Posted on 08/19/2019 10:45:13 AM PDT by C19fan
Arizona and Nevada are facing the first-ever mandatory cuts in the amount of water they can take from the Colorado River next year.
The two states are among seven that have agreed to drought contingency plans for the river system that serves about 40 million people and 6,300 square miles of farmland from Wyoming to Southern California.
The cuts are triggered by water levels expected in Lake Mead, a giant reservoir on the river at the Arizona-Nevada border. On Jan. 1, Lake Mead's level is projected to be 1,089.4 feet, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said late last week. That's just below the drought contingency plan threshold of 1,090 feet, and it means cuts for Arizona and Nevada.
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This is to guarantee Los Angeles can continue to water golf courses, fill swimming pools and decorative man made lakes, and wash their cars three times a week. Now their irrational gluttony is costing the other 6 states in the pact their own allotments. And still they do not build the desalination plants they have needed for 50 years.
Years ago, before the CAP was built, some Arizonans said when times get dry, Arizona ‘s allotment (and the allotments of other upstream states) will get cut so California can have water. It looks like the old-timers were right.
Deport all the illegals and the US citizens there would have plenty of water.
I hope those who measure the depth of the reservoir calculate the amount of silt building up behind Hoover Dam.
All in the name of environmentalism.
Some town in Indiana had problems with their water supply. They wanted to tap Lake Michigan, 13 miles away. They could not do that because that took the water outside the watershed boundary and Michigan vetoed.
Conversely though the Canadians have had discussions about selling water from Lake Winnipeg to the American Southwest.
YES
I don’t blame the Michigan guy.
California should be building desal plants. Then the state wouldn’t need to much Colorado River water.
Pretty simple and sensible.
Which is why it won’t be done.
Let me see - a dry often desert like area that does not have a natural water capacity for their populations - what could possibly be wrong.
If water cost at the consumer end what it should in such places, it would be cost efficient to get water for Arizona and southern Nevada from the Gulf of California via desalinization plants (it lies between Baja California and Mexico).
So the water wars begin. Plenty of water in the ocean. Clean it up and serve it. The technology is there. No,money? Stop spending BILLIONS on ILLEGALS and other BS. Build pipelines. Solve the problem instead of being stupid.
Interesting, educational, informative. Thanks to all posters.
They tried several times, but very important priorities of their society knocked it down. They didn’t want to look at an “ugly” desalination plant from their backyards. This is basically what the whole gist of the argument against them boiled down to. Even more so than all the self defeating environmental issues they dreamed up against them.
“Which is why it won’t be done.”
Not until they have no more water left to steal.
Yup, I screwed up by substituting the Sierra Mtns. with the Rockies. I meant the Rockies. That's the ticket, and I'm sticking to it.
Los Vegas and LA are soon going to have to start changing as they have outgrown their water supply and the people left will either be economically privileged and buy as much water as they want, or there will be political unrest.
The California and Nevada leeches are already scheming to pipe water from the Great Lakes. Like they’re somehow entitled to use that resource to render their deserts habitable.
It’s a no-brainer. It’s simple. The Israelis have shown how it can be done on a large scale. It is much more economically viable than even a few years ago.
It’s still energy intensive, but build a couple Gen4 nuke plants and that problem goes away too.
Billions in California are wasted on complete bullshit. This could be done in five minutes with competent leadership.
Meanwhile, Kalifornia continues to dump billions of gallons of fresh water into the Pacific ocean.
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