Posted on 04/16/2022 2:32:48 PM PDT by blam
The megadrought in the US West continues to wreak havoc as Federal officials weigh reducing water deliveries downstream on the Colorado River to prevent shuttering of a massive dam that provides power to millions of people, according to AP News.
Last month, Lake Powell dropped 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. This has caused officials at the Interior Department to propose holding back water at the dam to maintain the dam’s ability to generate power.
Tanya Trujillo, the Interior’s assistant secretary, warned if Lake Powell drops below 3,490 feet (1,063 meters), it will produce electrical grid uncertainty for the western part of the US, potentially affecting up to five million customers across Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. ,/B>
“We’re in crisis management, and health and human safety issues, including production of hydropower, are taking precedence,” said Jack Schmidt, director of the Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University.
The record low water level also comes as researchers have found the US West has been experiencing some of the driest conditions in more than 1,200 years.
Over the decade, drought conditions have worsened. Several major Californian reservoirs have dried up, forcing people to evacuate their boats and causing hydroelectric plants to shutter due to insufficient water supplies to spin turbines.
Reservoirs across California are well below their historical averages (as of Apr. 14).
According to the US Drought Monitor data, the US West is experiencing severe to extreme drought conditions.
New forecasts by federal government meteorologists may suggest drought conditions could deteriorate even more as there’s a 59% chance of La Niña for the Northern Hemisphere through summer. What this would mean is drier conditions.
Most of the snow pack is likely still packed.
lake powell is in a desert, but the colorado river watershed is in the rocky mountains ...
70% of all Arizona’s water goes to agriculture, growing cotton, alfalfa and nuts in the desert. The hay mostly goes to China. The nuts almost all go to either China or Europe. Not sure about the cotton.
Seems it is time to tell the foreign owned nut farms “No more!”
Touche’. A desert that historically has been sparsely populated, but now is expected to supply water to tens of millions of wasteful users. Johnny Carson once nailed it by noting how California homeowners would spend a hundred gallons of water chasing leaves off their driveway with a garden hose, rather than just using a leaf blower. Or a rake.
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Your NWO criminals at work. See GeoengineeringWatch.org and get an idea of what is really going on. Drought in the West and massive thunderstorms and tornados in the East. Even back in the days of LBJ, “he who controls the weather will control the world”. Been going on ever since we brought those NAZI scientist over in the 40s and 50s.
There is a special place in Hell where they'll do just that for eternity.
The western Rockies have been delivering less and less to the Colorado River for at least a decade if not 20 or more years.
Arizona should obtain rights from Mexico to build a desaliniztion plant/s in the Gulf of California. The cost/terms might have to be that some % of the water has to be sold to northern Mexico customers.
“””This has caused officials at the Interior Department to propose holding back water at the dam to maintain the dam’s ability to generate power.”””
This makes no sense. Are they currently letting water go over the spillway?????
It’s not that far from the Gulf of California to the Salton Sea...a saltwater pipeline doesn’t sound like a difficult thing to do.
Nice straw man but won’t help in reality. All urban use of water in California is only 10% of total water use of that half or 5% is residential the rest is commercial and.industrial use. So even assuming half of California residents are illegals which they are not that’s only 2.5% of total use. California gets 7 million acres feet of water from the Colorado River compact that’s enough for 100 million people plus. They use 5 million acre feet per year to water alfalfa grass in the desert than needs 60” of water per square foot per year to grow. That’s FIVE feet of water per year per sqft clearly that’s a dumb idea.
Here how about some actual facts not a straw man. Illegals are a problem but in reality the residents legal or not in California are just a drop in the bucket compared to cooperate agriculture and their lobby groups.
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
exactly
I would like to dive on the B- 29 bomber in Lake mead
You probably know about those explorer dudes who started a business of solving cold-case disappearances where it looked like someone may have gone into the water but no one ever found that person?
They’ve solved a whole bunch of disappearances to this point.
Kind of off-topic, I guess. But that’s cool. (However, I would really hate to find bodies that have been in the water that long.)
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