Posted on 08/17/2022 11:54:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
For the first time, officials with the U.S. Department of Interior announced plans to operate in a “Tier 2 shortage,” Fox Weather reported. The plan includes increased cuts in water releases from Lakes Powell and Mead.
The new mandatory water cuts come after Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue to reach record lows due to climate change.
A megadrought and an increase in consumption from Lake Mead caused water levels to drop to an 80-year low.
Satellite images show the decreasing water levels. pic.twitter.com/T5tc7zzmMD
— FOX Weather (@foxweather) August 16, 2022
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People in the Colorado River Watershed, please flush your toilets, Arizona and Nevada need water!
So it has nothing to do with increased demand?
“Climate change”
Draining untold millions of liters of water for increased California population consumption by illegal immigrants so California democrats can seize power.
This story’s been floating, drifting around for about a week. There are strong arguments the water supply cut is deliberate to punish commercial users who are not on the Climate BS Bandwagon.
These lakes have not been full in years.....when they were built the population they served was nothing ...to today’s population....
The Rocky Mountains has a thirty year rain cycle plus or minus....
If you live in Arizona or Nevada, No Worries; according to the lib party line, Globull Warming is melting the ice caps and the water will come to you.
“continue to reach record lows due to climate change”.
Stated as an assumed fact.
Which it is not.
Ignoring all evidence of long term weather cycles.
California needs to build more reservoirs to capture the water that falls directly on them, rather than letting it just run off to the ocean, AND they should be looking at desalination. And only the residents of California should bear the cost of those remedies. So long as California can make idiotic choices and then leech off other states to avoid the consequences of those decisions, nothing will change. It’s time to start weaning California off Colorado River water entirely.
Training future enemies. IMHO.
Vegas needs more people, golf courses and swimming pools…🤣🤣🤣
Driven largely by the gains in Maricopa, the state population overall grew by 98,330 people last year, to just under 7.28 million on July 1.
The Census Bureau in December ranked Arizona as the third-fastest growing state last year, behind Texas and Florida.
I’m assuming that the population growth is directly related to water usage.
One of my buddies, a 70 yr Phoenix area resident, says all the golf courses, lawns, and pools have noticeably raised the humidity over the time he’s lived there.
Water in Arizona is an interesting study.
First let’s talk about ground water. The aquifer has been pulled down in the Phoenix valley and elsewhere. In the northwest valley this has caused the general grade to settle from 12 to 16 feet over the last 80 years.
Secondly, if you look at a 1/4 section of land, it uses more water as a multi crop agricultural field than as a habituated and xeno-drip subdivision with residents.
In AZ the Salt River project east and north of Phoenix and Tucson provides 60% of the water needs outside of ground water and the Colorado provides less than 40%. Along the Colorado basin it is of course the primary source.
Last, Arizona works to improve its water capture and use. Nevada and California do not. Water rates for domestic water are reasonable in Arizona while most in California are getting raped financially, often for dumb reasons and costs.
“Due to climate change” is just a polite way of saying too many clueless blue city people wasting too damn much water on lawns and pools...
“In AZ the Salt River project east and north of Phoenix and Tucson provides 60% of the water needs outside of ground water and the Colorado provides less than 40%.”
And the pipeline supplying north Phoenix with Salt River water (to offset potential Colorado River shortages) is making lots of progress. Lived here 25 years and agree that AZ has done a good job of water resource management vs. CA/NV - and I think the water rates are (comparatively) quite reasonable.
80 year low means that it was this low 80 years ago. I thought there wasn’t any climate change 80 years ago.
Funny how the parts of the USA with the highest amount of illegal invaders have the water shortage.
Two million more people just this year flushing their drugs down toilets.
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