'Moment of reckoning:' Federal official warns of Colorado River water supply cuts

Yahoo News ^ | June 15, 2022 | Ben Adler

[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.

[4Runner]

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?

[fireman15]

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.

[Chickensoup]

so people are obeying these suicidal orders???

[fireman15]

Non Hispanic Caucasian people are down by over 20 million in the last ten years.

[oldasrocks]

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.

[crz]

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.

[kaktuskid]

It may be time to talk about desalinization plants.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It may be time to talk about destalinization plants.

[katana]

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.

[TheDon]

Agreed. California just rejected the proposed Huntington Beach, CA desalination plant.

[gundog]

There used to be a loudmouth Californian that advocated for a pipeline from the mouth of the Columbia River to the LA area.

[Magnum44]

Cant let the water in Lake Meade or Lake Powell drop any further...no telling what bodies might turn up

[hinckley buzzard]

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.

[CedarDave]

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!!

[anoldafvet]

If they drop much further, power generation will be curtailed. Guess which state will be impacted most?

[CedarDave]

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.

[CedarDave]

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.

[taxcontrol]

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.

[Quentin Quarantino]

Your words in #9 are solid gold. May I quote you?

[catnipman]

““And the challenges we are seeing today are unlike anything we have seen in our history.””

even before Lake Mead & Lake Powell existed?