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Posted on 04/27/2026 12:41:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
This winter, the Upper Colorado Basin saw some of the lowest snow totals in recorded history. As a result, federal officials made a decision to limit water releases from Lake Powell downstream in the coming months. Officials say that will result in substantial drops in Lake Mead's elevation.
"All we’re seeing are depletions,” Kyle Roerink, advocate with the Great Basin Water Network, said.
“We are dealing with changing snowpacks, changing runoff patterns, increasing evaporation rates, drier soils, and other natural phenomena that are depleting our bank accounts and our savings accounts," he said.
Water managers face an encroaching deadline for the river and are expected to make key decisions by October on how to divvy up the shrinking Colorado River going forward. Negotiations between the seven basin states take place behind closed doors, leaving much of the public in the dark about what cuts could be coming down the pike.
"The state of negotiations right now is another unprecedented consideration that we are grappling with here in the desert Southwest. We have never seen all the states at loggerheads as they are right now. We have seen other states go toe-to-toe over the years, but never anything quite like this, and it is weighing heavily over the managerial decision-making, such as this issue that we're talking about right now," Roerink said.
"We really don't know how things will work yet in 2027 and in 2028. But what we do know is that reservoir levels are going to be at their lowest levels ever. And so this is a dark cloud hanging over us, and unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it will be spitting out any water in the near future," he continued.
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Perhaps it could get a loan from the Atmospheric River?
Only 4.74 years left. I’ve purchased a girding kit. Slightly used on Ebay.
More Climate Change Hoax scare tactics.
Excellent. I love it. ;o)
Now and then this idea comes up but goes nowhere
Bad idea. It’s like Georgia fighting over the Tennessee/Georgia border so that Atlanta can siphon off part of the Tennessee River.
The bomb cyclone is offering lower rates.
How about no private pools at home?...no watering golf courses in desert areas ?
We (Tennessee) are not going to ever surrender to GA.
will definitelt get interesting, I have a home at the river and a well, but I will be one of the last to run out of water because of where I am. They should just shut off California and the problem is solved.
We were there last in September 2021 and the only ramp open in the SW end at Page, AZ was a ramp that had been under water for 40 years.
They used that opportunity to extend the Stateline Auxiliary Ramp but it is currently only 7.66’ above usable elevation and dropping about 9” or so a week.
Without the manmade Hoover dam... There is no ‘Lake Mead’.
At least they acknowledge this... ‘natural phenomena’... And then there is this terminology... ‘desert Southwest’.
There are 15 dams on the Colorado river and the thing about all these dams... They bring water to the desert... Deserts are supposed to be dry... Not wet... So if you have any water at all, be happy about it... If you don’t have water.. Well then just accept it... You live in a desert.
Water supply is only part of the issue = California is taking too much Colorado river water = should install desalination plants along the Pacific ocean and stop dumping so much snow melt water into the ocean = build more dams in California..
LA also killed Owens valley when they stole from the farmers / ranchers there and ..
The Klamath river is undergoing a large dam removal , with four dams.. = farmers need water to grow food
Never fear…our government will spend billions more of our taxpayer money on chem-trail cloud seeding. There will be plenty of rain!
“California is taking too much Colorado river water = should install desalination plants along the Pacific ocean”
California could stop taking any water from the Colorado River using desalination and serious water reclamation. Check out what Israel has done and continues to do in this regard if you have any doubts.
As the solar maximum declines and ushers in the cosmic ray nucleation of clouds, snow, rain, etc. Someday, AI will correlate solar activity with earth’s weather cycles. We’ll probably have space aliens before then. SMDH
But did the “experts” first do a “study”?
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