Posted on 07/01/2022 7:34:52 AM PDT by crz
The Colorado River basin States have 60 days to come to an agreement or the feds determine the water use.
or the feds determine the water use = no one gets a drop
They’ll shut down some of the turbines at Glen Canyon and Hoover dam.
In flow at Lake Mead is around 11%..Outflow is at around 15%
Dont know how many turbines are at the Glen Canyon Dam but at the Hoover, there are 17.
“the feds determine the water use”
More accurately the DNC determines the water usage.
Upstream diversion for agriculture will be at risk. Irrigation uses more Colorado river water than people and cities. To keep the generators spinning will need the flow currently being diverted to crops.
Reduce turbine output by 40% to rebuild the lakes. Sorry SW, but your power generation is about to be reduced in the middle of summer. Bummer.
That’s right. Democrat run states Will get 1st priority. You’re out of luck AZ. Just wat all those 4 sale signs start popping up.
Shutting off water to the many golf courses would be a good start. Then the athletic fields.
California should get Zero water, since it’s no longer part of the US.
The majority population is now Mexican, whether “legal” or illegal, and the other Western states have no obligation to provide US water to a foreign populace pretending to be “the Americans in California”.
So turn off the water and power from Hoover and Glen Canyon.
Let the Americans in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Utah use it.
There are plenty of Mexicans in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and even Utah. I was in Provo a few years ago, and yes, there are Latino families in Provo.
The Indian Nations usage is around 30%
Used the be that Riverside Ca got about 80% of the power created at the Hoover Dam.
Dunno what it is now.
crz wrote:
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They’ll shut down some of the turbines at Glen Canyon and Hoover dam.
In flow at Lake Mead is around 11%..Outflow is at around 15%
Dont know how many turbines are at the Glen Canyon Dam but at the Hoover, there are 17.
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Have you a link to the data for inflow/outflow for lake Mead?
They might think so.
But Ca doesnt get diddly until it reaches below the Davis Dam..or below Laughlin NV proper.
Fu#k em..close off the Hoover Dam and shut down the turbines to Riverside Ca.
Shut the water line off at the Parker Dam.
Do a Search; Inflow and Outflow at lake Mead
We’ve had this conversation before.
Just 40 years ago, the “hispanic” population in Utah was <1%.
I remember. I was there.
In Arizona, it was around 15% in Tucson and like 10% in Phoenix.
But growing due to illegal immigration swelling in the mid-1970s.
But those states are nothing like what has happened in California, where the hispanic population went from ~ 5% in 1970 to about 45% now.
They are the plural majority.
So in my view, the other Western states are still saveable...but just barely.
California no longer has any legitimacy as an “American” state based on the population and its open hostility to ethnic Americans.
In addition to denying resources it should be stripped of any political power or influence over the rest of the US.
If Polk were around today, he’d fix the situation the way he did in 1846.
But that was when America was still run by Americans, instead of say, an Indo-Jamaican woman born in 1964 to foreign parents on student visas. Her nationality is an accident of geography and a lax interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
But she’s not an anomaly in California.
I don’t know about elsewhere but where I am in SoCal golf courses, parks and city landscaping is watered with reclaimed water, cemeteries too. The water district also pumps the purified water back into the aquifer. Maybe it would help if democrat crats didn’t import all these illegals to put extra strain on our water, power and sewage resources .
Phoenix doesn’t get its water from the Colorado.
California DOES.
The basin is composed of drainage basin area of about 246,000 square miles includes all of Arizona, and parts of California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming.
California has routinely consumed more water than alloted.
Conservation will not get us out of the mega drought. Nuke power plants, desalination plants, reverse pumping upstream to a chain of holding ponds, lakes and reservoirs will be required.
The rest of the states should cut California off 100%.
It has the entire Pacific Ocean if only it quit refusing to make maximum use of it. If it worked desalinization to the max it could wind up selling water to Nevada and Arizona, while lake Mead was allowed to get back to more historic levels.
All of what you said is absolutely true.
Imperial Valley in CA went over lately because they wanted to add water to the Salton Sea.
But...AZ in particular, and NV, have to start harvesting water instead of letting rain water run down dry washes and losing it. Now people think that a dry wash flood gets to the Colorado. Most of the time it doesnt. It simply evaporates/disappears before it gets to any running water source.
They say that 90% of the runoff from monsoon rains evaporates. Only when there is a slow soaking rain does that water sink into the ground and eventually end up in the ground water system.
CA has all the water they need or will ever need..just to their west.
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