I just drove through Page, where the dam is, and the museum is closed. Covid I guess. I have spent a week on Lake Powell and loved it. What do they think they will gain by draining. I have heard many theories but the water is there and can be used to help out the COlorado River through this drought. The drought will end in a year or so, as they come in waves. Texas was in a drought for 5 years for almost the whole state, and then one month of rains finised that off.
Well, if I read the article correctly, it’s actually hurting downstream Colorado River. Lake Powell is a reservoir for a reservoir (Mead). Which actually sounds a little screwed up to me.
That and you end up with two massive bodies of water that the desert air sucks up in addition to encouraging everyone else to suck up what’s left, which just exacerbates the situation. And California is the biggest suck for all all that water and they’re not even adjacent.
The mayor of Page actually sounds rather pragmatic and even optimistic in a way over the change in circumstances for his town.
Sacrameto, CA last week got over 6 inches of rain in three days, more than Sacto got in the entire 2020-2021 water season (July 1 to June 30). The Sierra ski resorts are open a month early and snowpack is huge.
I’ve lived in California for nearly 50 years and have been through many drought cycles with environmentalists going nuts in every cycle.
If you read Steinbeck (especially “To a God Unknown”), you learn that the California cycles of drought and plentiful rain have been happening for a long time.
“What do they think they will gain by draining.”
What I’ve discovered about most so called environmentalists is that they don’t give a crap about the environment.
What they care about is their “precious sensibilities”. In this case they would prefer a wild running river over what most people see as a beautiful lake and precious resource.
I don’t mind a wild running river but I also very much like a large lake with lots of water that can be used for agriculture, households, as a store during a dry period as a generator of CO2-free electricity, as a big recreation area...
These spoiled children are nothing but selfish, virtue signaling fools who drape who wrap themselves around “mother earth” as a way to get what they want.
Mother earth couldn’t care less whether there is a running river or a lake there or whether a big meteor hits it tomorrow and splits into smithereens. But for humans it makes a huge difference.
We took a trip through all the canyons of Arizona and Utah last year. The thing that hit me was that all those canyons were built by earth’s own DESTRUCTIVE forces, wind, rain, and erosions. If man were to do the same thing that earth did to itself these spoiled brats would go ballistic.
As a matter of fact we did - it’s called lake Powell, Lake Mead, beautiful skylines, etc, all just as beautiful as what nature created through its DESTRUCTIVE forces.
Why we, so called adults, let these pimpled faced, unclean, irresponsible spoiled brats have so much control over our lives is beyond me.