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Lake Mead declines to lowest level in history
The Desert Sun | May 20, 2016 | Ian James

Posted on 05/22/2016 7:15:10 PM PDT by EveningStar

Link only per agreement with Gannett


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: coloradoriver; drought; hooverdam; lakemead; lasvegas; water; watershortage
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To: EveningStar

There is plenty of water in the Pacific Ocean. Just take the salt out before you use it. ;-)


21 posted on 05/22/2016 7:41:18 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: EveningStar

Thanks for posting. Very interesting. (Not good)

On a lighter note...

It’s a desert…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VURr6jnWQ


22 posted on 05/22/2016 7:41:53 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: EveningStar

Seems we don’t need so many more people here. Maybe we should just send all the illegals back before it becomes a worse problem.


23 posted on 05/22/2016 7:45:53 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: EveningStar

Grow more grass in southern California deserts and the lake will be empty soon. Time to start cutting back water usage!!!


24 posted on 05/22/2016 7:47:48 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: EveningStar

The Japanese are covering one of their reservoirs with floating photo-voltaic cells that not only make electricity, but also retard evaporation. I saw where the Californians filled one with small, black floating balls to retard evaporation. I never heard how that turned out.

(I hope I can still use the word “retard”.)


25 posted on 05/22/2016 7:48:05 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: EveningStar

The Upper Colorado River basin Snow pack is 102% of Normal as of Today. If the Snows not melting, its hard to fill reservoirs downstream.

How can “climate Change” be blamed for running Hydroelectric generators to drain a man-made, reservoir that has another, larger dam 200 miles upstream That has been rising since April?

The water level of lake Mead is 90% controlled by man, and 10% controlled by nature.


26 posted on 05/22/2016 7:49:27 PM PDT by UNGN (I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
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To: VanShuyten

The Japanese are covering one of their reservoirs with floating photo-voltaic cells that not only make electricity, but also retard evaporation.


But the big question is: Can you water ski over them?


27 posted on 05/22/2016 7:53:17 PM PDT by Vic S (I am not a number; I am a free man!)
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To: EveningStar

They better leave the Bellagio Fountains alone! They are sensational!

That’s right, my priorities are awfully questionable. :)


28 posted on 05/22/2016 7:54:12 PM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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29 posted on 05/22/2016 8:01:58 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: EveningStar

I wonder if any bodies from the Vegas area have become exposed with the receding shoreline. Maybe they just buried the bodies in the surrounding desert.


30 posted on 05/22/2016 8:09:07 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

It’ll blow your mind how much vegas has grown. They’re still building.

THATS WHY LAKE MEAD IS GOING DOWN!!!! You built in a desert and more and more people are pulling from a man made lake!


31 posted on 05/22/2016 8:27:01 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: PAR35

I believe you have the wrong river in mind. Salmon are not native to the Colorado River according to my sources. If you have something different, please provide the source. Thanks


32 posted on 05/22/2016 8:31:04 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Trump - It's no longer about Conservatism, it's about the right man for the job.)
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To: EveningStar

The level of Lake Mead is controlled by the Hoover Dam. Shut off or reduce the outflow until the lake fills up again. What’s the problem? Why let the water go to waste by flowing into the Gulf of California?


33 posted on 05/22/2016 8:32:34 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: smokingfrog

St. Thomas will be full of bass when (or if) the lake covers it again.


34 posted on 05/22/2016 8:39:27 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: EveningStar

That reminds me: I left the water running all night and all day today. Oh well.


35 posted on 05/22/2016 9:01:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: VanShuyten
(I hope I can still use the word “retard”.)

If you are adjusting the timing on your classic car, yes.

36 posted on 05/22/2016 9:05:15 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: EveningStar
...The legal framework that divvies up the Colorado River was established during wetter times, starting with the 1922 Colorado River Compact. That and subsequent agreements have handed out more water than what flows in the river in an average year, leading to chronic overuse...

Absolutely brought about by climate change.
The only cure is the application of more socialism and acceptance of Islam.

37 posted on 05/22/2016 9:09:14 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba ( Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.)
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To: r_barton

Virtually none of the water makes it to the Gulf of Califonia, in spite of a treaty between the two countries.


38 posted on 05/22/2016 9:14:05 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: stubernx98

They still release the dam water downstream....why? They should not release water through the dam until the lake is at proper levels. I smell politics at play. We are providing water to Mexico also.


39 posted on 05/22/2016 9:16:40 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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To: EveningStar

Ever in history?

Seems like a pretty bold statement, since it isn’t yet 100 years old but, it is history never the less...


40 posted on 05/22/2016 9:50:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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