Posted on 06/14/2022 4:27:33 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change, the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce risks of supplies reaching perilously low levels, a top federal water official said Tuesday.
Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said during a Senate hearing in Washington that federal officials now believe protecting “critical levels” at the country’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — will require much larger reductions in water deliveries.
“A warmer, drier West is what we are seeing today,” Touton told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “And the challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history.”
The needed cuts, she said, amount to between 2 million acre-feet and 4 million acre-feet next year.
For comparison, California is entitled to 4.4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water per year, while Arizona’s allotment is 2.8 million acre-feet.
The push for a new emergency deal to cope with the Colorado River’s shrinking flow comes just seven months after officials from California, Arizona and Nevada signed an agreement to take significantly less water out of Lake Mead, and six weeks after the federal government announced it is holding back a large quantity of water in Lake Powell to reduce risks of the reservoir dropping to a point where Glen Canyon Dam would no longer generate electricity.
Despite those efforts and a previous deal among the states to share in the shortages, the two reservoirs stand at or near record-low levels. Lake Mead near Las Vegas has dropped to 28% of its full capacity, while Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border is now just 27% full.
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Trump’s fault no doubt.
It took 12 words to get to climate change.
Climate change like masks can never be questioned
In the past 50 years, CA population quadrupled.
Not a single dam was built, and many were destroyed.
There’s a ‘shortage’, except for the green lawns out in front of corporate HQ’s and gov. buildings.
Oh, and we allow most of the Sacramento Delta [more than enough for the entire Southwest] to drain into the Pacific. To save a 2 inch fish. That lives literally everywhere.
So FU, LA Times, for pretending otherwise.
We cold make the state as green as we want, if they’d simply
desalinate sea water. They refuse to do it, because they
need this issue like they needed COVID, the herd the masses.
How I despise these people.
The LA Times could advocate for good policy, but they are
as slimy as it gets.
Just think of all the global warming study money that could’ve been spent working on desalination.
Build a pipeline to bring water to lake Powell.
The LA Slime must be getting desperate. Click on the site and you get an internet offer of six months for one dollar. That is one dollar I will not waste. I hope that leftist billionaire who bought it goes under along with his entire crew.
Who will miss this rabid leftist rag? While Gannet is throttling its opinion pages, the LA Slime has no worries—it’s opinion page is the front cover and everything but the OP ed page. What a joke of a “newspaper.”
Not the first drought to hit the area. There was a 25 year long drought in 1275-1300AD.
100 years ago there was a group of non-human aliens who built the superstructures in California that harnessed and transported water from the mountains, to people near the coast, and could maintain a population twice as large as existed then.
50 years ago, the population started approaching the capacity of what the non-human aliens built, and rather than expanding the superstructures, the people of California decided that they’d figure out a way to live with ever-tightening water.
It was their choice...and now they pay.
Time to build a border fence at the California state line.
There will be about 20 to 30 million democrats, other libtards and illegals looking to escape the living hell they created as they destroyed California
and we can’t allow any more of them to escape and infect the rest of the nation with their liberal idiocy.
It also might be a good idea to just continue the fence line straight north through Oregon and Washington right to the Canadian border.
And maybe build a few gates here and there to allow conservatives and republicans to escape.
Back just before Johnny Carson began hosting the Tonight Show,
Reason #3 why we relocated out of CA.
So.CA is like a supermassive black hole consuming everything, including cash. You could fill Lake Powell with the water from millions of CA swimming pools. What a colossal waste!
And when it rains there, trillions of gallons flow out to sea via giant concrete gutters they call rivers. I've seen them 20' deep, 60 yards across, with water flowing at 20 mph, all the way to the ocean.. They're too stupid and greedy to build reservoirs to capture all that water, as they wouldn't be able to charge those increasingly higher water rates in CA.
Stated like it was a fact instead of a theory
I don’t buy it.
But if so, make more dams.
Two birds with one stone, as this could alleviate flooding on the Mississippi.
Arguments against:
1. Nasty pipelines/canals desecrating sacred Indian homelands.
2. Chinese fish in Mississippi will be able to get into the Green and Colorado Rivers.
3. It'll be TOO expensive.
4. It's not sufficiently green
So droughts never happened before man and his evil SUV’S? It’s all climate change’s fault. If I remember correctly, when the original settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, Virginia was in the middle of a historic drought. I doubt the indians and settlers were worried about climate change.
Also, if you measure all the dimensions and do the proper math you get the Golden Ratio and certain parts of the dams point to certain constellations which is where the aliens probably came from.
We know the dams were built by superintelligent aliens from another planet because we have no idea how mere humans could do that.”
Or perhaps they were the Chinese, as they recently built the 3 Gorges. When did we last build something of that magnitude?
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