Posted on 06/16/2022 5:50:58 PM PDT by blam
We were foolish enough to believe we could water the entire southwestern U.S. with the Colorado River.
Nothing could go wrong.
Now it has, and tens of millions of people are staring down the barrel of real trouble.
As much as 75% of the water from Lake Mead (fed by the Colorado River) goes to agriculture…so now we have a potential food production problem.
Major cities like Las Vegas depend on that water for its citizens…now we have a potential personal survival problem for local residents.
More than 40 million people in seven states need to decide how they go on living if the rains do not return. Is anyone worried? Is there an emergency management team in place? Doesn’t seem that way if you review the local news there.
Are they prepared? No. Maybe 3% of the population has anything in place for survival. What do they do? Where do they go?
Is Kansas ready for an influx of evacuees from California? Can the East Coast handle another few million people?
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“tens of millions of people are staring down the barrel of real trouble.” The author is a drama queen. Oh, no. The world is going to end!
In other news, the recent floods in Yellowstone prove that planet Earth has enough water for 15 billion people. If water was scarce and if covid is a problem, then close the border.
Sunshine everyday. That said, we built the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal system traversing a very large state from just south of Las Vegas to Tucson.
It’s time to extend it through barren Nevada to No. Cal and the Cascades. Yosemite, Shasta, Oregon, etc. who often can’t handle the rain, or store it for use during future drought.
Rains always came in time to serve Los Angeles and little desert cities like Vegas and Phoenix. We’re no longer ‘little’.
Demand now is 100X what it was. We can no longer wait.
Desalinization could work but California won’t allow it. Maybe Bay of Cortez.
Desalination was always the best long term solution for the desert southwest, particularly southern California.
It turns out that despite the lip service to “sustainable” this and “sustainable” that, the politicians have no interest in long term infrastructure plans that actually work.
I used to do a lot of contract work for Ft. Huachuca, Sierra Vista, AZ. My contractor representative was an avid Cowboy Poets fan and one night he took me to a special presentation by a history expert of the area. They guy dressed up in real wool Buffalo soldier-like uniform, kit and sabre.....he talked Ft. Huachuca and the general area back then.
There was a river and the area was much greener. You can see vestiges of how it must have been like in the older parts of the Fort up near the base of the adjacent mountain even today.
My thought is that it just isn’t the Colorado River, but the entire southwest basin that feeds it has been ‘managed’ and aggregated to all collect in Lake Meade where humanity’s usage will eventually drain it - to get water to California and other areas that have grown out of reasonable progression.
Forks, Washington has over 100 inches of rain each year.
(That’s why the sparkly vampires lived there! LOL!)
It doesn’t want to stop raining where I live. Seems we have more rain than sun this year
Doesn’t China own water rights in the U.S.?
-PJ
We have the desalinization technology to solve that problem but California refuses to implement it because the greenies aver that it would be insulting to Oceanus.
I don’t know, but China should prevented from controlling any critical natural resource in America, including water and farmland.
These leftist ‘urban & state planners’ colluded with state meteorologists to conclude that climate was fixed and predictable in the absence of human influence, and that short-term historical water supply records resulting from a man made dam would meet the region’s needs forever.
Just wow. /s
History now demonstrates that Earth’s weather is cyclical on the basis of several factors (including wobble and solar effects) and that southwest states’ planning was ignorant & shortsighted.
This gaslighting of drought as a ‘crisis’ deflects from what ought to be righteous blame for failed policies and enact a top-down total review of said policies.
But no: We must confront this crisis like it can be solved...as opposed to the reality: Adapt and wait it out.
Bottom line: The southwest was barren & brown when we got there for a reason.
I truly hate leftists & bureaucrats; these states can just suck it up without drawing upon the resources - liquid & fiscal - of the rest of us.
And I really don’t appreciate Chris Martenson fanning the flames of hype on ‘megadrought’ & the ‘deadpool’, awestruck describing the so-called ‘planners’ planning to totally drain Lake’s Mead & Powell with new/lower water intakes without corresponding critique.
It’s the same hype they’re peddling on ‘wildfire’ in my state, as though it’s an unnatural phenomenon.
I label it ‘climate woke’ and Martenson deserves a righteous rebuke from real Conservatives. He does identify ‘unsustainable practices’ in part, but fails to fully assign blame for a wholly manmade crisis now coined with the hysterical label ‘megadrought’.
Just for argument’s sake, what is the western meteorological equivalent term for the cycle opposite what they refer to “drought”??? Yeah. /s
Rather than echoing the ‘drought’ gaslighting, Chris really ought to be discussing the other part of this manufactured crisis: Biofuels, and the necessary policy changes which need to occur IMMEDIATELY in the face of collapse of Southwest agriculture.
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