The Colorado River Aqueduct
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- Опубліковано 31 січ 2013
- A three-minute video about one of the worlds engineering wonders, the Colorado River Aqueduct carries water across the desert, over mountains, through tunnels and underground pipes to cities and communities throughout Southern California.
America is the only country I know of that plays music so loud on its documentaries that the commentary cannot be heard.
WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU, THE FREEDOM HERE IS TOO GAT DANG LOUD!!
Thank you, from Southern California, for this video. I am using it in my online science class to help students decide for themselves if it is important for them to conserve water. To me it is imperative to conserve and reclaim as much water as possible. I demo'd putting a 5-gallon bucket in the shower to reclaim 3.5 g water per shower to water plants outside. My students need as much accurate information as possible; this is embedded into my presentation.
It turns out that wasting water is cheaper than conserving it..... Public regulated private corperations own the means of distribution and saving water.... reduce their share holders profits . .. in my lifetime...any drought conditions that occurs generally being 5 years with little rain followed by 1 or 2 years of undulation of rain , the last occurrence over topped most of the dams and filled our storage up fully..a 1st in many years.. in between those epic seasons continuous storm system after storm system... most winters are dry or light rains that hardly wash away the street grime and the State issues mandatory reductions or face fines ... ..to determine if your in compliance, your average usage is used ....so if you have been conserving regularly, your expected to cut down even more...... a family member moving back home or marriage adds additional users ..the number of people living at the residency is not taken into account so you can expect to see an increase in your monthly payment...
Gross wasters of water like golf courses or the farmers who have water rights allotted before the 20th century when population was much much less then the 40million plus currently living in California, are allow to practice irrigation methods of the same era which generally means flooding their fields so most of the resources (95%) evaporate or soak back in the ground which in the central valley causes salts in the soil to rise up and eventually ruin the lands entirely. There's plenty of water...we aren't using it efficiently as we should
I turn on my neighbor's sprinklers out of spite.
Brian, I appreciate what you do, I havr a special gratitude toward science teachers. However, my issue with conserving water is that companies and/or the state don't give 2 cents about conservation; our efforts are futile. I live in Phoenix AZ, golf courses keep popping up and their grass is very well watered. Nestle water company was approved by the state to mass produce bottled water IN THE DESERT!! Whi in their right mind approves a bottling company to use tap water from the desert to sell all over the US? While I do care about conserving water, I feel that we are only saving it for large companies to waste.
I've been to some of the plants as part of my work. They are almost completely original, even down to the door handles and stuff. Masterpieces of the art-deco style in architecture so common at that time. And each pumping station has a tiny village where the crew lives, with green lawns, a swimming pool and all the comforts of home. At first glance it would seem like a fantastic place to live and work, until one realizes how remote some of those plants are.
California is an awesome place. I wouldn't live anywhere else.
I worked in the opposite of what they do. Our problem mostly was getting rid of water. Only seldom was it for water supply. The amount of water going down that ditch is about the same as two of the three pump stations I had control of could move. And we have over 60 in just our area of the State with mine being some of the smaller ones with only 4ft diameter pumps. Some of our places were an hour's drive from the next one and distant ones were up to a 3 hour's drive distance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Florida_Water_Management_District Here is where I worked out of for 18 years. apps.sfwmd.gov/site-details-report/index.html#/sites/S331 One pump at 400 CFS, out of 3 we had, running today. That one pump has an 8' diameter prop in a 9' opening with the outside diameter of the pump being 10'.
My Uncle worked at the Julian Hinds Pumping Plant back in the later 70s until 1987. He finished his career at the Diemer Plant in Yorba Linda. I remember going out to the Hinds Pumping Plant as a young kid with my Dad and Mom to go see him and my Aunt / Cousins since the whole family lived out there with him obviously. Good memories and what a absolute incredible Engineering Marvel.
I've read that the Nestlé company siphons millions of gallons of water a year out of California's San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, even as drought conditions worsen across the state. And they hardly pay anything to do this -- something like $500 for a license. How can they keep getting away with this?
I worked for the Metropolitan Water District for twenty five years. A good video!
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown
@@andrewfield5656 wrong aqueduct!
@@gilgarcia3008My Uncle started at the Julian Hinds Pumping Plant back in the late 70's until about 1987. Then he transferred to the Diemer Water Treatment Plant and finished his career there. I remember as a kid going out there to Hinds Pumping Plant to visit. Good Times!
Amazing that, in a desert, none of the agencies thought to cover the canals to cut down on evaporation. Guess they were built in a time when the thought was that the supply was endless .
Covering the canal is cost prohibitive. It technically feasible, but would add tremendous cost to the overall project, as well as a tremendous burden (and hence, cost) to any future maintenance work that needs to be performed on the canal. All of that to save a relatively small percentage of water lost through evaporation.
Maybe. Perhaps it was a cost issue
They make it sound as if they’re doing some amazing job.
Too support some 40 million people in the American west is an amazing job
Support here and deprive there. I heard that the San Joaquin river used to have river boats now California trucks fish from the river to the sea
Meanwhile, Colorado Delta in Mexico is dry and that affects every part of the ecosystem around it.
Instead of expressing your beliefs about if "Mexico is or isn't going to", proceed to comprehend that this concerns both countries and more importantly: that this is way beyond man made limitations! Please understand that Colorado River is the source of life to a wide range of lifeforms, from the very smallest to the biggest, many of them are endemic and not found anywhere in the world. Whatever happens downriver will proportionately reflect on the ecosystems upriver, as above so below and viceversa! Sustaining beautiful dynamic interactions that are interconnected, which includes all of us. Peace out!
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 i took a fat shit in the colorodo river, look out for driftwood.
I was looking at some videos on restoring 1% of the water to reach the Gulf of California to help endangered species and improve the lives of the people that live around there
been dry for decades, basically california stole the water, fucked up,
It's also been called the biggest theft of water in history.
My Great Grandfather and my Grandpa helped build it starting at Lake Havasu to our farms in the Coachella valley to grow the date trees.
Date trees are not a dry desert type plant they suck way to mucn water
And thats why the colorado doesn't make it to the ocean because people like you live and FARM in a freakin DESERT
How did those invasive mussels get from the Great Lakes to the Colorado river?
When the Colorado River dries up, Canada is ready and willing to provide fresh water... for a price.
Tell me more. Where’s this Canadian water coming from
Keep it. California can build desalination plants.
@@stilltuckered they better!
'Use it or lose it'. Sure would be nice if California networked all their reservoirs to handle the 200% snowpack they had last year. IF any reservoir is full or nearing capacity . . . there should be a network of aqueducts to transfer to other aqueducts bringing the entire system to capacity . . . even distribution networks in urban and ag. recharge. THEN any of their allocation from the Colorado unused could be left to storage in Mead . . . "use it or lose it" . . . NOT banked for another year! Arizona could sure appreciate some caring.
That sounds inexpensive. Easier to ban lawns in SoCal.
We have been begging for more dams in central and northern California but the damn government won't do it b/c of maybe an earthquake. their engineers are stupid just look at the Oraville damn, just looking at that steep slope anyone could tell it wouldn't hold, they have repaired it with the same steep slope, they should have left it the way it caved by nature but no they still think that slope will hold. They also waited too long to release the water, didn't listen to the weather man. Dumb and Dumber running this state.
Look at Chris Davies on the voice over. Great work sir.
local sources?? there is no water native to la other than stored rain water. it is only about 1/2 of one % of the total water they use, all the rest has been stolen from other places.
Yes, and now the usage exceeds the capacity of Lake Mead with levels dropping dramatically, exacerbated by the increasing silt load.
Well yes, but the Libs of SOCAL blame that entirely on climate change, and not on their obscene consumption of other state's water.
Meanwhile, the Colorado delta river is dry asf
Yes, and that has a negative effect on the regional monsoons. It's insane that practically 100% of the Colorado river's water is diverted from extremely arid desert to support cities surrounded by Water when they should be using desalination to obtain any needed freshwater in excess of what occurs seasonally.
Secede, and you can kiss all that water goodbye, Cali!
The only “civil war” that would be created by California leaving the union, is if they changed their mind and try to come back. . . No one will stop them from leaving.
Be careful what you wish for! ;)
20 years of drought. Now the Colorado River can not supply water to all the desert community. Lake mead and lake Powell are about 1/4 full. The states need to get together and build desalination plants so the water can help full the reservoirs.
Not any more!
Wow spooky the whole California depends on rocky mountains snow. They should build saltwater distillery as back up. You know climate change.
Rocky mountain in hot lava core push still rise higher sky very cold make snow but earth change very slowly due north and south poles moving.
Not the whole California, only San Diego. 2/3 of LA's water comes from the Sierras. North of LA almost everybody depends on Sierra snow.
@thomas salt water desalination is extremely energy intensive. Use more power create more environmental problems unless it’s solar etc which still has side effects but less. Plus you have a bi product/waste to get rid off ie salt. Most dump back in the ocean which raises the salinity in the immediate area....
1000 % AGREE THEY SCREAM THE CITIES WILL BE UNDER WATER
BY RAISING OCEAN LEVELS WELL LET THEM FIX THAT BY PLANTS
TO GIVE THE PEOPLE WATER PLUS THE FARMERS.
@@bradobbink6564 nuclear-powered desalination would be nice. They were going to build one in the '60 at Huntington Beach, but some politician killed it.
Is this why Lake Mead is going dry?
Yep.
Main water source comes from Stockton delta
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Ok, I’m in Florida but I just like to know quick and easy histories of civil engineering.
California is overpopulated and is always without water. Sounds like a swell place to live.
i am a jabroney, stay away
It was.
Not anymore.
When I was born the population of the whole state was about 10 million.
Now, just south of the Santa Barbara County line, there's 19 million.
It can't last.
And it won't.
Cheers from Malibu!
Only the strong can survive here. No L7 weenies haha
If the idiots in cali govt would stop giving their money away to illegals they could have invested in desalination plants to supply their water needs instead of stealing water from the Colorado river...
if it wasnt for the aqueduct i wonder how high would lake mead be? by the damn hoover dam
242 miles in 2 days is 5 miles per hour. Neato.
As you visit this aqueduct please take a moment to give them a gift from your personal water tank.
Whatever. I imagine your water has plenty of "gifts" in it too.
Question, where did you find the soundtrack for this video
Where are 30 million people to go when the water runs out next year?
Excuse me, Cali has 49 million people.In 1950 it had 10 million.It's pretty easy to see where the problem is.
I wonder how much is lost to evaporation each year ? Lately it seems we can't waist a drop. Would all pipe be more expensive and would it have paid for it's self by now ?
Waste.
@@andybaldman Thanks, at least I know one person red it and red it thoroughly
You put solar panels over the open canals produce electricity and reduce evaporation losses. How the hell did those shellfish get from the Great Lakes?
Get busy with coastal desalinating plants. Keep the plumbers and fitters working. Use their skills or lose those trades.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul... extremely energy intensive creating more load on power and the environment. Short sited short term solution which is mans traits
Current desalination plant designs incorporate solar power fields so the plants could be run by new sources of power instead of pulling from the grid to much.
Yes, time for the holier-than-thou residents of SoCal to quit mooching. The Colorado River delta in Mexico barely exists anymore, and there are times of the year when it's totally dry.
@@russs7574 Yeah, let's not talk about the almost 300 golf courses in Arizona wasting the water. SMH
pity we dont have more ..carry cross country east to west abundence of rain or other way around. as seasons change
Screw californication let them dry rot
They take most of there water from the mountains here in Colorado every year
I wonder how many people take a wizz in the canal?
Canal is off limits, so I'd bet not many.
crk1121 I bust a fat nut in the aqueduct inlet.
Most of the aqueduct is behind fences and/or monitored. Good luck.
@@DesertTripper no it isn't, you can drive the canal and fish it in most open canal spots. Stripers and catfish
Is this an example of living out side of your means. Water is a commodity after like money, right?
guess which state has less water now cuz of this project
Is there fish in the Colorado river aqueduct?
Jose Jimenez Jimenez Yes ironically
Yes, I dropped trow and released a 'Brown' trout.
Strippers, have been caught all the way to 70 plus pounds
@@travisleeds2910 don't forget the Delta smelt..... Oh wait.... LOL. I believe the O'Neill forebay still has the state record at 68 lbs for a Striper.
Can we Do kayak on it ?
While the sequoia national park supplies water to souther california, here in central california we are in a drought smh!!
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When Lake Mead is gone,what are you going too do then California.
Start sacrificing flyover states.
They gonna find ANOTHER source to dry up! Surprised they have not dried up ALL of the Pacific ocean yet!
@@tinnybird1971 give the political establishment Time. I live here at it pisses me off on how irresponsible they are.
That water looks nice,i would swim in there
Fish piss and shit in that water
@@travisleeds2910 yea,they do that in your drinking water too
Oh no, don't drink water
@@travisleeds2910 The same thing PEOPLE do in public swimming pools. Lots of kiddo's in diapers you know.
Don’t please
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Just think if they would have added biking infrastructure in the build.
What happened to the fish that originally spawned upstream?
Fascinating video. Quite educational. Makes a great case for kicking California out of the union.
Be careful what you wish for! ;)
Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, & Utah should present a united front & insist on a water summit that reduces the amount of water my home state of California gets from the Colorado.
No matter who's toes get stepped on.
No matter what it does to the existing order.
Southern California needs a huge decrease in population & this is a sure way of beginning that process.
Well, people made some deals "way back when" that may be hard to undo without civil unrest.
The economic system requires continuous growth including population. I admit it's not sustainable but tell politicians and breeders that
This was the first thing to be cut off if califuckup left the united states. Should cut it off anyway.
@@daviddiehl197 Agree.
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the city of Los Angeles and San Diego should start kinetic in their own water out of the ocean and said of sucking out lake Mead dry
cool stuff....wish my country have this so agriculture and grow instead of corruption....at least America think abut its people
HAHAHA! The US is full idiots who sell anything for votes, and grow crops in a fucking desert... ever heard of the Aral sea? That's what happens when you fuck with nature.
Water world.
A 2015 UC Davis study showed a dual benefit of installing solar panels over the aqueduct; reduced water loss from evaporation and electricity production. Break-even point was estimated at 40 years, but cost reductions and generating efficiency have experienced major breakthroughs in the past 2 years. And we all know California has wasted money on far dumber projects.
Like a Train?
hate to be there if the water was shut off
Chinese laborers had a big part in building the Colorado canal system. These laborers were the Chinese who were, because of the Chinese exclusion act were dropped off in Mexico. However the Californians in power then needed workers so they recruited Chinese laborers from Mexico. The wealthy barons got the US government to ignore this lawbreaking because of their wealth and power. When the project was completed the Chinese were sent back to Mexico. History shows that the town of Mexicali had at one time over 30,000 Chinese. The Chinese built Mexicali and the roads and infrastructure in many parts of northern Mexico. History forgotten, the many contributions by all immigrants, much less Chinese.
UA-cam - Chinese in Mexico and Central America for their significant contributions to Mexican society.
The invasive species brought to US is a great arguement against globalization
I say ditch the water project no one needs 19 million people in Southern California
A very interesting video, but spoilt by the unnecessary background music which doesn't add anything to the film.
What is it with the stupid music anyway? So many videos are like this.
It gave me a mega boner. I'm harder than a diamond in an ice storm
2:20 Make Aqueduct Great Again.
Don't have to. Aqueduct is already a wonderful place to spend a day at the races.
Whenever a difficulty comes, Americans rise up to the challenge. I love it.
At huge environmental cost. Fuck America.
No, the opposite is the reality. They just take, greed, lazy and spoil everything they touch. California is a diseased limb.
Learn more about southern California's water resources? Southern California has no water resources. Wtf.
People saying you should live where theres no water.. but almost every single one of you live in a place where water, food, building materials, etc, is brought in from other places. No area can really sustain big cities.
Ever heard of the great lakes.
The evaporation rate has increased by 4%. That aqueduct is losing a lot of water!
a neat way of dealing with that is to roof it over with solar panels, it's a win win
You should be in charge of it!!! Great idea!!!!
@@Strange_Brew it's not my idea, it's becoming quite popular with irrigation canals, I think I learnt about it here ua-cam.com/video/Ix9LNZIbTpc/v-deo.html
I believe my border canal is original?
good jerry brown saved the water from san joaquin river to the fish....but trump is gona change some stuff around on this problem.the colorado river and lake mead are at historically low levels.So cal needs nor cal water...and lets eat the fish too.
Maybe they need to build one to The Great Lakes hahaha
I know from just my swimming pool in Fl, how much evaporates… MILES of open air ducts… they NEED covers ! Its got to be millions of gallons / day they are losing to just evaporation !
They have an idea of putting Solar panels over the open sections to help run the water pumps and the surrounding communities. It would also cover the area and cut down on some of the evaporation.
I watch this, and I think of the movie Chinatown.
This is a reason Colorado has water problems
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Not gonna end well for Humans!
They need to build one from the Mississippi River to the western states the water from the Mississippi River just dumps in to the gulf Mexico
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Smart. Settle millions of people in an area where there's little to no water. Yup, really smart. NOT.
AND DON'T FORGET EARTHQUAKES!!! That geographical area is very susceptible to them.
But the weather. Yeah, man, the weather. I lived there for a year, the quakes are nothing.
Tornados in the midwest, hurricanes in the southeast and floods along the Mississippi. Also dumb to build in these areas.
I used to laugh when I lived in Las Vegas and constantly got bombarded with TV and radio commercials about being in a drought.... uh no, idiots, it's a fucking desert and you sold majority water and electricity rights to Commiefornia
@@mc2construction You can build to overcome Hurricanes. Floods are harder but if you don't build in a flood plain, that problem wouldn't exit. Tornadoes are hard to build for. Earthquakes also.
cant keep growing places w/o their own water......but, full steam ahead
Listen people there’s no body contact in these aqueducts, and reservoirs, also it goes through 5 different treatment plants before it gets to your house. You don’t get raw water through your pipes at home!
@Gil Garcia you do if you have a well...
@@CH-pv2rz that’s not surface water which must be treated well water only needs to be treated if it’s contaminated in some way. The federal treatment rules apply throughout the country.
bad news rain will no longer due to earth change new season soon.
I was told that the weather is controlled by the government using chemtrail aircraft jets.
@@tinnybird1971 And the earth is flat maaaan
What a horrible river it is, People are saying it’s drying up, It deserves to be consumed.
Drougth: CA and rest off the South West got 2 choice, fix the problem or keep the water problem!
CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move 10% off this water. Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff. NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water.
And it’s draining the river…
They need to build a canal from San Diego along the southern border to the Gulf of Mexico and open this up to shipping.
Suppose they'll have to use the waste water plants and re use what they've used and pee out already
You do realize, you already drink water that dinosaurs pooped in, Jesus bathed in, and so on and so on.... right? FACT!
What a pleasant voice over to tell you you're fucked.
California always sucking up things
Interesting but REALLY DATED video. At 0:30, it states California has 19 million residents. As of 2016, the official estimate is more than DOUBLE that figure (39 million)
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Is says Southern California has 19 million, which is fairly accurate
Neil Slovek - You are right. I missed him saying 'Southern'. Thanks for spotting my omission.
I Googled 'Population of Southern California'. It states 23.8 million (2016).
When a video such as this is placed on UA-cam, I would really appreciate if whoever posts it would include information, such as the copyright or publishing date. It would add perspective.
One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.
Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions
Not as impressive as Rome's aqueducts. They were smart enough to make the water supply independent from pumps and any other machinery, that has to work 24/7
Typical example of human beings destroy tilia lovely River into a concrete eyesore what positive thing when you get rid of the water I got somewhere to skateboard
FGN and FJB.
I just want to pee in there.
Great idea animal falls in there it can't get out a drain of death
ahhhh, another reason not to live in Khalifornicationia.
🤔Why are you taking from an insufficient state and filling your needs with their valuable resources of premium water? Are you planning on destroying the source of the water supply line, as you did before the use of the Colorado water supply? When you have a bigger source sitting next to you. With the use of desalination & Reverse electrolytes from the ocean.
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Living in a desert. I know lets go steal are neighbor's water
Bunch of top heavy overpaid bureaucrats stealing water
Is this supposed to impress me? because it does not