Posted on 04/21/2022 3:45:13 PM PDT by blam
Following the U.S. Department of the Interior’s call to limit water deliveries from Lake Powell, Arizona’s top water official warned of an impending water crisis that could affect the drinking water for millions of people.
“This is really getting to (be) a health and safety issue… the health and safety of those who want to turn on the tap and have water,” Tom Buschatzke, Arizona’s director of water resources, told Phoenix’s 12 News on Sunday.
He said Arizona and other Western states have until the end of the week to respond to an emergency request by the federal government to delay water deliveries from the Colorado River, a move that would hopefully allow more water to flow into Lake Powell.
“I never thought this day would come this quickly … But I think we always knew that this day was potentially out there,” he said.
Lake Powell recently declined to 3,525 feet (1,075 meters), the lowest level since the federal government dammed the Colorado River at Glen Canyon (located in northern Arizona) more than five decades ago. If Lake Powell drops below 3,490 feet (1,063 meters), it could begin to inhibit the production of hydropower and the movement of water from the dam.
Buschatzke said the water outlook is bleak, adding, “we not in danger of shutting off the taps at home today — but the levels of the lakes [Lake Powell & Lake Mead] would become difficult to move water past the dams because of the infrastructure design — so even if there is water in the reservoir, it’s limited to how much can come out.”
He said the goal is to keep water levels at Lake Powell high enough to continue operations at Glen Canyon Dam and supply water to Lake Mead.
With no end in sight, emergency action could be taken in the next few years to dramatically change how farms and households use water, all for preservation purposes. He said the Colorado River doesn’t have enough water for the seven states and Mexico that rely on it.
He warned: “We’re going to have to learn to live with less water.”
Listen to the full interview here.
(please go to the site to see the video)
Bite me!
And if all illegals were deported, how much water would be saved and available for citizens?
Do they have to grow cotton in Arizona? Lettuce in SoCal?
Instead of trying to move more water to desert crops, perhaps they could move the crops closer to the water.
I always thought it strange that Phoenix has 19 golf courses. I had to go to one of them once as part of a business trip before moving here, and I remember seeing a small patch of dry dead grass that was missed by the sprinklers, thinking, THAT’s what this should be . . . the rest of this doesn’t belong here!
Arizona also has a lot of agriculture. Lettuce and cotton like lots of water.
They just give up , hey buddy it’s YOUR JOB ,LOL
Lettuce is water
“We’re going to have to learn to live with less water.”
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Or quit living,
is what they really want.
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Vast majority of that water is for Agriculture. We may want to re-think our diets a bit. Why are you growing Avocados and Almonds in a Desert? Just an example.
Israelis are experts at farming in a Desert, how do they do it?
Full disclosure; I live in Hawaii and grow stuff year round,
but it is warm and wet here, and a lot more expensive to farm than a Desert.
Our biggest farming problem is Democrat NIMBYs.
Properties with dried up swimming pools soon available.
Cut off power and water to CA.
All part of the plan to destroy our capitalist system, create chaos and death, then swoop in with voter approval to centrally control everything and enact Communism all in the guise of saving the people. Never mind that billions of dollars that are meant to go to increasing reservoir space is spent on general fund projects thus resulting in wasting untold huge quantities of water by dumping it into the sea.
That’s crazy, just tap into the Colorado River at excessive flow water times of the year.
Good thing Arizona went along with the steal. Now that they saves the USA from Trump their chosen administration gets to tell them ‘no water for you, drink sand if your thirsty’
Cut off the water deliveries to Mexico until the stop the flow of illegals and drugs across the border.
What’s the worst that could happen? Their military attacks us, loses and Mexico becomes a protectorate, under the control of the US Army?
Interesting that the dam design locks so much water into the “lake” which can’t be used.
Maybe it should have been a land-fill, first.
Instead of building high-speed rail in California, they should be spending that money on desalination plants.
“Phoenix has 19 golf courses.”
How many are in Palm Springs CA?
Yet Ca, for example, will NOT build more water retention infrastructure.
The same for AZ. Monsoon rains hit and where does that water go?
Over 90% of that water evaporates.
Then add to that, the mismanagement of forests.
Transform the desert into green and lush areas like this African did. But hey! The government! The government, we need government money you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfblLpKKM1Q
That is the key.
Since most of California’s population is now either descended from illegals, or are actually in the country illegally, the other Western states have no obligation to honor the Interstate Water Compact that splits the water up.
The agreement was not made with the idea of supplying water to foreigners.
It all goes back to the Gov’t induced drought caused by NASA, NOAA, and the Air Force through Geo-Engineering. Go to GeoEngineeringWatch.org ... it been going on for years and they are perfecting it more every year. Going to kill several birds with one stone .... draught, famine and killer weather.
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