A year of Arizona's wet weather made a big dent in drought conditions - but how much?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- During a snowpack survey on the Verde River Watershed this February, the Salt River Project (SRP) was thrilled at what it found.
"Woo, that’s deep!" Four feet deep, to be exact.
SRP sends crews to monitor winter snowpack a few times each year - driving or flying - to spots like Happy Jack.
"Get on the snow shoes and go out to the designated areas and stick the federal sampler in the snow, take it out and weigh it, and we can get an idea of how much water equivalent to snowpack it is," said Bo Svoma, Salt River Project Meteorologist.
Or, how much water is in the snow, if it was all melted.
This season, you might've guessed, brought in huge numbers.
"Usually you come out here in late February and these sites will have like six inches of snow water equivalent," Svoma said. "Today we measured 13.3" of snow water equivalent, which is really impressive."
This year’s snowpack is the largest in three decades. As it melts, the water runs into small creeks and streams, like Clear Creek.
From there, it heads down stream to Horseshoe Reservoir, one of seven reservoirs in the SRP Salt and Verde system, which store much of the Valley's water supply.
The system is already at 100%. A big change from only a year ago. Horseshoe was below 10% full in April 2022. It's now over 80% capacity.
As a whole, the Verde basin has seen over 400% of average snowpack. The Salt Basin has seen over 200% of average.
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The last hydrologist said an excellent point. The good indicator that we really ended the mega drought is when both Lake Mead and Powell able to back to Full Pool.
That is peak capacity, ie as much as they can hold. not a real drought measure. the water table is trashed because they are farming in the desert.
@@tvviewer4500they’re delusional or they use It as a tool to perpetuate fear
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farming at least is productive. But Arizonans have zillion of pools and foundtains and golf courses.
@@xtusvincit5230 farming uses 97% of the water. Farming is great but it’s not a good idea to pump the water table dry. Especially because when that runs out than the food source contacts and we are in trouble. Pools are inconsequential
@@tvviewer4500 97%? Really?
Thank you for the excellent reporting. As a Northern Californian, I am often informed by my own local news sources about how the Sierra snowpack impacts our own local drought conditions. We're hopeful this winter has granted us a temporary reprieve. It was enlightening for me to see a report on how this winter has impacted Arizona. I'm so happy this came across my feed.
Bro for real I used to live in Tahoe and was sad how low the lake was hopefully this replenishes all those beautiful waterways and lakes
God, thank You for the precipitation You have granted us. Please send us more for the Colorado River Basin, but protect people's homes from destruction. Thank You.
They need to run an ~8" pipe down to the aquifers to specifically recharge them...all this water and it's being flushed.
Most informative video I found on the subject .
Thank you for an informative report. Even though the Lake Powell/Mead projection is based on dated information at least it’s something definitive.
When you live in a desert dry seasons are normal and wet seasons are the exception😂😅😂😅
So much water being let go and out to sea? Why not pump some of it into the Colorado. The army corp of engineers should be building pipelines or aqua ducts.
God has a much bigger pipeline from heaven
They need to build more dams and lakes to store water. Plus canals and water treatment facilities.
Need taxes to fund public works.
@@ladyeowyn42it's money well spent
Not they! We need to do this! We are the taxpayers!
Not at all. Its about using less much better. Pumping drinking water from the ground has to be added too.
@@ladyeowyn42 Thats not taxes. Thats investments for all. There is no such solutions as his.
You have to use less water better.
The dry area of Yours has to act as such. As I recall (Im from Denmark) it, You spend 60% water for farming. You spend 20% for urban use.
So as a needed change You has to stop grow farmng product, which hardly gives money. That could be soyabeans.
You also are famlus for having the fattest population in the world, so You could eat less pork( infact some of it could be replaced by soya protein in many products).
The second part is too much garden tradition is Nrthern European style. Fine the most dominant Americans came from there - BUT Your climate is much varmer and dryer. By that You have to irrigate so many things too often by sprinklers.
In the southern parts of Europe there are many nice gardens, so You should change more to tgheir style.
In You homes You spend too much water as well. Your toilets are as guppies should live n the water there. Your kitchens are first degree water wasters too.
Thasts my reflexions comming from outside. We have Our problems in Denamrk too, but we have solved more then ou and better.
Its a contrast to Yours. We get more and more rain from the sky. Harvesting potatoes and caroots by boat is no option and many stormfrain and bridges are in too small dimensions.
Thank our lord for Precious water 💦
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We could be 500 feet underwater and they’re still gonna say we are in a drought
who are 'we' and who are 'they' and what possible reason would 'they' have to lie to us? That's the problem with people who doubt everything authorities say-- its not logical. And in this case, you can just go look at the reservoirs and see for yourself. Kind of hard to have a conspiracy when the facts can be seen with your own eyes.
You would need 10, plus years to restore to a good level.
They had been saying Powell would rise 45 feet. I guess we will see.
Probably because they just announce that Powell will release more water in April than originally planned to help Lake Mead.
"They"?
@@justinoff1 Multiple sites.
@@jfifield20 I just saw an expert on a news report this weekend that said that Powell will rise between 50 and 90 feet (with 70 being the most likely) The numbers are all over the place.
Drought.... in the desert? No way, LOL.
It happened in the 1940s. It happened in the 1980s and now it's happening in 2 thousandand twenties.. You don't have to be smart to figure it out.
Lake Mead rose 45 feet in 2019. I was watching the data several times a day.
Same with California dams. I also took a 2 month car trip that year and was at the dam.
So that's a good thing no Deadpools hooray for all the snow it must have been a collective effort🎉🎉🎉🎉
Construct as many underground reservoirs as you can to be linked with underground tunnels with locks in place.
You're obviously not an engineer
@@justinoff1 then I swamp Western USA with floods.
@@lokesh303101 you're never going to be able to engineer a system that would prevent flooding. Ask the Mississippi River / Ohio River valley
@@justinoff1 then I'll get it from Mississippi.
The headwaters of the Colorado were better than normal this year, but weren’t record breaking. Colorado as a state uses very little of the The upper basin water. Most of Colorados population lives on the front range which is on the Atlantic drainage. Fortunately Utah had a way heavier the normal snow pack. This, and Colorados decent snow pack should help lake Powell
It’s going to be low again in a heartbeat. Mega farming companies will just grow thirsty plants for more profit. Almonds and whatever else.
Hmmm, why don't they have a remote camera with a pole that was planted in the ground during the summer with the feet markings so that they do not have to make the trip every year? Crazy.
They aren't only measuring the depth of the snow, but also how densely it's packed together
Hopefully this trend will continue this year and next. People need to be more mindful of our resources. It's not infinite.
Droughts can be caused by various factors, including changes in weather patterns, climate change, and human activities such as overuse of water resources and deforestation.
We need to address this issue immediately in a global scale.
We already have the idea, but we lack of commitment as human race.
Several initiatives needed to be implemented ASAP:
1. Drought monitoring and early warning systems
2. Water conservation and management strategies
3. Drought-resistant crops
4. Community-based approaches
5. Disaster risk reduction planning
IMHO
being cali and az are "fine" for the moment, NO water should be allocated from the CO, let it build up, especially CA. they still have a massive amount of snow to melt and are just dumping water that resi's cant hold
There is no drought, it is a desert, what happened this year is not the norm.
God is in control he can provide .. last July of 2022 I started praying fervently and gave gifts to the poor and baam it came according to Luke 6.38
Drill holes so the water goes into the aquifer.
YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!!!!!!!!!
You live in the desert..that means water supplies will fluctuate and you'll always worry about water because that's how it's been there for millions of years...
They constantly stay negative. Notice how they coat all good new with bad news. The drought story is a normal story. Look at the history of weather in the area and you will find everything is fine except for the fact that too many people are sucking resources from a desert. That is the problem.
Better make a plan to capture more of these melt water sooner as temperature continue to increase -> resovior water evaporate faster
with proven land management systems that are designed to restore the most ground water possible would help more than anything and bring large areas back to green.
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes.
It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
The why aren't you slowing the streams and creeks down so the water stays around longer and fills the ground water tables back up. Really guys get it together.
God has given water to the land
Why is Horseshoe reservoir only at 80% yet they are letting millions of gallons spill down into Bartlett, which is also as full as I’ve ever seen???
Great to see it is improving ✝️🕊️🇺🇸
Ah good. Arizona can keep growing cotton in open defiance of God and rationality
So now we can't forget climate change for like the next 10yrs until the next drought haunt us again.
There are STILL too many people depending upon the obviously insufficient system. Temporary reprieve, at best.
I wonder what the situation would be if a Dam happens to blow out. Those dams have never had this much water...
Hopefully people responsible are doing their job. Otherwise mega land tsunami...
Wait until this year's monsoon season 😮 y'all aren't going to know what to do.
I tend to agree with u
Gonna be interesting to see.
why don't they use the over flow from the dams to recharge the ground water?
How do you propose they transport/get that water to underground aquifers and ground water?
@@jimyeats i do not need water, they appear to not know what to do with it, i was making a suggestion. probably be easier to make more revivors but no one wants to do that either. I am just saying if i lived in desert water would probably be a priority all the time, not just droughts
@@mastersr1956 Right, I get what you're saying, but sometimes the common answer is just that it is logistically impossible to somehow recharge underground aquifers by diverting or transporting reservoir water. Underground aquifers and groundwater don't recharge that way. But yes, water conservation should always be a priority, unfortunately that is not how human nature works.
.... one wet year is no indicator of a drought ending!
sadly, it will be an ongoing issue!
lets just hope the usa will act like the drought is stilla thing & not waste all this water "today" and suffer for the next decades 🤨
And yet Arizona is selling Aquifer water to the Chinese.
More so the Saudi’s. Not really even selling it, just didn’t realize that fairly lax ground water regulations would lead to foreign countries taking advantage. Which they are trying to correct and fix.
Isn’t this what the earth does just because we think we understand doesn’t mean really
Thank God for climate change!
Meanwhile Saudi is using our water unlimited with water bills going up on residences
Anyone else wondering why elon musk just happened to be operating a boring company and than a year later we somehow use all the reservoir in a matter of months?
So when it doesn't rain in the desert its now known as a mega drought?🤣
I thought they covered up a lot of stuff with Lake Mead, until I saw Lake Powell! There are several Native American settlements under both lakes, but this one is so much more visible. If you look at man made lakes, there are settlements under every one I have researched, so far. Their structures melt pretty easily, under water. I wish they would just take out the dams and let the rivers go where they are supposed to go. Dams and water diversion, are one of the biggest ecological disasters, of all times. We have so much water dammed up, it is making the Earth wobble, off Axis. (Yes, I researched it). Not to mention, the wildlife disaster, in the food chain, breaking down the whole system! Fish can't get upstream, animals can't migrate. These lakes will never be full to capacity, again. They weren't meant to be there in the first place.
Stay off the weeed! !All of the illegal immigrants are making the earth wobble
@@hm-ys4ym Immigrants are not illegal. This country was founded by immigrants. I am Native American and the Earth is for Everyone! Not just rich, rude white people!
Not to worry y’all with just waste it.
Don't waste it all this time.
oops, so much for climate change. This is nothing out of the ordinary for the southwest. Only difference is that there is overpopulation in the deserts.
Man if I was the GOV of that state all those dense so and sos would be fired by now. This ain't that hard. Slow the water down dingbats.
The upcoming pole shift will turn this whole area into a jungle!
The shift is coming, saw the northern lights in Omaha.
I think you guys need to learn to survive on your own water supplies instead of people who have to suffer through winter so you can play all year. Using water not earned is BS...
Global warming and climate change. hahaha
Disney character panties are the most cutest and comfortable kind of panties to wear nbvg
California needs to stop wasting water.
Golf course, farming have detrimental effects on the water supply. The long term is drier conditions.
For fucks sake. Now we need it to rain underground??
The reservoirs will fill up when they are stopped being drained. -Yogi Berra
we just need more people in Phx and commiefornia pulling more from the colorado river. that would allow vegas to use more for golf courses in the desert.
I live in upstate NY with a tremendous amount of fresh water. Even in the worst drought we had 8n 1988 most of the crops were fine without irrigation. The west and thier water problems concerned me and interested me. Glad to see a turn for better. Also glad fires are low.
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The experts said we were going to have a cold dry winter. I question the expertise of these experts.
one season is not an end to a drought
Why no one reverts water to the underground aquifers?
😂 drought
You need to explain why the water is poisoned after weather Warfare and climate control was used .
You need to take your meds.🤪