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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The guy always tried to play on Oregonians’ sympathies by saying that the little ninos in LA didn’t have water in their swimming pools. We don’t care.
Page Arizona, Yep. Now that they have destroyed their coal fired power plants it will start to dry up.
A real question about now...
Is this really necessary, or is another of Biden’s minions
seeking to cause still more disruption on a whim?
I recognize the Colorado River is under stress, but the
Left doesn’t know how to evaluate things and act with
rational actions.
We’ve got all the water we need in Southern California, and
for other states too, if we’d just follow Israel’s lead.
Southern California has sucked other regions of the state
dry, and we should have sought an alternate strategy long
before this.
Smaller nuclear plants along the coast are needed to keep
the lights on, and desalinization plants in conjunction
would make incredible changes for good in the state and
beyond.
Ten to twenty of these should more than do it, and if
constructed properly, you wouldn’t even know they were
there.
Wasn’t that because it was proposed to be built in an earthquake fault zone?
Desalinization requires lots of energy and Cakifornia is out of tht too.
No, it was because it makes sense.
Bullet trains to nowhere, now that’s the ticket!
Let me guess...
A stolen election seems to be affecting all aspects of life. Everything seems sh1ttier and broken.
Casinos use less than 1% of the whole year’s allocation for the whole state of Nevada. To the tune of 40+ million visitors per year and 13.4 billion in revenes for the economy. There is not a more efficient water use for economic outcome anywhere in the southwest. Nevada is allocated 300,000 acre feet per year for the whole.state not just Vegas from the Colorado River. They use less than that every year and bank excess water rights into Lake Mead. They also recycle every drop that hits a drain in the basin back to Lake Mead in a feat of water engineering only equaled by the Israelis.
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2018/may/10/the-strip-might-use-less-water-than-you-think/
Those fountains are watered with a private shallow well that is not potable water it’s to much ppm solids for human use. Shallow ground water in the Las Vegas Valley is largely from what little rain the valley gets and run off plus vadose zone infiltration from irrigation of lawns and landscapes in the valley.
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/14/how-much-water-evaporates-bellagio-fountains/
Nice straw man argument but nope.
Another paraphrase, this one from W.C. Fields: "We take ourselves too seriously. God's merely trying to guess our weight."
A showdown over Colorado River water is setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle
The federal government wanted seven western states that rely on the river to decide how to cut up to 30% of its water allocation. But there’s one holdout: California.
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