Posted on 07/31/2014 5:34:47 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
In 2000, Lake Mead was just about full. Then a drought hit that has more or less continued to this day.
As a result, the level of Lake Mead has steadily dropped. At full capacity, the lake’s level is 1,221.4 feet above mean sea level. Today its level is at 1,080.9 feet, the lowest it has been since 1937, just after the completion of Hoover Dam.
Even more striking, 77 percent of that loss – some 41 million acre-feet – was water stored underground. That’s enough to meet the home water use of the entire US population for eight years.
(Excerpt) Read more at newswatch.nationalgeographic.com ...
There’s not really a solution to this one.
Use less water, basically.
Looks like the government water take over is being over different sources.
Does this mean that Los Angeles will dry up and blow away?
In other words, we're taking more out of it than has gone into it on average. Well, liberals might think that's ok, they're used to deficit spending. But in another few years it is simply going to run out. Then no amount of arguing or finger pointing is going to put more water in.
The southwest must use less water. They can do it voluntarily, now, or in a few years they won't have a choice.
Imagine sending every illegal home....imagine not planting water sucking landscaping plants by illegal landscapers..
Gov. Perry opening Texas for new business just has put an increased pressure on low water resourses so there is little good water news here.
Just a week ago Gov. Moonbeam placed restrictions on watering your yard and washing the car. HUH?
Been under a drought for years and just now getting around the watering restrictions? Crazy!
Here in Raleigh area we have lawn watering restrictions most all the time.
Cary, every other day, never on Monday.
Too many people living in the desert and too much reliance on farming in a desert.
The people can stay but they need to accept the fact that they live in a desert. It rains every 20 minutes where I live and I accept it as being the way things are.
As far as farming is concerned, we need to regionally diversify our farming anyway. Not many tomatoes in my garden this year but the green veggies are booming in the cool wet weather.
The solution is for LA, San Diego, and Mexico to build sea water desalination plants like Santa Barbara [ which should be restarted as the city sold off parts to a Saudi Arabia ].
And send the illegals back home.
There are places in this country where it actually rains where some of those central valley crops could also be grown. I sometimes wonder whether the massive government subsidization of agriculture in California is a very intelligent policy.
There are places in this country where it actually rains where some of those central valley crops could also be grown. I sometimes wonder whether the massive government subsidization of agriculture in California is a very intelligent policy.
Sure there is. Just pay Canada for the use of the water in some of their millions of fresh lakes. Pipe it in. Canada would't miss the water, and they'd sure like the money. I'm sure California could afford it by reducing their welfare load.
We can not build ANY pipelines from Canada!
Haven’t you heard.
(sarc)
Good one. Yes, all that spilled, fresh water would pollute the earth. Anyway, the enviro-wackos would find some reason to oppose it. It would destroy the habitats of too many disease-carrying mosquitoes or black flies. (snicker)
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