Posted on 05/04/2015 11:04:44 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Leak Mead – on your left, when you drive from Las Vegas across the Hoover Dam – is the largest reservoir in the country when at capacity. It’s fed by the Colorado River which provides water for agriculture, industry, and 40 million people in Nevada, Arizona, California, and Mexico, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. Now after 15 years of drought, the “lake” – a mud puddle surrounded by a huge chalky bathtub ring – is threatening to run dry.
It’s considered “operationally full” when the water level is at 1,229 feet elevation above sea level. On May 2, the water level was down to 1,078.9 feet above sea level, the lowest since it was being filled in May 1937. It’s down 15 feet from the same day a year ago. Over the last 36 months, the water level has dropped 44.8 feet. It’s down 150 feet from capacity.
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Living in a desert may have some consequences...
The Colorada is WAY oversubscribed for withdrawls outside of its basin.
I’m reminded of Rodney Crowell’s line in the song ‘Come on funny feeling”:
Planting palm trees in the desert makes no sense to me at all
Deciding to live in a place without a reliable natural water supply is just fundamentally stupid. Sadly, the modern post industrial world, allows an encourages people to make insanely stupid decisions.
If California would ignore the envirowhackos (I know, not going to happen) and build some reservoirs to capture the water that falls on their own state, it would certainly help and perhaps alleviate the problem altogether. As with electric cars, they live in a fantasy world where they believe that they can have the benefits without the necessary trade offs. You want water?... Well then you have to live with construction of additional reservoirs.
Cue Sam Kinison, dubbing “water” for “food”.
This past Saturday’s Joe Bastardi forecast has him riffing a bit on drought conditions and population increases. When Lake Mead was built, Las Vegas was little more than a rest stop on the way to Kali.
http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Turbulent-Thrilling-Building-Hoover/dp/141653217X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430763688&sr=1-1&keywords=collosus
I think we could see a mass migration out of California and the southwestern USA if the water situation gets critical.
Want to raise the water level in Lake Mead? Cut off the outgoing flow. Its that simple.
Or, let the water keep flowing to California so that they can keep their tropical rainforest philodendrons and 50,000 square miles of Kentucky bluegrass lawns alive and municipal water fountains gushing in the middle of a hostile arid desert, pretending like the metro areas in their state are naturally as lush as Nicaragua.
My solution is to cut off California's water supply entirely and force them to subsist on only their own state's natural *organic* water sources. Rip out all the lawns and let it go back to a windblown desert landscape of rolling tumbleweeds like it's naturally supposed to be.
California cannot subsist on itself. They're an artificial construct demanding that neighboring states keep them functioning in perpetuity, no matter what -- even if they welcome half of Central America to come stay on the public dime. They pay taxicab meter fees for water and power to keep their grand social experiment going and threaten to sue everyone who won't keep the electricity and water flowing.
Meanwhile, they're even contracting their criminal justice system out to neighboring states to house tens of thousands of their criminal inmates that California sentences every year.
Oddly, God did not intend for tumbleweeds to roll thru CA.
They’re native to Eurasia and were accidentally imported.
Formally known as “Russian Thistle”.
Tumbleweeds replace water
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31610418/ns/weather/t/federal-water-czar-assigned-california/#.VUfDVC44iSo
Nice fire hazard
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/tumbleweeds-yard-california/
What to end the water crisis in the west? Deport the 10’s of millions of illegals here who consume about 1 trillion gallons of water a year.
Yup.
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When the original water allotments were given out, it was on the basis of an assessment of 17 million acre feet of water
per year. The only problem was that was an unusually high
estimate. The actual yearly average was much lower.
For years CA to more of their assessment since the other
states never took their allowed amount.....and then they
did. When AZ finished the CAP canal, their Colorado water usage almost doubled and CA had to cut back to their legal
limits.
Plus, via a Treaty with Mexico, they get 1 million acre
feet a year.
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