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'Moment of reckoning:' Federal official warns of Colorado River water supply cuts
Yahoo News ^
| June 15, 2022
| Ben Adler
Posted on 06/16/2022 8:22:32 AM PDT by 4Runner
The Colorado River’s reservoirs have diminished to the point that significant cuts to the water supplied to the seven states that rely on it will be necessary next year, a federal official warned Tuesday.
Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee maintaining “critical levels” at the largest reservoirs in the United States — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — will require large reductions in water deliveries.
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TOPICS: Government; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: coloradoriver; water; watersupply
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Population of the U.S. as of the 2020 Census 329 million. Total Hispanic population 60 million. You think maybe excessive demand from the illegal alien border-jumping juggernaut rather than a decrease in supply just might have had something to do with the drop in the water level at Lake Mead, you climate-changing idiots?
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:22:32 AM PDT
by
4Runner
To: 4Runner
We are having the wettest and coldest Spring on record in the Northwest. Too bad we can't arrange a little swap for some sunshine.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:26:35 AM PDT
by
fireman15
(Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
To: 4Runner
so people are obeying these suicidal orders???
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:27:01 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
To: 4Runner
Non Hispanic Caucasian people are down by over 20 million in the last ten years.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:28:32 AM PDT
by
fireman15
(Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
To: fireman15
No bathing will be allowed in californicate shortly. That should help with social distancing.
In other news they find it is hard to dig an outhouse when everything is concreted over. Honey pots will be handed out to alleviate the fertilizer shortage.
To: 4Runner
They simply WILL NOT, harvest monsoon rain water. Wont.
Thats how GD pig headed and ignorant these people are.
BUT, if the federal government offers a large sum of money to start? The Mormons will line up like a line at a whore house in the red light district on a Friday night.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:36:06 AM PDT
by
crz
To: oldasrocks
It may be time to talk about desalinization plants.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:36:07 AM PDT
by
kaktuskid
To: kaktuskid
It may be time to talk about destalinization plants.
To: 4Runner
The Southwest corner of the United States is a desert. It has been a desert for most likely the same period as any and all the other desert regions around the globe, which at one time boasted Ice Age era savannahs, rivers, and long lost human habitations. Our Southwest was blessed with a massive river fed by the snow melt of a continental spanning mountain range. But that river should never have been expected to sustain indefinitely the tens of millions of people and industries now occupying the region and sucking it and its reservoirs dry.
As George Carlin once quipped, we don't have to worry about "taking care of the planet". Inevitably, the planet is gonna take care of us.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:45:29 AM PDT
by
katana
To: kaktuskid
Agreed. California just rejected the proposed Huntington Beach, CA desalination plant.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:48:32 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(Resist the usurpers)
To: kaktuskid
There used to be a loudmouth Californian that advocated for a pipeline from the mouth of the Columbia River to the LA area.
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:49:15 AM PDT
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: 4Runner
Cant let the water in Lake Meade or Lake Powell drop any further...no telling what bodies might turn up
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posted on
06/16/2022 8:51:10 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: 4Runner
80 percent of Colorado River water is used for agriculture. If it is necessary to cut allocations from above the dams in order to keep power generators functioning, that is where the cuts will hit. Food production will suffer and prices will rise even more.
To: katana
Lake Powell has dropped so much that previously buried slot canyons and natural sandstone bridges in Glen Canyon have reemerged. Some are proposing that these features be preserved by limiting the amount of water that can be stored behind the dam.
Hayduke lives!!
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posted on
06/16/2022 9:08:20 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
To: Magnum44
If they drop much further, power generation will be curtailed. Guess which state will be impacted most?
To: gundog
There used to be a loudmouth Californian that advocated for a pipeline from the mouth of the Columbia River to the LA area. Infrastructure money should be spent to do just that.
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posted on
06/16/2022 9:12:12 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
To: anoldafvet
Page Arizona, the town above the dam location, will lose much of its power if Lake Powell drops much further. To meet clean energy needs, the adjacent coal powered generating station was shut down last year. You reap what you sow.
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posted on
06/16/2022 9:16:00 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
To: 4Runner
If there is going to be continued usage of the Colorado river basin, there needs to be a multi-state compact that builds and operates desalination and pumping plants that push water back up the mountains.
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posted on
06/16/2022 9:18:25 AM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
To: katana
Your words in #9 are solid gold. May I quote you?
To: 4Runner
““And the challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history.””
even before Lake Mead & Lake Powell existed?
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posted on
06/16/2022 9:30:25 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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