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Arizona and Nevada Face First-Ever Mandatory Water Cuts from the Colorado River
Weather.com ^ | August 19, 2019 | Ron Brackett

Posted on 08/19/2019 10:45:13 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Buckeye McFrog
There is a Great Lakes Compact which says water cannot be piped out of the Great Lakes watershed without unanimous consent of all the Great Lakes states.

Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half Of U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis

21 posted on 08/19/2019 11:12:55 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: C19fan

Trees reduce groundwater. Maybe the environmentalists are planting and protecting too many trees.


22 posted on 08/19/2019 11:13:21 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: jimmygrace

>Housing crash in Nev and Ariz?

Naw, just dead lawns in Vegas


23 posted on 08/19/2019 11:14:12 AM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: A Navy Vet

I always love that old cartoon of an old guy like me pounding his keyboard and yelling downstairs to his wife, “I can’t come to dinner now, Martha, someone said something wrong on the internet.” LOL.

And it’s rare when you are wrong.


24 posted on 08/19/2019 11:15:35 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Moonman62
Trees reduce groundwater. Maybe the environmentalists are planting and protecting too many trees.

And the trees are all made equal, with Hatchet, Axe and Saw.

25 posted on 08/19/2019 11:16:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

IIRC, The United States uses about the same amount of water it did 50 years ago.


26 posted on 08/19/2019 11:17:02 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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 .


27 posted on 08/19/2019 11:17:38 AM PDT by rdcbn ( Referentia)
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To: A Navy Vet
A map of the Colorado River Basin

Pacific moisture gets wrung out as the weather lifts over the Sierra mountains so it falls mostly on the western side.

28 posted on 08/19/2019 11:19:57 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Regulator

Yep. They made some really stupid water deals with Soviet California.


29 posted on 08/19/2019 11:22:01 AM PDT by Luke21 (Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work, work.)
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To: rdcbn

...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..


30 posted on 08/19/2019 11:22:03 AM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace)
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To: rolling_stone

Just about a perfectly appropriate solution to the “ problem”


31 posted on 08/19/2019 11:23:38 AM PDT by rdcbn ( Referentia)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Saudi Arabia is mining the water to grow alfalfa that is shipped to Saudi Arabia’s dairy herd.

Connect the dots.


32 posted on 08/19/2019 11:30:35 AM PDT by ptsal
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33 posted on 08/19/2019 11:38:18 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: rolling_stone

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


34 posted on 08/19/2019 11:39:58 AM PDT by amihow
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To: Buckeye McFrog

...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?


35 posted on 08/19/2019 11:43:00 AM PDT by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: Kickass Conservative

Time to build Pipelines to get Water from where it’s plentiful to where it isn’t.


That’s actually a great idea. We have the technology. We have the water. Tell those casinos to cough up the cash.


36 posted on 08/19/2019 11:43:05 AM PDT by redshawk (Willie's Whore was bused......oh my...lying pig)
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To: A Navy Vet

Mostly Rockies I think.


37 posted on 08/19/2019 11:43:55 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Ex gun maker.

Uh, may I suggest sending the democommies to other COUNTRIES not counties?


38 posted on 08/19/2019 11:45:26 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

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.


39 posted on 08/19/2019 11:47:21 AM PDT by Ceebass (The only thing Orwell got wrong was the date)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Not only that but Canada has a formal stake in the Compact as well.
40 posted on 08/19/2019 11:51:27 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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