Lake Mead nears dead pool status as water levels hit another historic low

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  1. mdrobster

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    Very few choices for those in an arid to desert area. Dig or pipe it in.

    You do realize to pipe it in, it will be expensive, and digging may not have the quality water needed.
     
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    "All sunshine makes a desert" Old Arab saying

    Humanity loves our oases, our first great civilization was in an area where it never rains but there is a large river that floods from outside every year.
     
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    Seven states are drawing water off the Colorado River which supplies Lakes Mead and Powell. If those seven states don't come up with a plan to reduce consumption, the federal government is going to come in with an axe and start cutting them off. Until then, pretty cool all the stuff they find when lakes dry up.
     
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    Got anything to back up that climate change is the reason for lake mead's low levels?
     
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    The Colorado River makes it's way down to Mexico, but the US States have pilfered most of that water from them.
    They just move north to get water.
     
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    That ain’t gonna ever happen. The waters of the Great Lakes have been put into a legal lock box. But, but we can open that box for some of you folks but the costs to you will be ungodly expensive per gallon. Think gas is bad, our water will be off the charts.
     
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    Not only do all the States that border the Great Lakes have it locked, but the bordering parts of Canada do as well.
    I think there will have to be an agreement by all to ship/sell that water.
     
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    Our water storage, flood control, drought supply and hydroelectric generation systems operate on a five year cycle. We store during the wet years, draw down during the dry years, refill during the wet years, but, as demands rise Lake Meade now runs at about a 14% deficit and so has been slowly draining.

    North of Lake Meade running East to West until it joins the mighty Columbia River, one of our largest rivers, the Snake, carries 410% of Meade's total discharge. A fairly modest water project, from the Snake River, the line just above the number 23, below, to Lake Meade (between the 19 and 20 below) would make up the shortfall as well as bringing water to to the thirsty Southwest, and if combined with HydroElectric projects, another solid generator for the national grid in an area that tends to struggle.

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    But, like all our other advancements into the future, it will take younger leaders of vision wresting control from the old washed up dinosaurs that currently have a stranglehold on all national development in this country.
     
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    Seems to me that they should have followed suit of that of Israel and built multiple desalination plants DECADES ago. But is California goes.. they don't think things through properly!
     
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    That’s why I said if we did sell it the price would be more than gasoline. They can live without gas. Can’t live without fresh water.
     
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    I doubt global warming affected the reservoir. The West has a people problem. Global warming is the best boogeyman, better than corona virus.
     
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    Israel does that, while drain the water out of the WB and Golan.... ergo: they are stealing from outside their own country.
     
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    The Snake and the Columbia Rivers have all the water we need, we just have to route it where we need it. Humans have been moving water to where they need it since at least 4,000 BC - it's not really a new concept.

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    Good. We agree. Which was evident in my previous response to you.
     
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    At what cost? Every so often some TWONK decides they can divert east flowing rivers to western areas in Australia. They go quiet when the costs are calculated
     
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    An intelligent race of beings would leave such an inhospitable region.
     
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    Why isn't the free market doing it? There should be money to be made? No?

    But, as usual, the government haters look to the government to fix the problems created by the free market, i.e. over-consumption of a non-sustainable resource, in this case water.
     
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    That is racist!
     
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    I'm currently sitting on a houseboat in Padre Bay on Lake Powell (upstream from Lake Mead for those unfamiliar with thr region's geography). Lake Powell is currently rising a few inches each day, as it does every spring & early summer. My understanding is that the Southwest's water problems, just like most of the rest of the Southwest's problems, are due to Californians. When the original Colorado River Compact was made (100 years ago), it was based off a wild overestimating of the river's flow.

    P.S. Starlink is pretty cool. Thanks Elon!
     
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    Well played sir !

    :applause::applause::applause:
     
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    Interstate Water Issues have their own manageable hurdles to navigate. "States are not allowed to reach an agreement with each other without Congressional involvement."

    States are urged "to negotiate resolutions and establish a procedure for resolving present and future disputes."

    "Interstate compacts allow states to reach their own agreement. Congress must authorize the states to negotiate; Congress must approve the compact once an negotiated agreement is reached, a Congressionally approved agreement assumes the character of federal law."

    https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/ndwaterlaw/acquiringwater/interstatesolutions
     
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    Imagine how much water there might be without 10million+ people illegally living there that shouldn’t?
     
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    Imagine posting about the topic and not about immigrants.

    Golf courses, lawn watering, consume more water than immigrants. For those in the colorado river area.
     
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