Ironic, John Wesley Powell, who was the first to explore the Grand Canyon, the lake is named for and served as the Director of the US Geological Survey, tried to tell Congress there should be little to no development west of the 100 degree longitude, because there wasn't enough water.
@@stephenburnage7687 because of the archaic way water rights are dealt out, Arizona has the most “Junior” rights and California has the most senior rights. I find a certain irony of CA residents moving to AZ in the middle of a mega drought.
And they also try to use that water source to grow a lot of water hungry crops. We’ve gotten away with making the area do a lot of things that Mother Nature never intended it to do for so long and now that it isn’t working out we try to double down. The entire southwest needs to relearn the lesson of the Salten Sea.
It was never intended to be a lake in the first place. They act like the dam was intended to create a lake when Powell was only created to become just a reservoir for the dam itself.
I guess you don't understand Colorado gets 52%, Utah 23% and Wyoming 14% of the Upper Basin water, while California gets 59% of the Lower Basin water. This does not include the 1.5 million acre feet that must continue downriver for use by Mexico. The mostly "desert" states like Arizona get only 37% of the Lower Basin, and Nevada only 4%.
GunBunny You would be hard pushed to find anyone in Europe who envies the US way of life, and even harder pressed to find anyone who would prefer to live there! For most of us, the idea of moving to the states is a nightmare scenario. The delusion amongst Americans that they have it so much better than elsewhere is comical.
we have the same issues here in California. They continually state we do not have enough water for the farmers much less the citizens but continue to build and expand urban sprawl. They do not give any thought on how to store water but let it flow into the ocean.
you can't build uncontrollably and think there will always be water when the world is already overpopulated, and we have been in a drought for more than 30 years! People don't pay attention to anything...
@@bestamerica yes states are needed federal government is suppose to guarantee our inalienable rights and provide for the common defense and that's it everything else is pose to be done on a state and local level CA needs to stop stealing the natural resources from other states
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
@@KLRJUNE did you know theres much water diverted in that distance from this lake? Or what about evaporation? You can't just blame everything on climate change.
Not sure if many will remember this, but the Colorado River used to flow into Mexico. The land all around for hundreds of miles where it flowed into Mexico was rich productive farmland. However with the dam, and our (USA’s) water usage, the Colorado River flowing into Mexico is now a small stream compared to what it used to be. That farmland, it’s a desert now. The USA has always contended “our River, our land, our water,” which I’m not sure is fair to Mexico. If you take water rights and laws in the USA into consideration, Mexico got the short end of the stick.
@@BobABooey. - Yes, but not as far back as you think. Hover Dam was built in the late 1930’s, in the 1950’s the problem became critical, by the 1960’s the area in Mexico where the Colorado river flowed became Un-farmable as there wasn’t enough water, by the 1970’s it was a desert.
Try blaming the idiots upstream who pull all the water before the southwestern states even get a chance at it! We cant take what isnt there you idiot, it's the jerks upstream of the lake who are preventing it from filling AND have the majority of the water draw allocated to them, Arizona gets almost nothing compared to Wyoming and Utah and other northern states
There's lots of blame to go around, but hands down the largest consumers of Colorado River water by a large margin are alfalfa growers, and by extension, meat eaters. And I'm not moralizing or preaching vegetarianism, it's just a fact.
The lake water level is projected to drop another 35 feet next year!? Well at least the golf courses will be nice and green until there's no water left in Arizona.
@@jeffvw1994 Most of the Coachella Valley golf courses use a decent amount of "purple water". But yes, there is a fair amount of trans-evaporation from them.
Before they built the dam, they went to each of the states that the Colorado river went through or touched. In order to sell the project they looked at rainfall records in the watershed area. They didn't have a lot of records, but they grabbed the numbers that jumped out at them. This amount of rainfall over a given area of watershed yielded a fixed volume of water. So, they had to issue water rights so they took this number, and promised or allocated each state a portion. Almost a hundred years later nobody ever thought to recheck the rainfall records and possibly modified allotments. Nobody wanted to see if a mistake was made in the beginning. After all in the western states of America, water is for fighting, whiskey is for drinking. Well rainfall records are much more complete now so a few folks started looking. Turns out before they built the dam, the yearly rainfall they thought was normal wasn't. In fact they used the data from exceptionally wet years. So, since the dam was built, they have been allocating the same number every year. They won't tell you that. But they will blame everything else...especially if they can get more control, money and power.
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
So…what’s your point? Sounds normal to me. How about all the record building in Arizona going on right now? How can ANY building permit be issued to a water dependent project when there’s not enough to go around already? Crazy….
Why soes a place have to look really cool to be """sacred""? Why is a smelly, weed infected swamp, or a boring flat plain never sacred? Should have the same chances of being
The amount of fresh water that dumps into the ocean every second out of the Columbia river alone is mind boggling. We're not out of water, we just need to manage what we have better.
I completely agree, they were talking about building some sort of a pipe from Texas to California some time ago for oil and gas, why not do that for water? There are areas that would dramatically benefit from the flood waters the devastate Houston it seems almost yearly, have it funnel the flood waters from the reserviors, lakes, rivers, streams, bayous all the areas that overflow when it floods, drop the levels so when it does flood they do not overflow so quickly which will allow time for it to open and begin pumping the flood waters to the states that need it, that would create jobs, protect homes, save lives, protect animal life, protect wild life, create vegetation in drought areas, the only problem I see is cost but it will pay itself off over time.
@@chuckstith838 You do realize that if the US falls, we fall together, one party will not be spared over the other.....its not reps vs dems, its the have's vs the have nots and none of yall seem to understand that.
@@kittiepride7772 Ever heard of self sufficiency without the government's help? Thats the way it used to be before things like welfare were invented. Im for more personal responsibility in every facet of our lives, especially at the state and local level and LESS big government....this is what the founders envisioned, not the screwed up world we have today.
it didn't dry up, it would be just as full as it was at full pool if you morons would actually conserve your water or create a solution to the drought. Without this lake the western side of the U.S. would be in severe poverty
@@judeodomhnaill9711 Of course. Plus, those are the same idiots that pile into cities forcing urban expansion. Most of them don't even realize temperatures are 5 to 10 degrees cooler outside city limits.
@@xanderz161 yup, the asphalt and cement raises the temperature. Man, I totally forgot that. Very common sense, but overlooked because of the "dire situation".
"There would be no water to distribute to the 40 million people who depend on that water..." Lady, there wouldn't be 40 million people to distribute water to in the first place. There is only a drought cause people insist on developing urban areas where is illogical to begin with!
@@wrathmachine7609 Population drops as education and technology increase in a society. China JUST OK'ed 3rd child policy because their population is aging so quickly. The problem is in 3rd world countries where parents use children as retirement benefits. As they develop, their birthrate will drop too.
@@wrathmachine7609 And that discussion will be as much BS as this one is.....All of the world's population can fit into Jacksonville, FL. Could live comfortably in only Florida. But, if you are still around in 2050 you can go first to be killed. Maybe your children and grandkids would line up to go first too?
Do you have any idea how many environmentalist in California claim that desalination would over salinate the Pacific, the worlds largest ocean? 🤣 Countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel have not managed to do that in decades. Oh well, that California for ya! 🤦🏻♂️
@@jamram9924 Well, if they are true environmentalists and not just "mentalists", they will realize that the extra salt they worry about so much will actually keep the saline balance because of the extra ice melting in the oceans which is fresh water.
That would require Californians to think, plan years in advance, redirect money from idiot social programs and stop tryint export crazines to the other 49 States, not to mention quite simply mind your own business.
That actually is true. When they drew up the Colorado River Compact in 1922, they had not realized that they were measuring the wettest years on the Colorado. They based all projections on that distorted statistics. There is price to pay. Chaco Canyon anyone? Communities flourished there 800 years ago. It is an archaeological site now.
A bunch of Easterners were "temporarily" not Mowing the dang Grass, with that Shitbox Lawnmower, ever again, which led to a permanent settlement or two, in the Desert. Mower Repairman retired, the previous year and sent his favorite old Customers some Peyote, via UPS or "U (need to try this) Peyote. Share."
@@bircruz555 They always knew, they deliberately distorted those statistics. The guy whom the lake is named after warned the government they had to drastically rethink how they were settling and managing land.
Starting to think the desert states would be the obvious first casualties when we pump dramatic amounts of heat trapping gases into our atmosphere. Climate scientists will tell you the same thing: The massive changes in temperatures in the past 800,000 years correlated directly with atmospheric CO2 concentration. Only it's happening at a much more extreme and rapid pace right now because we're pumping fossil fuel carbon into the air on top of already changing levels of co2.
60,000 palm trees in LA. Not a tree, but a form of grass. Uses huge amounts of water and is not native. Palms need a constant source of water. Same as in Denver. You brought in trees that are not native which require water not provided naturally for their survival.
I remember visiting Hoover Dam in 1983 and watching the spillway overflow in action. It was a spectacular site to see. Went back two years ago and was very sad watching the water level drop extremely low. Never in my lifetime I would have experience this event ☹️
It was put here to provide irrigation flood control and electricity. ,you dipstick.Are you going to sell your tesla and live with oil lamps and bathe once a year?
@ThoughtCrime You misunderstand, I love in a farm community that supplies 42% of the onions and chili in the US, and 84% of the pecans.Theyve been growing ever since our reservoirs were built in 1912.If you dont like to eat, that suits me.Our cattle need water, too. You like hamburger? It needs water too. If youre set on suicide, its okay, I wont argue with you.
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 Definitely not permanent. Glen Canyon Dam is built on sand stone not bed rock. The dam was close to failure during the flood in early 80's (could not release enough water fast enough). Im sure The Army Corp of Engineers were scared of potential failure. They were lucky the river stopped flooding. (Not the biggest flood this river has seen) Just my opinion
Watch Life After People if you want to see what happen, it gives a good approximation. It doesn't take long for nature to erase us. If we get too big for our breaches, Mother Nature will flush her toilet.
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 You're not what I'd call a "thinker" are you? In a few billion years the sun will burn out and destroy the Earth. Eventually the Universe will likely grow completely cold or may even collapse. The only thing around here that seems permanent is your stupidity.
Yea, thats usually how it goes when monstrous cities and farming in the desert use up more water than is going in. Lots of people have some nice green lawns in the middle of the desert at least. 👍
No no. The Colorado river would flood like crazy every year if it wasn't for the dam. Getting electricity from controlling the river is a perk and all sorts of people get to go boating on it.
@@calartian85 If you mean to teach them to understand how democracy works and to be good productive citizens. If you teach them how the earth sustains us and how we must protect it for our own safety, then ok. "Your kids" need others to survive just like mine.
This is USA of course the vanity of motor boating will be more important to most people than the actual conservation of resources critical for the regions survival.
Imagine feeding half of the world's population on man made food on a planet with constant population growth. Well, that's EXACTLY what we do! Credit to the Haber Bosch process of nitrogen fixing supporting 3.5 BILLION people. We do this all the time. Mankind supports FAR more population with all sorts of "man made" stuff, like modern transportation, agriculture and medicine, just to name a few. Just because we now rely on these things doesn't mean it's stupid or irresponsible.
It was heartbreaking when they built the Glen Canyon Dam, senselessly flooding 'Cathedral in the Desert' and other treasures, just to prevent Lake Mead and Hoover Dam from silting up. It was only from a public outcry that the same fools were prevented from building a dam which would have flooded Grand Canyon. Thus far they have not prevailed. To see these magnificent natural treasures reduced to cesspools with bathtub rings around them shocks the sensibilities of anyone who appreciates the unrivaled beauty of the desert Southwest.
New mexico.We have a few small reservoirs that are nearly dry. Soon, the crops we raise will be obsolete. Yall boat people can eat dirt after its gone.
I had to suffer through the video to find what you were talking about. You were spot on. LOL! They all look like old hippies turned college professors on some bad brown acid trip. You'll be damned sure they're going to brainwash every single student they come across.
@@alpine.tarzan yes it is, the desert southwest was exactly that before all the irrigation and ground water pumping started. Plenty of life in even the driest of deserts
@@noelleonard2498 I keep telling people, you contain and overtax a water source, change the area by population, emissions changing atmosphere composition and you pay for it.
So refreshing not seeing the climate crazies taking over the reporter, producer and park personnel. Actually providing balanced insight that in some ways the climate could recover on it's own.
it's the same message from the climatechange deniers...'hope', 'could', 'pray','it's all a lie'... yeah, we heard that for over 30 years.. it's not getting better "on it's own"...
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
@@talusranch990 Where are you from? Out here in the west it was a huge river that ran wall to wall in the canyons when Powell explored it. Now it's just an oversized creek.
Is severe drought really the issue or is it civilization expansion in the desert causing more and more water to be sucked out of the lakes for human consumption and irrigation?
Its drought weather natural, or human consumption.Drought is" not having water, rain, fog or precipitation . Drought means dry. Drought doesnt mean you did it, or I did it, or mother nature.If you want to point fingers, look in the mirror
I remember back in 84, when Lake Powell's water level rose to within 5 feet of over flowing the top of Glenn Canyon Dam and even running the spillways wide open couldn't push it back. We're in a severe draught now, it won;t last, they never do. Luckilly, Glenn Canyon and Hoover dams were designed to store prodigious amounts of water for just such drought conditions and they are proving their metal right now. We could easily go another 7 years of extreme drought before we'd be in real trouble. One good year of extreme snowfall could get us out of this.
No Nestles want to steal our water from the Great Lakes so they can bottle and sell it back to us. We have been protecting Lake Superior in MN for years from pollution etc. Gas and oil wants to come right thru a huge part of the lake. I say b. S. I’ll dry my clothes outside, go to bed earlier, and ride my bike. Don’t contaminate our water. 3M has contaminated a huge aquifer in the middle eastern part of the state back in the 70’s when they made Teflon coating. You can’t get the stuff out. As the water table goes down the pollution count in water goes up. This whole world will be crying for water. 60 years ago when I was brushing my teeth my mother would say turn the water off when brushing, you wasting water, some day there won’t be any. I’d thought to my self - yeh sure. Look what’s happening now. We water golf courses, grow plants and grass in a desert. The planet earth will take care of itself but not us. We had our chance. Tectonic plates are moving. More earth quakes and more volcanoes are erupting every year. Oh, Nestles tried to buy water from Dakota County in MN. They said no. They are buying water from somewhere in Michigan. (That’s Great Lakes area.). No one seems to care. I do.
Nestle is handling things differently, by using Fda-approved (in 2012) aborted human embryo cells/dna as a "natural flavor", eh. Hence, the candy commercials mocking cannibalism. The Geo crap is handled by others.
@@anotherone5926 Yes and no one likes that truth but it's real. It's in our soft drinks, lays chips, Gatorade, Pepsi, coke, yada yada. Stay woke people, satan is running amok.
We have the same issue in New Mexico with a different bottle water company. Its a desert and somehow someone decided it was a good place to suck out the little water we have.
It's almost like we've dramatically altered the atmospheric chemical composition and continuously pumped in heat trapping gases and this isn't just happening in already-hot parts of the world.
Yes! Let's just make sure whatever is decided, it must include internal combustion engines, noise, and lots of selfish people in remote pristine areas before all the flora and fauna decide to hog it all uselessly for themselves. Don't we have zoos and museums for that stuff?
@@thecatfromoregon - Just stop with the "cultural appreciation" garbage. He can enjoy what he wants. Maybe he's 1/4 Indigenous American. Heck maybe even an eighth. At what exact % does it stop being your right to play music and it NOT be cultural appreciation. I see "bl4cks" running around that that look basically white or latino at best and THEY call themselves bl4ck. I have a buddy who is 1/8 Am Indian. You would never know. Is it cultural appropriation for him to play a flute like that?
I'm in Arizona but not for long, headed to Oklahoma where there's plenty, shhhhhh don't tell anyone else or the smart people who put lake Powell will show up in Oklahoma and ruin things there too
@@mypassionrc-studioxd40lous66 congrats on moving! Oklahoma sounds nice, less crowded. Cheaper rents and no water shortages? Sounds like a win to me. Good luck on your journey 😊
Let the boomers fend for themselves they use to walk up hill both ways in 12 feet of snow with no shoes on to school 7 days a week. They can handle this
The lowest level it's been since it was filled and likely to drop another 30 feet? I know! Let's build a 3 billion dollar pipeline to send what water is left to St George at a cost of $30,000 per household!
You would think with water levels as low as they are that states would restrict golf courses from watering their grass, and maybe cease production of almonds. It takes 1900 gallons of water for one pound of almonds. Neither of these measures would ever take effect because business is money and money is king.
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
@@adventurealley4151 That sounds dangerously close to encroaching on California's water supply to fuel endless growth & revenue generation for government programs intended to re-elect & enrich politicians promoting endless growth & revenue generation.
I agree some archeologist we're trying to get as much information as they could before the lake filled up. I remember reading a story about a husband and wife, That fought to try and persuve some area's.
I remember going to lake Powell my whole childhood and going to sand hill. It's crazy to see this. I remember seeing what the original water lvl was on the walls of the canyons. Can't imagine what it's like now. Very sad.
Phoenix also surprisingly doesn’t have the water shortages like California. Also, companies like nestle have depleted natural aquifers in Michigan while being based in Switzerland. Companies location doesn’t mean they are limited to that area.
@@greg6235 Home base close to 100°f, jobsite well over. Filtered tap water and then partially frozen in reusable containers. I had to water my cactus it's been so dry here.
Years ago, I saw some articles that spoke about the "Snowy Mountain Project" that took place in Australia. That continent has one major Mt. range located in the S/E corner. Winter snow run off sent about 50% of it's water into the ocean. A series of catch basins, tunneled pipeline to the interior, managed to reclaim much of that run off and pumping it inland, supplied sufficient irrigation to feed 25M more people. Each year here in the US, we lose countless amounts of water via the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers into the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention immense quantities of top soil. I can't help but wonder how much of those river might be processed much like that Snowy Mt. one and perhaps help farms and ranches upstream of Lake Powell, allowing more of it to reach the reservoir?
It’s usually great to see people remain positive in the face of challenging circumstances, but in this case it’s ignorance and stupidity on public display.
I'm a boater, jeeper, fisherman, hunter, and pilot. I am also an environmentalist! The female reporter characterized environmentalism as exclusively separate from being a recreation enthusiast as if one can be goth! Her statement was typical of most people's misunderstanding of the idea that someone can be be both.
We do know, it's cyclic. Lake Michigan is actually lower now than it has been in several years, but according to the "Karen's" the water level is out of control r/t global warming. No honey, the beaches on Lake Michigan will be back.
Was at Lake Powell 22 years ago and it looked like an ocean in some places. The water draw causes by uncontrolled growth in AZ and the farming in the deserts of AZ and CA will continue to cause water shortages along with Mother Nature’s unhappiness at human beings.
If Earth is the Mother; then Labor is the Father. We ought to begin seeing Life as we do in video games as an interactive relationship that is never static. Re-arrange the social organization of human societies with this subject as its main focal point. Humans need a project to feel good their lives meant something.
@@MyUndefeated You got that right! I've lost track of how many times I've skied across a wake only to have my trusty Glock 17 fly right out of the holster and into the drink! Or done a backflip on a wakeboard only to lose a perfectly good shoulder-slung AR-15 with some rather nice optics. :(
California gets 50% of the Colorado River out of 5 states you fcking moron do your research California has wasted and ruined what they get of the Colorado River, California needs to drop in the fcking Ocean dummy
Not even the homes, fact is Mother Nature never intended that folks in the numbers Las Vegas has grown to should build a pseudo-city with adjunct suburbs there. They need to return from whence they came (and just recently in increasing numbers), California!!
@@dwaynestimpson5449 It will return when the drought is over. We have something called weather cycles of drought and high precipitation years in the midwest, west and southwest.
@@Galen-864 Yeah, this all worked the way you said it, until climate change:)) now everything is out of order=)) so there is a chance it will not come back ever.
Typical millenial response,all about them and being disrespectful of an entire generation that the millenial snowflake crybabies will never ever be as good as...
And I need to get my groceries in a gigantic 8 cylinder, 6 passenger, 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup with 44" tires and a 'coal-rollin' dual exhaust - because ego. On weekends I mow my 2 acres of grass on a triple deck, zero turn riding mower with power steering, an air-ride seat 💺 and a refrigerated cup holder.
@@FJ80Coop Millennials are clueless, arrogant crybabies with big mouths, but little to say, intelligently. They are tv Programmed & enterTrained, to Demand a Free ride, on anybody else's back.
Lets hope someone can get the lake cleaned of the trash that's in it. If everyone takes a trash bag with them every time they visit and picks up trash and the state can get the big stuff like sunken boats it would sure be nice.😎👍🏻
Powell is enormous, it will never be cleaned, at least not by man. When that dam is gone there will be 200 square miles of mercury laced sludge, 300 feet deep filled with discarded houseboats, beer bottles and chip wrappers. 10000 years from now the Colorado will take care of it all and mankind will be a thin black stain in the rocks.
Keep in mind these areas have grown tens of millions of people since this lake was formed. So far we've done ok with turning the desert into an oasis but I think the alarm bells are starting to ring more than ever. More needs to be done to conserve. From Denver to the Western Slope of CO, Southern UT and Nevada,AZ and CA. It's time to start thinking hard about water conservation.
There's no escape. The Arctic has a huge ancient methane bomb of 50 gigatons - in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. The Arctic could be ice free all summer by next year - according to a recent SCRIPPS report on the "heat bombs" from the Pacific ocean going into the Arctic. So within five years then abrupt global warming will have doubled - at 104 F. - after that then photosynthesis shuts down. The planet will fry soon.
If its a news story its meant to make you think what they want, you will not get real information. Please learn to hear what they don't say. Chris floyd is correct, mockingbird T.V. (Tell-A- Vision) and its programming.
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
Adventure Alley your statement is ludicrous. Subsurface Aquifer recharge is totally dependant on surface water infiltration. Take a close look at the Snake River Basin Adjudication in Idaho. Subsurface water is definitely finite.
@@inthekitchen8842 Oroville dam overtopped February 2017. It was repaired. It's low also now, they're hauling houseboats out of it now it's so low. Feast or famine.
Ironic, John Wesley Powell, who was the first to explore the Grand Canyon, the lake is named for and served as the Director of the US Geological Survey, tried to tell Congress there should be little to no development west of the 100 degree longitude, because there wasn't enough water.
He also recommended state boundaries be established by watersheds. That would have saved SO many water management problems.
All California had to do was reclaim the rain but the environmentalist prevented that and it just washes out to see.
A great book to read, if you want to see how water in the west was used for power and leverage....read "Cadillac Desert". It's an eye opener....
@@chadpreston5549 Nonsense. The reservoirs haven't filled because it hasn't rained much.
@@doctorfloc It is a great book and I knew the author, Marc Reisner, who died too young. But the book is thirty years old now and a lot has changed.
When 40 million people live in a place that doesn't have water or their own source of electricity bad things are bound to happen eventually.
Absolutely! They say there in a 20 year drought? ITS A DESSERT!
I think a lot of the water goes to Southern California.
Most people can't comprehend that.
They just start screaming global warming. Stupidity has no bounds.
@@stephenburnage7687 because of the archaic way water rights are dealt out, Arizona has the most “Junior” rights and California has the most senior rights. I find a certain irony of CA residents moving to AZ in the middle of a mega drought.
And they also try to use that water source to grow a lot of water hungry crops. We’ve gotten away with making the area do a lot of things that Mother Nature never intended it to do for so long and now that it isn’t working out we try to double down. The entire southwest needs to relearn the lesson of the Salten Sea.
You can’t rob water all down the river and expect these damns to fill up…it’s a desert!
True, just gotta wait for it to fill up again
So obvious! But ppl will believe any lie they are told.
And they blame it on global warming.
It was never intended to be a lake in the first place. They act like the dam was intended to create a lake when Powell was only created to become just a reservoir for the dam itself.
I guess you don't understand Colorado gets 52%, Utah 23% and Wyoming 14% of the Upper Basin water, while California gets 59% of the Lower Basin water. This does not include the 1.5 million acre feet that must continue downriver for use by Mexico. The mostly "desert" states like Arizona get only 37% of the Lower Basin, and Nevada only 4%.
Can anyone else hear Sam Kinison screaming “IT’S A DESERT “
This ^^ 100%!
I like the part where Sam says..."we have deserts in america,we just dont live in them"...
Miss that guy so much
Oh! Ooooohhhhhhh!
'Ya see this? It's sand.
Ya know what it'll be in 100 years? IT'S GONNA BE FREAKIN' SAND!! AHHHHHHHHH'!
Past civilizations have come and gone into the sands of time. History shows this one will be no different....
I wouldn't use any derivative of the word "civilised" where America is concerned.
More like species, George Carlin said the earth will shake humanity off like a bad case of fleas 🤣
Like the people of Chaco canyon disappeared hundreds of years ago due to severe drought. It was so bad they resorted to cannibalism in the end.
GunBunny You would be hard pushed to find anyone in Europe who envies the US way of life, and even harder pressed to find anyone who would prefer to live there! For most of us, the idea of moving to the states is a nightmare scenario. The delusion amongst Americans that they have it so much better than elsewhere is comical.
@@spencerwilton5831 What you don't want to live in a theocracy ruled by 24% of the country (aka mouth breathing country bumpkins)?
all states using lake powell for drinking water are still issuing building permits . no pitty here
we have the same issues here in California. They continually state we do not have enough water for the farmers much less the citizens but continue to build and expand urban sprawl. They do not give any thought on how to store water but let it flow into the ocean.
@@peteflores245 the illeagles reproduce like rabbits........................let more of em in, suckass joe
you can't build uncontrollably and think there will always be water when the world is already overpopulated, and we have been in a drought for more than 30 years! People don't pay attention to anything...
hi C...
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all american land...
no need states at all
@@bestamerica yes states are needed federal government is suppose to guarantee our inalienable rights and provide for the common defense and that's it everything else is pose to be done on a state and local level CA needs to stop stealing the natural resources from other states
A drought in the desert?? I would've never thought
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
Its man made climate change if we have drought , or flooding?
@@KLRJUNE did you know theres much water diverted in that distance from this lake? Or what about evaporation? You can't just blame everything on climate change.
Maybe it pertains to how much they're emptying it from all the illegals.
It was just flooding in Louisiana
"Tough conservation measures." Like no more desert lawns and golf courses? Or is that just more than flesh and blood can endure?
How about it, lol.
Yep you know they wont let them courses dry up.
Build a golf course in the desert , what could possibly go wrong 🤔
@@number1genoa donald💩 trump could be attempting to play golf on it 🤣
The golf courses aren’t the problem, it’s all the water consumption from the people, their houses and lawns.
If it’s a 20 year drought then it’s not a drought, it’s the normal
touche...
"The Government forecast"? Oh great from Politician, to Virologists, and now meteorologists what could possibly go wrong....
Let's see if Next Year drops LESS or MORE than 35'. What do you all think? 🤔
But we need our golf courses
The new normal!
Scary!
Not sure if many will remember this, but the Colorado River used to flow into Mexico. The land all around for hundreds of miles where it flowed into Mexico was rich productive farmland. However with the dam, and our (USA’s) water usage, the Colorado River flowing into Mexico is now a small stream compared to what it used to be. That farmland, it’s a desert now. The USA has always contended “our River, our land, our water,” which I’m not sure is fair to Mexico. If you take water rights and laws in the USA into consideration, Mexico got the short end of the stick.
Absolutely
Thats also when like 10 people lived there, now, way too many people and not enough resources to take care of them all.
@@BobABooey. - Yes, but not as far back as you think. Hover Dam was built in the late 1930’s, in the 1950’s the problem became critical, by the 1960’s the area in Mexico where the Colorado river flowed became Un-farmable as there wasn’t enough water, by the 1970’s it was a desert.
Blame the pools and golf courses in Phoenix, Vegas and Los Angeles, better yet, blame the mindset.
Try blaming the idiots upstream who pull all the water before the southwestern states even get a chance at it! We cant take what isnt there you idiot, it's the jerks upstream of the lake who are preventing it from filling AND have the majority of the water draw allocated to them, Arizona gets almost nothing compared to Wyoming and Utah and other northern states
@Ggjj Ghj he has nothing to do with this you moron, get over it
There's lots of blame to go around, but hands down the largest consumers of Colorado River water by a large margin are alfalfa growers, and by extension, meat eaters. And I'm not moralizing or preaching vegetarianism, it's just a fact.
Nonsense. Agriculture uses 80% of the river
@@erictrenbeath9680 veggies need water too dude lol
Thank goodness the PARk Service refused the interview, THAT would have been embarrassing .
We live in a desert. Why is their no water. Mind-boggling mystery.
How did it fill up to begin with?
hi D U...
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find a water in the cactus water-saver or deep ground well
@@bigduke2452 Colorado river
@@bassdrumflextime1253 thanks capt obvious.
@@bigduke2452 haha no problem bro
The lake water level is projected to drop another 35 feet next year!?
Well at least the golf courses will be nice and green until there's no water left in Arizona.
Like the Palm Springs golf courses sucking the water table dry.
It'll drop more than 35'.
@@jeffvw1994 Most of the Coachella Valley golf courses use a decent amount of "purple water". But yes, there is a fair amount of trans-evaporation from them.
This lake Is 1200 ft deep. It will likely refill this monsoon season...
Before they built the dam, they went to each of the states that the Colorado river went through or touched. In order to sell the project they looked at rainfall records in the watershed area. They didn't have a lot of records, but they grabbed the numbers that jumped out at them. This amount of rainfall over a given area of watershed yielded a fixed volume of water. So, they had to issue water rights so they took this number, and promised or allocated each state a portion. Almost a hundred years later nobody ever thought to recheck the rainfall records and possibly modified allotments. Nobody wanted to see if a mistake was made in the beginning. After all in the western states of America, water is for fighting, whiskey is for drinking. Well rainfall records are much more complete now so a few folks started looking. Turns out before they built the dam, the yearly rainfall they thought was normal wasn't. In fact they used the data from exceptionally wet years. So, since the dam was built, they have been allocating the same number every year. They won't tell you that. But they will blame everything else...especially if they can get more control, money and power.
Sounds about right.
Thank you for taking the time to share this back story. Important information for real understanding.
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
So…what’s your point? Sounds normal to me. How about all the record building in Arizona going on right now? How can ANY building permit be issued to a water dependent project when there’s not enough to go around already? Crazy….
@@adventurealley4151 the problem is you. Too many of you. Too many demands for water.
3:32 “How do you beat something like this”?
By making annoying noise with a flute. 🤦♀️
I despise do gooders like those. Selfish they are.
It’s like all for his own personal use. Damned Karen.
Pray to a pagan god, that'll solve it.
It was a clarinet!
Why soes a place have to look really cool to be """sacred""? Why is a smelly, weed infected swamp, or a boring flat plain never sacred? Should have the same chances of being
Hey! Its a desert lets build golf courses and sell everybody a back yard pool. no problem! What could go wrong?
So true !
and they still don't care about the water even now. it's absolutely insane
It's almost as if it was too much common sense to put a cap on how many people are allowed to live in those cities as to not put strain on resources.
@@nee-grow Where there is population growth there is lost of freedom.
I'm embarrassed for you. What a moronic comment. Pools and golf courses are not a negative on the environment. You people are just so ignorant.
The amount of fresh water that dumps into the ocean every second out of the Columbia river alone is mind boggling. We're not out of water, we just need to manage what we have better.
I completely agree, they were talking about building some sort of a pipe from Texas to California some time ago for oil and gas, why not do that for water? There are areas that would dramatically benefit from the flood waters the devastate Houston it seems almost yearly, have it funnel the flood waters from the reserviors, lakes, rivers, streams, bayous all the areas that overflow when it floods, drop the levels so when it does flood they do not overflow so quickly which will allow time for it to open and begin pumping the flood waters to the states that need it, that would create jobs, protect homes, save lives, protect animal life, protect wild life, create vegetation in drought areas, the only problem I see is cost but it will pay itself off over time.
Biden says " NO pipelines"
You people voted him in now reap what you sow.
@@chuckstith838 You do realize that if the US falls, we fall together, one party will not be spared over the other.....its not reps vs dems, its the have's vs the have nots and none of yall seem to understand that.
@@kittiepride7772 Ever heard of self sufficiency without the government's help? Thats the way it used to be before things like welfare were invented. Im for more personal responsibility in every facet of our lives, especially at the state and local level and LESS big government....this is what the founders envisioned, not the screwed up world we have today.
You build a lake in a DESERT and it dries up. Surprise!
What?! No way lol
it didn't dry up, it would be just as full as it was at full pool if you morons would actually conserve your water or create a solution to the drought. Without this lake the western side of the U.S. would be in severe poverty
It all has to do with consumption, not drought. It's a desert. This is not a reliable region for water storage.
It logically has more to do with geoengineering - evaporating & moving moisture around.
True. Deserts are well known for droughts.
Oh man, the global warming freaks will be triggered by your statement.
@@judeodomhnaill9711 Of course. Plus, those are the same idiots that pile into cities forcing urban expansion. Most of them don't even realize temperatures are 5 to 10 degrees cooler outside city limits.
@@xanderz161 yup, the asphalt and cement raises the temperature. Man, I totally forgot that. Very common sense, but overlooked because of the "dire situation".
"There would be no water to distribute to the 40 million people who depend on that water..."
Lady, there wouldn't be 40 million people to distribute water to in the first place.
There is only a drought cause people insist on developing urban areas where is illogical to begin with!
@Retro Man We will have a similar discussion in 2050 about overpopulation.
@@wrathmachine7609 nice try. popultions are on the decline. look it up
@@jayb4087 it says that it 1920 the human count exceeded 2Bil and in 1960 we were at 3Bil and the rate keeps increasing. Look it up 😂
@@wrathmachine7609 Population drops as education and technology increase in a society. China JUST OK'ed 3rd child policy because their population is aging so quickly. The problem is in 3rd world countries where parents use children as retirement benefits. As they develop, their birthrate will drop too.
@@wrathmachine7609 And that discussion will be as much BS as this one is.....All of the world's population can fit into Jacksonville, FL. Could live comfortably in only Florida. But, if you are still around in 2050 you can go first to be killed. Maybe your children and grandkids would line up to go first too?
Don't you love seeing ostrich burying they're heads in the sand 🤣😂
not really......
"United We Stand With Our Heads Buried in Sand..." - Author unknown
You mean people who are in government and didn't want to do anything
California should be exporting water, not importing it. Time to build more desalination plants along the coast.
Do you have any idea how many environmentalist in California claim that desalination would over salinate the Pacific, the worlds largest ocean? 🤣 Countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel have not managed to do that in decades. Oh well, that California for ya! 🤦🏻♂️
@@jamram9924 Well, if they are true environmentalists and not just "mentalists", they will realize that the extra salt they worry about so much will actually keep the saline balance because of the extra ice melting in the oceans which is fresh water.
That would require Californians to think, plan years in advance, redirect money from idiot social programs and stop tryint export crazines to the other 49 States, not to mention quite simply mind your own business.
@@nickfreeman8303 good point.....
Starting to think the desert states were settled during a temporary wet spell and a drought is the regular weather pattern.
That actually is true. When they drew up the Colorado River Compact in 1922, they had not realized that they were measuring the wettest years on the Colorado. They based all projections on that distorted statistics. There is price to pay. Chaco Canyon anyone? Communities flourished there 800 years ago. It is an archaeological site now.
A bunch of Easterners were "temporarily" not Mowing the dang Grass, with that Shitbox Lawnmower, ever again, which led to a permanent settlement or two, in the Desert. Mower Repairman retired, the previous year and sent his favorite old Customers some Peyote, via UPS or "U (need to try this) Peyote. Share."
A dam is intended to store water for dry years. There'd still be plenty of water if they hadn't let it out to scrub the canyon nonsense.
@@bircruz555 They always knew, they deliberately distorted those statistics. The guy whom the lake is named after warned the government they had to drastically rethink how they were settling and managing land.
Starting to think the desert states would be the obvious first casualties when we pump dramatic amounts of heat trapping gases into our atmosphere. Climate scientists will tell you the same thing: The massive changes in temperatures in the past 800,000 years correlated directly with atmospheric CO2 concentration. Only it's happening at a much more extreme and rapid pace right now because we're pumping fossil fuel carbon into the air on top of already changing levels of co2.
60,000 palm trees in LA. Not a tree, but a form of grass. Uses huge amounts of water and is not native. Palms need a constant source of water. Same as in Denver. You brought in trees that are not native which require water not provided naturally for their survival.
I remember visiting Hoover Dam in 1983 and watching the spillway overflow in action. It was a spectacular site to see. Went back two years ago and was very sad watching the water level drop extremely low. Never in my lifetime I would have experience this event ☹️
It’s a man made lake in a desert. It’s not supposed to be there.
It was put here to provide irrigation flood control and electricity. ,you dipstick.Are you going to sell your tesla and live with oil lamps and bathe once a year?
@ThoughtCrime You misunderstand, I love in a farm community that supplies 42% of the onions and chili in the US, and 84% of the pecans.Theyve been growing ever since our reservoirs were built in 1912.If you dont like to eat, that suits me.Our cattle need water, too. You like hamburger? It needs water too. If youre set on suicide, its okay, I wont argue with you.
They almost lost the dam (and lake) in the early 1980's to massive flooding. Nothing is permanent.
Nothing is permanent? You must be a child to write something so stupid.
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 and you must be a child to think anything man made is permanent....
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 Definitely not permanent. Glen Canyon Dam is built on sand stone not bed rock. The dam was close to failure during the flood in early 80's (could not release enough water fast enough). Im sure The Army Corp of Engineers were scared of potential failure. They were lucky the river stopped flooding. (Not the biggest flood this river has seen) Just my opinion
Watch Life After People if you want to see what happen, it gives a good approximation. It doesn't take long for nature to erase us. If we get too big for our breaches, Mother Nature will flush her toilet.
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 You're not what I'd call a "thinker" are you? In a few billion years the sun will burn out and destroy the Earth. Eventually the Universe
will likely grow completely cold or may even collapse. The only thing around here that seems permanent is your stupidity.
At least we know what happens when you put a lake in the desert
They never saw it coming.
Yea, thats usually how it goes when monstrous cities and farming in the desert use up more water than is going in. Lots of people have some nice green lawns in the middle of the desert at least. 👍
Dumping all that water on Del Webb's " life tested golf course communities" has finally taken its toll.
Golf courses are a global problem. Another good reason to hate golf.
Build nuclear power plants and let the rivers flow freely. Then we'll have plenty of water for irrigation
When you try and build a society in the desert without ample water supply .
** When you build a society in the desert and try to make it green instead of adapting to living in a desert.
And you over use a natural resource.
BINGO !!!
hello Las Vegas
No no. The Colorado river would flood like crazy every year if it wasn't for the dam. Getting electricity from controlling the river is a perk and all sorts of people get to go boating on it.
We need to go back to mandatory primary education so people learn the basic facts of our world.
@hi there I actually agree, the stupid should not reproduce. But their innocent children deserve a good education.
Teach your kids what you want them to know. They are Your kids.
@@calartian85 If you mean to teach them to understand how democracy works and to be good productive citizens. If you teach them how the earth sustains us and how we must protect it for our own safety, then ok. "Your kids" need others to survive just like mine.
@@calartian85 the problem is that other people's kids are not learning what they should
Knowledge is bad, we are told that from the very beginning... don't eat the apple.
Don’t worry the government will find a fix as soon as the lake drys up.
😂😂
Um boating? Isn’t this about drinking water and food irrigation?
This is USA of course the vanity of motor boating will be more important to most people than the actual conservation of resources critical for the regions survival.
Everyone loves boating. Not everyone loves water.
Yeah and boating just like whatever you do for fun that I thinks sucks but you do it don't you
@@TokenTombstone I like to MotorBoat😜
@@TokenTombstone Yeah cause boats use up water.
Imagine having a man made lake in a desert with a constant population growth while using said water.
Ewwwwwwww!
Imagine feeding half of the world's population on man made food on a planet with constant population growth. Well, that's EXACTLY what we do! Credit to the Haber Bosch process of nitrogen fixing supporting 3.5 BILLION people.
We do this all the time.
Mankind supports FAR more population with all sorts of "man made" stuff, like modern transportation, agriculture and medicine, just to name a few. Just because we now rely on these things doesn't mean it's stupid or irresponsible.
@Johnny White how much water do you use per day?
@Johnny White So if you don’t know how much water you use per day, you’re just as bad as the rest of us. LOL
@Johnny White yea okay, however you wanna justify it.
It was heartbreaking when they built the Glen Canyon Dam, senselessly flooding 'Cathedral in the Desert' and other treasures, just to prevent Lake Mead and Hoover Dam from silting up. It was only from a public outcry that the same fools were prevented from building a dam which would have flooded Grand Canyon. Thus far they have not prevailed. To see these magnificent natural treasures reduced to cesspools with bathtub rings around them shocks the sensibilities of anyone who appreciates the unrivaled beauty of the desert Southwest.
New mexico.We have a few small reservoirs that are nearly dry. Soon, the crops we raise will be obsolete. Yall boat people can eat dirt after its gone.
I live in the desert southwest.
We need to stop wasting water on golf courses and grass in the desert
Does Las Vegas recycle it's waste water like L.A. does?
The guy with the flute and the air head liberal lady smiling at him was a bit much.
Couldn't agree more- hilarious!
Hahaha,,I thought the same thing!
I had to suffer through the video to find what you were talking about. You were spot on. LOL! They all look like old hippies turned college professors on some bad brown acid trip. You'll be damned sure they're going to brainwash every single student they come across.
Libtards
I know. That guy probably thinks Joe Biden actually won the election.
On plus side, I think it is cool to see things exposed after being lost in the depths for whatever amount of years such as that boat, cave, etc.
Hopefully they will remove the man made junk they see.
Number of years, not amount of years.
@@kaisercc Thank you for letting us know how smart you are.
at least theres lots of sand for everyone to stick their heads in....
LOL
Most underrated comment on this thread. And based on the small number of responses, there's the proof of where all the other heads are.
Arizona needs a huge wake up call.
@@nicolea8205 the entire praires in canada have no rain either, its not just arizona. there are NO CROPS this year.
There's a lot more to this story than is being covered here....
Welcome to modern America, where to news is fake and so is the money.
Of course there is. The media never reports anything but lies. They never report the entire story because they want to blame it on us.
@@KevinBenecke One of the biggest lies is man made climate change.
@drgdawson. And I notice that you didn't bother to mention even one example of what more is going on?!
@@edwardcuevas6974 Are you also in that crowd that also thinks that Trump won the election despite all the evidence to the contrary? 🙄
Nature always wins an takes back what it started the way it was.
This isnt nature winning.
@@alpine.tarzan yes it is, the desert southwest was exactly that before all the irrigation and ground water pumping started. Plenty of life in even the driest of deserts
@@noelleonard2498 I keep telling people, you contain and overtax a water source, change the area by population, emissions changing atmosphere composition and you pay for it.
Mother nature is undefeated.
Can't wait to see the desert Canyons again but there was always a river running through beautiful ecosystems in places for wild people
Nestle must have opened a new plant nearby.
or Coca-Cola.
So refreshing not seeing the climate crazies taking over the reporter, producer and park personnel. Actually providing balanced insight that in some ways the climate could recover on it's own.
it's the same message from the climatechange deniers...'hope', 'could', 'pray','it's all a lie'... yeah, we heard that for over 30 years.. it's not getting better "on it's own"...
This is the beginning of a long term drought. The party is over.
The Colorado River was once a mighty River
Now it's just a shadow of What it once was.
California is a major issue......
Because the greenie army won't let them build dams in CA.
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
It was never mighty. You need to get out more buddy.
@@talusranch990 Where are you from? Out here in the west it was a huge river that ran wall to wall in the canyons when Powell explored it. Now it's just an oversized creek.
@@Galen-864 Skagit river for starters waxes Colorado
Is severe drought really the issue or is it civilization expansion in the desert causing more and more water to be sucked out of the lakes for human consumption and irrigation?
Yes. Both are true...
Its geo-engineering programs by your tax dollars you tools!
@@governmentequalsmindcontrol Bwahahahaha!! Lemme guess, you think Fox is actually News, don’t you?
Its drought weather natural, or human consumption.Drought is" not having water, rain, fog or precipitation . Drought means dry. Drought doesnt mean you did it, or I did it, or mother nature.If you want to point fingers, look in the mirror
DO YOU EAT? IRRIGATION GROWS YOUR FOOD.
Fluffy, the perky newsreader ends with
"Wow! I'm so glad they are looking at the positive!"
I remember back in 84, when Lake Powell's water level rose to within 5 feet of over flowing the top of Glenn Canyon Dam and even running the spillways wide open couldn't push it back. We're in a severe draught now, it won;t last, they never do. Luckilly, Glenn Canyon and Hoover dams were designed to store prodigious amounts of water for just such drought conditions and they are proving their metal right now. We could easily go another 7 years of extreme drought before we'd be in real trouble. One good year of extreme snowfall could get us out of this.
I am sure that Nestle has a vested interest
Thieves
No Nestles want to steal our water from the Great Lakes so they can bottle and sell it back to us. We have been protecting Lake Superior in MN for years from pollution etc. Gas and oil wants to come right thru a huge part of the lake. I say b. S. I’ll dry my clothes outside, go to bed earlier, and ride my bike. Don’t contaminate our water. 3M has contaminated a huge aquifer in the middle eastern part of the state back in the 70’s when they made Teflon coating. You can’t get the stuff out. As the water table goes down the pollution count in water goes up. This whole world will be crying for water. 60 years ago when I was brushing my teeth my mother would say turn the water off when brushing, you wasting water, some day there won’t be any. I’d thought to my self - yeh sure. Look what’s happening now. We water golf courses, grow plants and grass in a desert. The planet earth will take care of itself but not us. We had our chance.
Tectonic plates are moving. More earth quakes and more volcanoes are erupting every year. Oh, Nestles tried to buy water from Dakota County in MN. They said no. They are buying water from somewhere in Michigan. (That’s Great Lakes area.). No one seems to care. I do.
Nestle is handling things differently, by using Fda-approved (in 2012) aborted human embryo cells/dna as a "natural flavor", eh.
Hence, the candy commercials mocking cannibalism.
The Geo crap is handled by others.
@@ChinoEyes1 It's much worse than that.
@@anotherone5926 Yes and no one likes that truth but it's real. It's in our soft drinks, lays chips, Gatorade, Pepsi, coke, yada yada. Stay woke people, satan is running amok.
Meanwhile, here in SE Texas we have been getting hammered with rain. Our lakes are overflowing.
Don't tell them that they'll want to pipeline it in from there
@@stayonit8026 Biden wouldn’t let em.
Well that’s Texas, always to much of what they don’t need, like people.
@@paulmeyers3832 7 years ago the lakes here were at record lows. Filled up in one weekend. It’s the weather stupid...
In SE Oklahoma we have had rain for the past week and rain forecast for next week
How dare the earth change and keep us humans from our drunken shenanigans
Edward Abbey predicted all of this when the Glen Canyon dam was built
Desert Solitaire is one my favorite books of all time.
@@egads2 the Sun.
Nestle drains water from this lake for their bottled water.
Is this true?
@@taylorgall9516 yup
Nestle is one of the biggest crooks ever. They are doing this in so many places.
We have the same issue in New Mexico with a different bottle water company. Its a desert and somehow someone decided it was a good place to suck out the little water we have.
Who let you guys off reddit?
It's almost like you aren't supposed to live in a desert.
It's almost like we've dramatically altered the atmospheric chemical composition and continuously pumped in heat trapping gases and this isn't just happening in already-hot parts of the world.
It won't be long before you'll have to sell your boats and buy sand buggies
It needed to go non-motorized along time ago. Still a great lake for kayaking.
Dude, get with the times. Invest in VR goggles at the park entrance. Customize your stay. A Billionaire, be Poseidon or captain stabin.
Mad max comes to mind
Yes! Let's just make sure whatever is decided, it must include internal combustion engines, noise, and lots of selfish people in remote pristine areas before all the flora and fauna decide to hog it all uselessly for themselves. Don't we have zoos and museums for that stuff?
@Thank You For Tuning In IT"S 'NEILDO'
You got to stop waste water on landscaping on homes and businesses if you live in a desert you do not need grass
You first.
He lost me the second he played the flute.
Cultural appropriation up the wazoo. White liberals are as guilty of it as white conservatives.
@@thecatfromoregon - Just stop with the "cultural appreciation" garbage. He can enjoy what he wants. Maybe he's 1/4 Indigenous American. Heck maybe even an eighth. At what exact % does it stop being your right to play music and it NOT be cultural appreciation. I see "bl4cks" running around that that look basically white or latino at best and THEY call themselves bl4ck. I have a buddy who is 1/8 Am Indian. You would never know. Is it cultural appropriation for him to play a flute like that?
@@thecatfromoregon Computers are part of white culture. Stop appropriating white culture, and get off the internet.
@@PayNoTaxes0GetNoVote it was cringe
It was so bad I had to mute it. lol
Really happy to be leaving Arizona before the water wars start.
I'm in Arizona but not for long, headed to Oklahoma where there's plenty, shhhhhh don't tell anyone else or the smart people who put lake Powell will show up in Oklahoma and ruin things there too
@@mypassionrc-studioxd40lous66 congrats on moving! Oklahoma sounds nice, less crowded. Cheaper rents and no water shortages? Sounds like a win to me. Good luck on your journey 😊
This is catastrophic! This could seriously affect Baby Boomer's boating/golfing and gambling schedules! Something must be done.
Let the boomers fend for themselves they use to walk up hill both ways in 12 feet of snow with no shoes on to school 7 days a week. They can handle this
I don't think it's just Baby Boomer gambling, boating, and golfing.
The lowest level it's been since it was filled and likely to drop another 30 feet? I know! Let's build a 3 billion dollar pipeline to send what water is left to St George at a cost of $30,000 per household!
You would think with water levels as low as they are that states would restrict golf courses from watering their grass, and maybe cease production of almonds. It takes 1900 gallons of water for one pound of almonds. Neither of these measures would ever take effect because business is money and money is king.
I can see this transitioning to archeological findings to our history as water levels go lower who agrees?
the lake was only made in the 60's but you never know
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
@@adventurealley4151 That sounds dangerously close to encroaching on California's water supply to fuel endless growth & revenue generation for government programs intended to re-elect & enrich politicians promoting endless growth & revenue generation.
👍👍👍👍👍
I agree some archeologist we're trying to get as much information as they could before the lake filled up. I remember reading a story about a husband and wife, That fought to try and persuve some area's.
Not really a problem since the volcanoes are all waking up.
I remember going to lake Powell my whole childhood and going to sand hill. It's crazy to see this. I remember seeing what the original water lvl was on the walls of the canyons. Can't imagine what it's like now. Very sad.
And yet the city of Phoenix has more bottled water companies than any other city in the USA.
Phoenix also surprisingly doesn’t have the water shortages like California. Also, companies like nestle have depleted natural aquifers in Michigan while being based in Switzerland. Companies location doesn’t mean they are limited to that area.
Lol. So true. I used to live there and work for one.!
Gee, it was almost 100 degrees here today, so yes, bottled water is the easiest and best way to consume water.
@@greg6235 Home base close to 100°f, jobsite well over. Filtered tap water and then partially frozen in reusable containers. I had to water my cactus it's been so dry here.
Years ago, I saw some articles that spoke about the "Snowy Mountain Project" that took place in Australia. That continent has one major Mt. range located in the S/E corner. Winter snow run off sent about 50% of it's water into the ocean. A series of catch basins, tunneled pipeline to the interior, managed to reclaim much of that run off and pumping it inland, supplied sufficient irrigation to feed 25M more people. Each year here in the US, we lose countless amounts of water via the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers into the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention immense quantities of top soil. I can't help but wonder how much of those river might be processed much like that Snowy Mt. one and perhaps help farms and ranches upstream of Lake Powell, allowing more of it to reach the reservoir?
Drought, it’s a desert. You can thank California and Arizona.
Looks like a good time to extend the boat ramp!
That ramp is closed like that even when the water is up.
Good time to extend the boat launch ramp!🤭
It’s usually great to see people remain positive in the face of challenging circumstances, but in this case it’s ignorance and stupidity on public display.
I'm a boater, jeeper, fisherman, hunter, and pilot. I am also an environmentalist! The female reporter characterized environmentalism as exclusively separate from being a recreation enthusiast as if one can be goth! Her statement was typical of most people's misunderstanding of the idea that someone can be be both.
Appreciate her honesty about climate change. We don’t know.
We do know, it's cyclic. Lake Michigan is actually lower now than it has been in several years, but according to the "Karen's" the water level is out of control r/t global warming. No honey, the beaches on Lake Michigan will be back.
@@jor604 , yeah, we know it’s happening, my point was the short term is always an anomaly.
I still remember back in the ‘70s, when the scare was the coming “ice age.” Because of human impact on the environment. I’m still waiting.
Was at Lake Powell 22 years ago and it looked like an ocean in some places. The water draw causes by uncontrolled growth in AZ and the farming in the deserts of AZ and CA will continue to cause water shortages along with Mother Nature’s unhappiness at human beings.
California buys 25% of its water from Arizona.
Mother Earth is doing just fine.
Conditions conducive to humans, not as much.
Conditions conduscive to human wants and desire.
Earth it's not our mother, and have you ever heard of weather modification? Yeah it's a thing
If Earth is the Mother; then Labor is the Father.
We ought to begin seeing Life as we do in video games as an interactive relationship that is never static.
Re-arrange the social organization of human societies with this subject as its main focal point.
Humans need a project to feel good their lives meant something.
Mother Earth ???
@@P4Eight
Yes, it is. And look how well things are turning out when we try and second guess nature.
Your Producers/Editors are great.
California is experiencing the same drought conditions in many of our lakes.
But others upstream may control the flow, unadulterated capitalism may occur
Sounds like a lot of fishing gear is getting recovered.
And stolen cars.
And guns lost in boating accidents...
@@MyUndefeated Let me know if you find mine. It's 4 ARs and 20k rounds of ammo. Thanks.
@@MyUndefeated You got that right! I've lost track of how many times I've skied across a wake only to have my trusty Glock 17 fly right out of the holster and into the drink! Or done a backflip on a wakeboard only to lose a perfectly good shoulder-slung AR-15 with some rather nice optics. :(
@@paulhare662 M1A2 Abrams. I even had a conceal carry permit for it. Send it my way if you find it, no one else needs to know. ;-)
It’s alright y’all. It’s raining here in CO fir weeks now. Y’all get to have our water soon.
West or east slope?
The factors at play in this scenario are right out of Idiocracy.
Las Vegas is a huge waste of water. Vegas should only get enough water for personal consumption in the homes 🏡.
California gets 50% of the Colorado River out of 5 states you fcking moron do your research California has wasted and ruined what they get of the Colorado River, California needs to drop in the fcking Ocean dummy
Vegas...is a waste of a perfectly good DESERT!
And yes...Cali wastes soooo much water......
Yeah you too dummy
Not even the homes, fact is Mother Nature never intended that folks in the numbers Las Vegas has grown to should build a pseudo-city with adjunct suburbs there. They need to return from whence they came (and just recently in increasing numbers), California!!
Cut off Southern CA from the Colorado.
Let them get their water from the ocean.
Yeah, it’s a great plan when you roll the dice every year on a spring runoff.
Plenty of fresh water here in the Great Lakes...reminds me I gotta go move the lawn sprinklers
California needs to use the ocean and their own water system. Cut them off
California has plenty of water. Unfortunately, corporations have access to it. They bottle it and ship it around the world.
California borders the river and has senior rights to all others. Not gonna happen
I cannot wait for water levels to return. We visited several times more than 20 years ago and it remains some of our favorite vacations.
It’s not going to return.
Roger.. You'd best find another place to vacation.
Try Zion and all of southern Utah.
@@dwaynestimpson5449 It will return when the drought is over. We have something called weather cycles of drought and high precipitation years in the midwest, west and southwest.
@@Galen-864 Yeah, this all worked the way you said it, until climate change:)) now everything is out of order=)) so there is a chance it will not come back ever.
I doubt it ever comes back to historic levels. Deadpool!
As the water resources disappear the State of California is demanding more housing?
Imperial Valley vegetable production is more critical the California housing .....oh and Southern Utah housing that wants a pipe for new housing.
Texan here. The Colorado River hasn't touched the gulf since before I was a small child. I'm 65yrs old!
"Our grass is green, our grandkids don't need water"
Typical boomers only caring for themselves and not caring for the future.
Typical millenial response,all about them and being disrespectful of an entire generation that the millenial snowflake crybabies will never ever be as good as...
And I need to get my groceries in a gigantic 8 cylinder, 6 passenger, 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup with 44" tires and a 'coal-rollin' dual exhaust - because ego.
On weekends I mow my 2 acres of grass on a triple deck, zero turn riding mower with power steering, an air-ride seat 💺 and a refrigerated cup holder.
@FJ80Coop nah everyone hates boomers, because they ruined society
@@FJ80Coop Millennials are clueless, arrogant crybabies with big mouths, but little to say, intelligently. They are tv Programmed & enterTrained, to Demand a Free ride, on anybody else's back.
LoL I Like how they are looking at the positive side of things ....
On the bright side, you have a lot of room in case of heavy rains and a lot of snow.
It dosent really rain here at lake powell, the majority of the water comes from snow packs at higher elevations.
Exactly, it will fill back up
The title vs every going 'yeah, it's cool. we're still having fun.'
Lets hope someone can get the lake cleaned of the trash that's in it. If everyone takes a trash bag with them every time they visit and picks up trash and the state can get the big stuff like sunken boats it would sure be nice.😎👍🏻
Those sunken boats are just fine because it gives the marine life a place to live just like when they sink old ships in the ocean.
Powell is enormous, it will never be cleaned, at least not by man. When that dam is gone there will be 200 square miles of mercury laced sludge, 300 feet deep filled with discarded houseboats, beer bottles and chip wrappers. 10000 years from now the Colorado will take care of it all and mankind will be a thin black stain in the rocks.
Keep in mind these areas have grown tens of millions of people since this lake was formed. So far we've done ok with turning the desert into an oasis but I think the alarm bells are starting to ring more than ever. More needs to be done to conserve. From Denver to the Western Slope of CO, Southern UT and Nevada,AZ and CA. It's time to start thinking hard about water conservation.
Southern California should get most of their water from the ocean yet the envirmentalist fight the plants every step.
The draining by seven states of this valuable resource as it travels toward the Gulf of Mexico now means it never reaches its outlet!
I’m from Wisconsin, I’ll buy your boat for half of what you paid for it. 😂🤣😂
Right! Some here!
My boat is almost 25 years old. I can meet you this weekend.
Boats/cars lose half their value when you take them home from the show room lol . .so that's a very generous offer
There's no escape. The Arctic has a huge ancient methane bomb of 50 gigatons - in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. The Arctic could be ice free all summer by next year - according to a recent SCRIPPS report on the "heat bombs" from the Pacific ocean going into the Arctic. So within five years then abrupt global warming will have doubled - at 104 F. - after that then photosynthesis shuts down. The planet will fry soon.
Is it necessary to have all the background overlayed pinging noise while this important information is being expressed?
Operation mocking bird.
If its a news story its meant to make you think what they want, you will not get real information. Please learn to hear what they don't say. Chris floyd is correct, mockingbird T.V.
(Tell-A- Vision) and its programming.
I remember they were talking like this about oriville dam in northern CA before it over topped and the spillway collapsed on its first use.
Primary water is completely renewable and could refill all lakes, rivers and ponds. Put the pumps along the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Call state and local government officials and ask them why they are not doing this? We do not not have to be hostage to surface water.
Adventure Alley your statement is ludicrous. Subsurface Aquifer recharge is totally dependant on surface water infiltration. Take a close look at the Snake River Basin Adjudication in Idaho. Subsurface water is definitely finite.
Im so worried that Oroville Dam is going to bust.
@@inthekitchen8842 Oroville dam overtopped February 2017. It was repaired. It's low also now, they're hauling houseboats out of it now it's so low. Feast or famine.