Western residents face threat of water rationing as feds reduce water flow

FOX ^ | Jan. 28, 2014 | Kelly David Burke

[bgill]

This year, for the first time in history, lower flows in the Colorado River have prompted the federal government to reduce the amount of water flowing into Lake Mead reservoir outside Las Vegas. Bureau of Reclamation officials say if the river's level doesn't increase soon, there's a 50 percent chance that by next year, residents in Arizona, southern Nevada and California will have to start rationing water.

[bgill]

Kicking illegals out would reduce excessive use.

[stboz]

Got a half-inch of rain today in Fresno. That’s a fart in a whirlwind compared to what we need.

[SampleMan]

1. They built cities in the desert

2. They built an agricultural base in a desert, based on illegal labor, that put vegetable producers everywhere else in the U.S. out of business.

3. Given 1 & 2, its hard to have a lot of sympathy.

[TheDon]

And we don’t build desalination plants....

[MeshugeMikey]

Same Here in San Anselmo in Marin County...

Desalinization is in our future....but not this year.....

[VeniVidiVici]

Certainly there's a value in doing that but as you go forward do we want our cities going dry while we're growing cattle feed?"

Riiight. Quit raising cattle but let in more illegal aliens.

[RightOnTheBorder]

I’ll add #3 that they did not build reseviors durign the wet years becuase of “environmental concerns”

[sportutegrl]

We need that water to make corn for ethanol gas.

[Kackikat]

I guess that Lake under Albuquerque, NC is getting low now.

There go the showers, lawn watering, washing the dog, and doing laundry.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

There’s an Albuquerque, North Carolina?

[Jim Robinson]

We don’t need cattle anyway. Or vegetable farmers. We get all the meat and produce we want at Safeway.

[Kackikat]

ROFL...not that I know of, I meant NM...thanks.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Yes, desalination plants make far too much sense.

Nuclear plants on the shoreline (yes, I know about Fukushima) powers the grid during peak hours, desalinates the seawater during non-peak hours.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sam Kinison once did a skit about hunger in which he told of a camera crew filming poor people in rural Africa,He said "you know,I think I see the problem here.You see this? it's *sand*.And then he shouts,in that way of his,"maybe you're hungry BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN A DESERT.NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE!".

I have the same attitude toward those who live in the Southwest.Don't complain to me about water.You knew it was a desert when you moved there.

[Nuc 1.1]

The easy solution is desalinization of seawater. Not sure at present what technology is most efficient but using nuclear energy to power desalinization could get the job done.

[truth_seeker]

Environmentalists are fighting a desalization plant in my California coastal town.

[Veto!]

Yeah, the illegals use water. And everything else.

Desalinization seems called for. A lot of water in the Pacific.

[Veto!]

LOL

[Finalapproach29er]

I’m amazed neither party has proposed a De-salinization plant-pipeline for the 5-6 West coast states as a way of buying votes.

The republicans should propose this and see the reaction;they can’t hardly do any worse in California.

[1010RD]

Scarcity is the normal and natural state. Shortages are caused by government. The market would solve this problem as would private property rights.