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Colorado River seen as depleting regional resource
Yahoo News ^ | December 12, 2012 | KEN RITTER | Associated Press

Posted on 12/12/2012 4:21:46 PM PST by Uncle Chip

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1 posted on 12/12/2012 4:21:58 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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allocate the water to the Indian tribes and cut off the supply to Tucson...


2 posted on 12/12/2012 4:24:30 PM PST by ptsal (E)
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To: Uncle Chip

Obama practical measures...

Low flow toilets.
Mandatory low flow toilets.
Shower with a friend.
Shower with strangers.
Mandatory shower with strangers.
Sponge baths.
Mandatory sp well you see where it goes.

Those with enough water are not paying their fair share etc.


3 posted on 12/12/2012 4:30:14 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

I tip my full glass of water (over) in your honor.


4 posted on 12/12/2012 4:32:27 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: Uncle Chip
Salazar seems to wreck everything he touches. I suspect a federal takaway form those that own the water rights.
5 posted on 12/12/2012 4:37:03 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Water, the ‘blue gold’

resource wars coming


6 posted on 12/12/2012 4:38:30 PM PST by onona (tapping fingers)
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To: tet68

Does it end with city dwellers being taken by cattle car trains to their last shower?


7 posted on 12/12/2012 4:39:02 PM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: null and void

Usually, then there is no water and the soap is made out
of stone.

Maybe he’ll fix it so we can drink all we want but have
to recycle our urine to the colorado river basin.


8 posted on 12/12/2012 4:47:16 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Uncle Chip
technically impractical some ideas in the study, including piping water from the nation's heartland or towing Arctic icebergs south to help such thirsty U.S. cities as Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Who had the idea of towing ice bergs to those cities? Congressman Hank (Guam might tip over) Johnson?

9 posted on 12/12/2012 4:47:59 PM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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They need to tap the swimming pools of all the homeowners from Palm Springs to Orange County. There’s got to be enough water there to slake the thirsts of Phoenicians for 10 years or more.


10 posted on 12/12/2012 4:52:21 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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Salazar was 100% for illegal immigration as a Colorado politician. Now he wants to steal Colorado water so ‘his’ people in SoCal can have plenty.


11 posted on 12/12/2012 4:54:11 PM PST by STYRO (Do not accept unconstitutional government as legitimate government.)
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To: Graybeard58
That wasn't even the worst of it. There were more:

Salazar bluntly dismissed proposals like the multi-billion dollar pipeline running some 670 miles from the Missouri River to Colorado. Tapping the Mississippi, Green, Bear, Snake, Yellowstone and Columbia rivers also made a list of options that Bureau of Reclamation spokesman Kip White said weren't currently getting serious consideration.

12 posted on 12/12/2012 4:57:10 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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What they should do is quit allowing the Platte River (Nebraska) to flow into the Missouri River and instead drill some large boreholes along it and pump that water into the ground to replenish the Ogallala Aquifer.


13 posted on 12/12/2012 5:01:12 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: tet68

Simple, just build a dam across the south end of the Grand Canyon and let it fill up! Problem solved!..........


14 posted on 12/12/2012 5:03:02 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: null and void

No, probably ranchers, farmers and mines that own water rights that the government needs.


15 posted on 12/12/2012 5:04:14 PM PST by tiki
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To: tet68

close the bellagio and every other casino on the strip


16 posted on 12/12/2012 5:08:40 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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No, just turn the water off.

I ‘m just surprised this administration hasn’t decided
to tow icebergs down from the artic before they all
melt from globull warming.


17 posted on 12/12/2012 5:11:34 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Uncle Chip

“We need to reduce our demand through conservation”

Key sentence. They will use this to as yet another opportunity to make us live with less freedom and growth


18 posted on 12/12/2012 5:17:10 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Uncle Chip

Eliminating residential swimming pools is probably the smartest suggestion of all and certainly easily doable without spending any tax money. Why aren’t you in Washington?


19 posted on 12/12/2012 5:19:10 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: mountainlion
I suspect a federal takaway form those that own the water rights.

Probably in the future and problems with who has precedence in water allocation. I believe that the root of the problem is in water allocations from before 1950 that used the prior 20 years average flow. Unfortunately studies have since estimated that they managed to use the wettest 30 year period in the last thousand.

20 posted on 12/12/2012 5:21:46 PM PST by Fraxinus (My opinion, worth what you paid.)
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