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Is California’s Water Infrastructure Ready for Climate Whiplash?

July 10, 2025/by Edward Ring

If there is anything that might constitute an overwhelming institutional consensus in California, it’s that we are experiencing climate change, and that one of the consequences will be more rain, less snow, and more so-called whiplash between very wet years and very dry years. In an average year these days, 30 million acre feet of water flows […]

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Silicon Valley’s Red Pill Decade, Part Two: New Alliances

July 9, 2025/by Edward Ring

Anyone who has spent a few years in Silicon Valley will realize its sudden status at the beginning of the 2020s as a powerful accomplice to regime censorship was incompatible with the core values of the people running these companies. It lasted as long as it did because the progressive pieties they were pressured to […]

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Politics and the Cost for Water Infrastructure

July 5, 2025/by Edward Ring

When it comes to building water supply infrastructure, even if regulations are streamlined and litigation is contained, there are massive costs. Quantifying these variables is something we have focused on a great deal, most recently in “The Economics of the Delta Tunnel.” In that and other reports we’ve offered a highly simplified cost/benefit equation: divide […]

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The Grand Water Bargain

June 26, 2025/by Edward Ring

For the last few decades in California, the conventional wisdom has been that farmers and urban water consumers have to improve efficiency and reduce consumption. To the fullest extent possible, rain and snow falling on watersheds must proceed unimpaired from the mountains to the ocean, and if water is reserved in reservoirs, releases of the […]

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Silicon Valley’s Red Pill Decade, Part One: Divorcing Wokeness

June 25, 2025/by Edward Ring

Something is happening in California’s Silicon Valley that is going to change America and the world. It’s a cultural shift with implications that will have an impact as profound as what it has already done with its technology. It’s happening from the ground up, changing the attitudes of techies in the Valley and their counterparts […]

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ABOUT EDWARD RING

Edward Ring is the director of energy and water policy with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness, and a regular contributor to the National Review and the California Globe. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Orange County Register, and other media outlets.

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