Posted on 08/19/2019 10:45:13 AM PDT by C19fan
Arizona and Nevada are facing the first-ever mandatory cuts in the amount of water they can take from the Colorado River next year.
The two states are among seven that have agreed to drought contingency plans for the river system that serves about 40 million people and 6,300 square miles of farmland from Wyoming to Southern California.
The cuts are triggered by water levels expected in Lake Mead, a giant reservoir on the river at the Arizona-Nevada border. On Jan. 1, Lake Mead's level is projected to be 1,089.4 feet, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said late last week. That's just below the drought contingency plan threshold of 1,090 feet, and it means cuts for Arizona and Nevada.
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Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half Of U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis
Trees reduce groundwater. Maybe the environmentalists are planting and protecting too many trees.
>Housing crash in Nev and Ariz?
Naw, just dead lawns in Vegas
I always love that old cartoon of an old guy like me pounding his keyboard and yelling downstairs to his wife, I cant come to dinner now, Martha, someone said something wrong on the internet. LOL.
And its rare when you are wrong.
And the trees are all made equal, with Hatchet, Axe and Saw.
IIRC, The United States uses about the same amount of water it did 50 years ago.
Barry Goldwaters long term plan for the Central Arizona Project was a aqueduct from the California coast to carry desalinated water to Arizona once the Colorado River capacity has been reached.
The plans and routes were put in place 40 years ago and nuclear power plants were located with an eye to provide power for desalination .
Pacific moisture gets wrung out as the weather lifts over the Sierra mountains so it falls mostly on the western side.
Yep. They made some really stupid water deals with Soviet California.
...Barry Goldwaters long term plan for the Central Arizona Project was a aqueduct from the California coast to carry desalinated water to Arizona once the Colorado River capacity has been reached....
hmmm since global warming is raising the ocean water levels (/s)that would be a good use of the excess seawater and prevent low lying areas on the coast from drowning...I think i will use that in my next “discussion” about global warming..
Just about a perfectly appropriate solution to the problem
Saudi Arabia is mining the water to grow alfalfa that is shipped to Saudi Arabia’s dairy herd.
Connect the dots.
Arizona oldtimers, in their wisdom, hated the whole CAP plan.
Colorado River water is sent by canal through the State. Phoenix uses it for agricuture and public parks etc.
Liberal Tucson sticks it in the ground after it has evaporatedefb. , pulls it up and chemicalizes it and uses it for drinking water. It is vile
...additionally, Canada gets a vote in the Great Lakes Compact...and if Michigan wasn’t eh only FU to the SW, Canada would have our back.
Maybe when we buy Greenland we can make Kaliphate-ornia import its ice from there?
Time to build Pipelines to get Water from where its plentiful to where it isnt.
Mostly Rockies I think.
Uh, may I suggest sending the democommies to other COUNTRIES not counties?
water cannot be piped out of the Great Lakes watershed ////
It would be cost prohibitive to pipeline water over the Rockies.
But your GLC would seem to make that a moot point.
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