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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: UNGN

“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.”

Looks like it’s melting. Help is on the way:

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/


41 posted on 05/22/2016 9:57:35 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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Massive desalination of Pacific water should be the priority for the southwest. They could raise the money to pay for it with a tax on all Starbucks drinks above basic coffee. Might take a week or two, but the money would be raised.


42 posted on 05/22/2016 11:09:51 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (I've crossed the Rubicon -- God speed Donald Trump (just remember these are two different persons))
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To: stubernx98

It’s Vegas


43 posted on 05/22/2016 11:51:03 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Peter ODonnell
Part of Barry Goldwater's vision of the Central Arizona Project canal system was that, some time early in the 21st Century, a second phase consisting of desalination plants on the California coast feeding a canal that traveled through Southern California and hooked up with the existing CAP canal system to feed both The Cali inland empire and Arizona

The plans for this second phase canal were actually drawn up in the 1980s but the enviros killed it. The Alaska pipeline and the CAP were amazing projects from an era when America had vision and dared to think big

New desalination tech makes this plan economically reasonable to solve both California and Arizona's water needs which would take the pressure off Las Vegas

Such a plan could also allow the US to send more water downstream to Mexico

44 posted on 05/23/2016 3:08:44 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraere)
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To: EveningStar

I think that they open the dam to re-create the spring floods that used to inundate the river hoping to benefit the ecosystem downstream.

There is also some water stored in that lake that belongs to Mexico by treaty, or something.


45 posted on 05/23/2016 3:11:49 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: EveningStar

Sure, blame it on climate change rather than watering golf courses in the desert.


46 posted on 05/23/2016 3:18:02 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: rdcbn
Such a plan could also allow the US to send more water downstream to MexicoSuch a plan could also allow the US to send more water downstream to Mexico

Have you ever viewed satellite images of the Colorado River below Yuma?

Barely a trickle gets beyond the border...and all of that gets used up by Mexican irrigation projects around San Luis and Algodones.

What's left is this enormous, but largely waterless, delta draining into the Gulf of California. There is a sparse spider web of tidal streams, but most of the delta looks overgrown with weeds and brush.

A weird landscape...

47 posted on 05/23/2016 3:35:35 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: r_barton

I don’t believe any water, but a trickle, reached the Gulf of California. With several States and Mexico drawing their ever increasing water allocations from the Colorado River, the water is just about ‘spoken for’.


48 posted on 05/23/2016 4:39:56 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: egfowler3

You need to learn to think like a liberal. Use accurate, but irrelevant, arguments.


49 posted on 05/23/2016 4:51:01 AM PDT by PAR35
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