Posted on 06/14/2022 4:27:33 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
Sorry Tony but this particular drought is real.
In my part of the Colorado River Basin the drought has exasperated the cyclical bark beetle culling of old trees and right now about 90% of our forest is dead.
Hope you are able to get out of LA once in a while - come check it out.
PS - Sacramento River Basin and north is not where this article is about. But I do agree with you about that issue.
Did t I just read that they are having floods in Yellowstone that are washing up roads? I know Yellowstone is not Colorado, but somebody’s getting rain out there
From where? It’s up hill if your pipeline originates below the highest dam elevation of 3700ft.
Other than that the Green River - which becomes the Colorado - is already downhill to Powell. As well as the San Juan.
Good luck with this. I think most who don’t live in a place like Las Vegas look at it as a farce - The idea of unchecked growth in that climate. In the end you have no choice when the river runs dry, so get busy living or get busy dying
Where do you want to get the water from for said pipeline???
Check this site out - it is so cool! You can follow any stream or river in the US upstream or downstream.
I thought of that, too. Best I can make out, a bit father west and it could have hit the headwaters if the Colorado. The Yellowstone is a tributary of the Missouri so the flood waters are flowing the wrong way, from our point of view
BobL wrote:
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100 years ago there was a group of non-human aliens who built the superstructures in California that harnessed and transported water from the mountains, to people near the coast, and could maintain a population twice as large as existed then.
50 years ago, the population started approaching the capacity of what the non-human aliens built, and rather than expanding the superstructures, the people of California decided that they’d figure out a way to live with ever-tightening water.
It was their choice...and now they pay.
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The guys that did the documentaries about Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam would not agree with you as to who built those hydropower emplacements.
They were began during the Great Depression.
Soon to be renamed the Colorado Trench.
As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by liberal politicians…
There. Fixed it.
Four Later, Thanks
They might look like aliens now seeing as what they did would be deemed impossible now.
Here in the state of Washington the governor and a senator (Inslee and Murray) just came out with some “research paper” on what an economic boom would be created by tearing down 4 to 6 dams along the Columbia river!
Their “calculations” show that increased revenues due to increased salmon fishing would offset the other losses.
What a couple of idiots. Farming, energy and ports would go away - but we would reclaim it in salmon dinners.
Washinton and Oregon are getting lots of rain...80 year record broken...we sell power to Cali...and water, probably
ACG is NOT a theory. It is a HYPOTHESIS.
It’s a fraud.🤔
I don't think anyone denies that, but the effects on Westerners might be significantly less if other dams had been built in the last half century while the population doubled.
I guess Yellowstone Park is no longer in the West?
Canada? Lake Michigan? Oil pipelines work from Canada to Texas and some of that us uphill. California uses aqueducts and pipelines to provide southern California water over a mountain range. It’s just engineering folks.
Still, the bigger the lie and the more often it is told, it becomes truth.
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