Posted on 05/02/2022 4:31:59 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The Gods from prior generations who built Hoover Dam and the entire water infrastructure in the Western US are mostly dead, or at least certainly retired.
We must give credit where it’s due - they built out at least 50 years, so that their kids, grand kids, and great grand kids could Virtue Signal by opposing any more build-out and in fact by throwing much of the capability away, such as where huge amounts of water that could have been used to help Lake Mead gets thrown away east of San Francisco to ‘save the Delta Smelt’. Not to mention preventing the limitless and nearly cost-free water available via desalinization.
Now, as the saying goes, their Chickens have come home to Roost. Hope they enjoy the ride.
“The rainy season is over. Summer and heat is coming. The lake storage is gone. The river is low. More drought is coming...
“Southern California as the desert it is, is doomed.”
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You should write all of the movie trailers that start with “In a world...”
My thoughts exactly. The whole area is classified as desert. Deserts are dry. Just look at the native flora and fauna.
Yet man builds a few dams which reply on snowpack in the mountains and overbuild cities then whine about climate change when the artificial lakes dip down.
Here in AZ, DemoKKKrat Carl Hayden at least got this right: he spent his whole time getting half the Colorado River water for AZ. For the most part, those of us in below the Rim have desert landscaping, and over the next few years, I think the conversion from the old-style grass will continue.
It is about 276 miles from Las Vegas to the largest water supply on earth. 1 desalination plant, 1 massive pipeline, several pumping stations, powered by some thorium reactors would go a long way to solve their water shortage.
I think it call your sanity to question if you’ve ever seen Las Vegas from the air — decorative fountains, swimming pools, sprawling, verdant golf courses and all — and didn’t recognize what an aberration it is.
Can’t, they have an apportioned amount by law.
Even worse, the greenies in charge of the cali coastal commission won’t allow the building of desalination plants. Totally insane. We are now getting more California transplants here in NC. Home values are skyrocketing.
Same thing in Tennessee. Can’t buy an average home in Nashville under $200000. Don’t know many native Tennesseans who can.
Progressives are like locust, they land, devour everything possible and fly off to their next target to destroy. Thing is they are running out of places to fly off too and devour.
Very true. I can remember when California was a reliable gop state. That was before liberals from the east coast invaded it.
Now that they fouled it they are fleeing for unspoiled pastures.
That was piss. The brown foliage was sh…. Never mind
Yup. Only morons put cities like that in a desert. The fact that there are water fountains in the city just highlight the idiocy.
Las Vegas is second only to Israel in water recycling more than 99% of every drop that hits a drain. Casinos use less than 1% of Nevada’s yearly water allocation from the Colorado River which is only 300,000 acre feet for the whole state vs 7 million for California. Those fountains never use drinking water that’s all reclaimed effluent from sewerage system think about that the next time you are down wind and the most hits you ha. Seriously Vegas is the USA leader in water recycling bar none. That city gets 40 million people per year staying an average of 3 days each and uses less than it’s 300,000 acre feet per year.Nevada banks water every year out of its 300,000 river compact allotment they have for the last ten years banked water. So who are the water wasters Nevada who uses less than it’s allotments the smallest barely a rounding error to California or California growing rice, almonds and alfalfa hay in the desert using five million acre feet on just the Alfalfa hay alone a large amount of that is shipped to Saudi Arabia to feed their cattle. Looking at real data and real amounts it’s California who are the water hogs Nevada got the short end of the stick and ran with it making a money making machine in the desert with relatively tiny amounts of water. Casino’s are less than 1% of 300,000 acre feet and bring in billions per year. California uses 40% of its water for agriculture and that is only 2% of California’s gross State product. Read that again they use 40% of their water supply to produce 2% of GSP and that’s millions of acre feet tens of millions actually. Nevada uses less than 1% of 300,000 to generate 56% of its GSP who is the water waster and who is making sound fiscal returns on their water supply.
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2018/may/10/the-strip-might-use-less-water-than-you-think/
https://www.snwa.com/water-resources/current-water-supply/index.html
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