatness.com/2026/10/14/t…

This video underscores a sad political reality in California: Voters are conditioned to reject anything or anyone labeled "Republican" before considering and comparing their policies to the alternative.

Cal Matters references the water policy paper I co-wrote in 2024 with Steve Hilton in this article comparing his proposals (detailed) with Javier Becerra's (nothing). calmatters.org/politics/elec…

There is no single variable that affects how much water is available to Californians than how we manage the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. There ought to be a safe way to withdraw and store far more water from the delta. In our wettest years, millions of acre feet more. How much flow is enough? In the year ended 9/30/2023, when 27.2 MAF flowed into the San Francisco Bay, couldn’t another two million acre feet have been added to the 5.2 MAF that was sent into the aqueducts? Or couldn’t another two million (or more) acre feet have been diverted out of the rivers before all that storm runoff got to the delta? There are many proposed answers to this question. The proposed Delta Conveyance (“tunnel,” for the uninitiated), of course, dominates the discussion. Another way to get more water out of the delta might be to build fish friendly infiltration beds, a proposal being evaluated by the San Joaquin County Blueprint. Dredging the silted up channels in the delta to restore healthy flows certainly would not hurt exports, although there is disagreement as to the benefits. But getting more water out of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, whether it’s directly out of the delta or before it reaches the delta, only solves half the problem. But there are many proposed answers to the challenge of storage as well. When there are heavy rains, even short of flooding, irrigation districts need to be able to divert some of the river flow into fields and bypasses to recharge aquifers. There’s already plenty of existing capacity to do this, but we need more, and the permitting process needs to be much easier. And of course, build the Sites Reservoir. Get on with it. Moreover, since a healthy dose of heresy might help subvert the orthodoxy that governs water policy in California today, raise the Shasta Dam, then build the Los Banos Grandes Reservoir, Temperance Flat, and the Auburn Dam. Or just store it all underground. As long as we have a place to put the rain, we don’t care. Which gets to the heart of water policy today in California. Our state doesn’t need to spend an estimated $7 billion to cram urban use down to 40 gallons per person per day. We don’t need to fallow nearly one million acres of farmland. We need to store more water, we need to recycle and reuse 100 percent of our urban water, we need to optimize urban runoff harvesting, and we need to reimagine seawater desalination not as an incremental source of fresh water, but as an opportunity to add another million acre feet or more per year to our annual supply of fresh water, impervious to drought. This is the true abundance mentality. Conservation has been a success. Enough already. Our cities and farmers use the same amount of water today as they did in the 1980s when the population was 40 percent lower and farm productivity was half what it is today. We did that. Now it is time to deregulate the approval processes which will dramatically lower the cost for water supply infrastructure, firmly rebuke the opportunists for whom environmentalist obstruction is a business model, and go to work. californiaglobe.com/fr/rings…

There is NO good reason to drain Lake Pillsbury. The economics are bogus, because restoration would cost less than removal. The "equity" is absolutely bogus, because the "nations" that are to be compensated are located up north on a different watershed. The environmental reasons are bogus, because a massive herd of endangered tule elk depend on the lake, and the area upstream of Lake Pillsbury only represents about 7 percent of the total watershed of the Eel River. There are plenty of places already along the Eel for salmon. And what about summertime releases from the lake, supposedly to help salmon? Those will be gone. Meanwhile, this lake is depended on by farmers along the Russian River and ranchers throughout the region, and diversions from the Eel thanks to Lake Pillsbury represent less than one percent of the total flow of the Eel. If they got rid of the pot farmers downstream on the Eel they'd save a lot more water than that, but of course it is more dangerous to take on cartels than it is to screw Americans who have poured generations of hard work into their farms and ranches. Finally, when the next big wildfire comes along to immolate our stressed and overgrown forests, overgrown and tinder dry because our overseers in Sacramento regulated the state's timber industry out of existence, and made impossible the permit process to do controlled burns or mechanical thinning or grazing, there will not be a lake available for helicopters to drop buckets into for water to fight the fire. But they'll say "climate change," and we'll all bow down in obeisance. We are dealing with liars and crooks. The imminent destruction of Lake Pillsbury is another despicable example of a state government that is at war with the people it serves, and testament to how thoroughly the corrupt special interests who run this state have brainwashed the electorate. This destruction must be stopped, but I have no idea how that's going to be done. Read this entire article by Keely Covello. There's much more. It is incredibly sad that the leadership of this state is so inept, or worse. @keelymbc americaunwon.com/p/the-mount…

Here is a good update on the next generation of AI. youtube.com/watch?v=mrdWBrId…

When a fiscal catastrophe renders California’s state and local governments insolvent, our electorate will reach a crossroads. Voters will either support full-blown socialism, or they will stop viewing more government spending as the only option. amgreatness.com/2026/10/07/s…

"Enhanced geothermal" projects can deliver baseload electricity from almost anywhere on earth. There is intense competition to commercialize this energy. In the drive to rapidly increase total energy production worldwide, geothermal is a huge wild card. californiaglobe.com/fr/rings…

America can restore affordable suburban housing by embracing smaller homes, larger lots, deregulation, infrastructure investment, and technological innovation. amgreatness.com/2026/09/30/s…