Posted on 07/17/2014 1:12:09 PM PDT by Maudeen
20 Signs The Drought In The Western United States Is Starting To Become Apocalyptic
July 17, 2014 | Michael Snyder
When scientists start using phrases such as "the worst drought" and "as bad as you can imagine" to describe what is going on in the western half of the country, you know that things are bad. Thanks to an epic drought that never seems to end, we are witnessing the beginning of a water crisis that most people never even dreamed was possible in this day and age.
The state of California is getting ready to ban people from watering their lawns and washing their cars, but if this drought persists we will eventually see far more extreme water conservation measures than that. And the fact that nearly half of all of the produce in America comes out of the state of California means that ultimately this drought is going to deeply affect all of us.
Food prices have already been rising at an alarming rate, and the longer this drought goes on the higher they will go. Let us hope and pray that this drought is permanently broken at some point, because otherwise we could very well be entering an era of extreme water rationing, gigantic dust storms and crippling food prices. The following are 20 signs that the epic drought in the western half of the United States is starting to become apocalyptic...
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how about the columbia river?
I don’t think that would be appealing—even if true.
Besides its not really rainwater if its had time to gather in a lake.
There are different kinds of water.d
For example another great water would be that from the limestones of northern kentucky.
Guess why.
Pipe MS water west; cool idea.
Per ALMOND? Hell, we could save the state by stop eating almonds.
I don't think that would be free from deposits left by ducks, fish, etc.
For example another great water would be that from the limestones of northern kentucky.
Guess why.
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This would be great bottled water because this water is the source water for Kentucky bourbons.
Maybe Obama thinks pissing on our Nation will end the drought.
Missippi flood waters
I don’t think that would be free from deposits left by ducks, fish, etc.
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All true. After treatment, this would be a great source for higher end municipal and lower end farm water.
But even then it would be better to drain the tributaries of the Mississippi at flood from march to june than to slice off 10-20 feet of the Mississippi River itself because I imagine that river is pretty toxic.
I would not think the tunneling would be worse than NY, NY water supply. Deeper maybe but not much more of a project.
Because their buddies are in the train field, not the nuclear field.
“The solution to the drought for the southwest is to strip off the 10-20 feet of Missippi flood waters north of the Ohio river during flood stage March to June and pump them over to south pass in Wyoming. From there the water would roll south to refill Lake Meade and Lake Powell plus make a couple more lakes.”
This is all a bunch or B.S.
The way to mitigate the current droughts in the west is to massively build desalinization plants along the west coast, particularly along the California coast.
Once that build-out is sufficient for relieving west coast drought conditions, add enough plants to quit diverting Colorado River waters to California.
Then, in agreement with Mexico, build desalinization plants to send water into Arizona and New Mexico, from the Gulf of California, lowering THEIR use of Colorado River water and vastly deepleting underground sources.
Saudi Arabia is a desert kingdom with no water shortage - desalinization. Israel produces so much fresh water from desalization of sea water that it exports it.
There is no need to get Mississipi River water to the west.
The west, with its vast Pacific coastline has plenty of water; it’s in the Pacific Ocean, they just need to go get it instead of building “high speed trains” to no where.
There and back would be 4 times the distance through more rock and deeper depth, plus a desalination plant and steam driven pumps along with massive lift stations for any deliveries along the way, and it would not be much more than a simple gravity drain?
I’ve worked projects that had similar thoughts for cost estimates.
They didn’t go so well.
I can see you have put a lot of thought into this...I’m not knowledgeable about those things but it sounds good.
There is no need to get Mississipi River water to the west.
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I’m not talking about california here. I’m talking rather about Utah Nevada, Arizona.
The west, with its vast Pacific coastline has plenty of water; it’s in the Pacific Ocean, they just need to go get it instead of building “high speed trains” to no where.
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I absolutely agree on this. But they do have to get the price of desalination down. The Israelis are doing it for about $500@acre foot, sometimes a little less. The new posiden plant in southern california which is 20 years in the making and still not complete will cost over $1600@acre foot but likely will come in nearer to $2000@ acre foot. Those kinds of costs were too expensive for even Santa Barbara a decade ago but now they’re getting desperate so they’re talking about turning their $2000@ acre foot desal plant on.
There is no need to get Mississipi River water to the west.
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There is a need for flood control on the Mississipi River for a couple months of the year. And there is a dire need for water in Nevada and Arizona as Lake Meade and Lake Powell dry up.
I don’t know if you know your history of the Colorado river but the impetus for the dam there was originally because of a massive flood in the first decade of the 20th century that created the Salton Sea. Hoover Dam was originally designed for both flood control as well as water distribution and power generation.
You create synergies by meeting the needs of the Mississippi Delta people for flood control by sending water at flood stage to people in the South west who need water.
Two of the four highest-volume rivers in the world are in western Canada, emptying merrily into the Pacific Ocean.
Just thinking out load here (sort of...)
The tunneling would be the major part of the project.
A reflective mirror boiler should make team so reverse osmosis would not be required.
150# or 300# steam should supply most of the power needed.
Effluent steam could be re-superheated and piped to altitude, then condensed for the down hill trip to users.
I still think it is doable and much more realistic and needed than a Gov. Moonbeam train to no where... The 64 billion for the train would be a good start on building it.
Two of the four highest-volume rivers in the world are in western Canada, emptying merrily into the Pacific Ocean.
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There has been talk among NAU types about shipping Canadian water south. But the more better/cheaper/efficient model removes the water from the Mississippi at Spring flood and ships it a SHORTER distance to the southwest.
Technically possible, absolutely.
Economically feasible, not even close.
man-made canals from the north would make more sense
at the price of water in some parts of the state, a desalination plant would make sense
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