Well, as an engineer, I do not see the lake drying up. I was able to get a schematic of the dam. As the out flow diminishes, the lake water will become more deteriorated. It has already started. 895 foot level is complete dead pool. We are at 1040 at this time. According to my diagrams the same tubes that feeds the generators are also the lake bypass to down stream. I can see a reduction of water pressure to the generators. This dam was not built to handle low lake level. I was told there is a bypass tube at 800 ft. If so it does not show on my diagrams.
A desert is a desert regardless of how it’s altered by humans. Lake Mead issue is alarming to me personally but I don’t think Arizona officials are anywhere near as alarmed/concerned as they should be. The reason I say that is because I am aware that Vegas has over 50 golf courses and Arizona is still allowing them to be watered to my knowledge. That’s kinda hard to wrap my mind around.
Here's the problem that you forgot something about it you know that every year that of forest fire that an in California but sometimes out of that California of the take that heat right there over the biggest ones forest fire in history record breaking but sometimes that are that well people cannot concentrated that about to have a job or they cannot do this or not to mention that I ever who is responsibility but the problem is that that selfish greedy politicians excuses blaming or somebody else's right there just like a how to say this people just forgot about it about to save the environment to stop going and to stop over using like a well electricity power for the cable line to connect it from houses for apartments but someday that are of a that cable will be disconnected and going to be replaced by solar power energy from the Sun is not to mention everyone emergency is that a battery and a free energy from your own apartment and even houses that's the truth
It's annoying that the state that uses that most water doesn't have to cut their water usage. I live in Arizona and our complex has fake grass and natural landscaping. There are some really nice fake grass options that a lot of these people need to invest in. It should be mandatory that if you live in the desert you use minimal amounts of water.
You see this because you are intelligent. They aren't . If they had concentrated on infrastructure FIRST then started building shopping malls and subdivisions there wouldn't be a problem. It would also be a big help if the ones in charge of water usage "rules" weren't the same ones with Olympic size swimming pools and 2 acre lawns with automatic sprinkler systems....
As Arizonan, I 100% aflgree with you. Any states including NV, parts of CA, UT, all grass yards must be illegal. And who's bright idea was it to start farming in the desert? Super retarded.
@@navgirljen Well fruit yes. If the water was used mostly for watering farms it would be different but lets be honest a ton is used for wants not needs.
@@navgirljen Then the people in charge should institute water usage guidelines that prioritize water usage for human consumption and cleanliness instead of swimming pools and lush green lawns. If you have to choose between eating, drinking, swimming and pretty green grass, what do you choose? That's easy for me. South America , Chile in particular, provides a lot of various fruits and vegetables where I live . But there may be more to some of this than meets the eye. Why are some of the richest Globalists on this planet buying up farmland now ? With one problem after the other, the public is being bombarded with inflation, restrictions , mandates and empty shelves in stores.....
I love it that the dude says mother nature is gonna have to come to the rescue. Dude, Momma nature is already here. She has come to reclaim what you ass holes built over her canyon. She is pissed and wants it back
It was a desert until it became Las Vegas basically you're going to lose your money your life and now we're going to lose one of my most precious metals water if we don't start doing some major overhaul with water usage
California desperately needs to start pulling their weight. Nevada & Arizona can’t keep shouldering this burden. I lived in The LA area for 2 years (2011-2013) and saw, first hand, how wasteful Californians are with water and complain bloody murder when they have to conserve. Nevada’s been doing it for decades.
Like the millions of gallons they just dump to the ocean in the attempts to SAVE a freakin' minnow? Drastically lowering reservoir levels during a so-called drought? Just ask Cal. farmers in the valley how much California cares about you.... They took away most or all of their water too!!
L.A. has been getting its water from both the Owen’s Valley (watch the movie “Chinatown”) and from No. California for decades. For the most part, No. Californians are good at conserving water. We, too, are tired of having water taken via an aqueduct that was sold by politicians in So. CA (where the bulk of the State’s wealthy live) supposedly as water for “agriculture.” In fact, a large portion of that water is used for the wealthy in L.A., mainly golf courses and swimming pools. The damage to No. CA has been great, and that is one reason you will periodically hear the rumblings of folks, particularly those in the Northern most counties of CA, who want to split up this huge State. As for AZ, they have plenty of golf courses and swimming pools, and developers continue to build homes by the thousands there. AZ is in for a huge surprise re: water…which they won’t have enough of!
California should be emptied out of the leeches living there, welfare recipients, homeless druggies, mentally ills who WON'T take their meds, dead beat parents, and any rioter. That's what ruined Cali.
I do believe in manmade climate change. But manmade stupidity wins every time. I think LA had around 10,000 people before Mulholland. The only crop was wheat. The future doesn't look good. And the most comical part is the population in those areas is still growing like crazy. The migration won't be from Mexico anymore.
Nature never intended water to rotate massive generators at 20,000rpm at the bottom of a massive dam either. But it does. I don't see any problem with a lake in the desert. The problem is millions of homes having grass and officials not outlawing it until 20 years into a 20 year drought.
Just looking at the colorado river compact, it's not a surprise, they actually divided the water that could be used but the total was more than what the river actually had, it had to cause problem at some point.
I was thinking this too but what if there aren't any alternative water sources for them to use? It's common sense that the desert has little water so you would think the authorities would get a better handle on the situation before that lake dries up completely. Perhaps they simply don't know what to do about it? IDK.
The Colorado river has been in a crisis for decades, yet they still keep building massive urban centers like Vegas. The story says Vegas gets ninety percent of its water from Lake Mead. This is simply insane to keep building, thus creating the need for more and more water. I lived in Vegas for a few years. I can't say I liked it much.
I live in Vegas and I don't like it much for a few reasons, but it must be said that it does manage to use a very small percentage of water compared to LA and Phoenix. Everything is xeroscaped here and there are strict watering schedules year round.
In order for the almost continuous drop in water levels over the past 22 years to reverse itself, either all the entities with straws in the river will need to suck less, or there will need to be more snow in the Rockies. Seems like every year the people who make the flow rate predictions are very, very , very optimistic about snow melt. Every year. Cockeyed optimistic. For 22 years. Think on that.
Even a spring with average snowmelt will still cause a shrinkage in the water level due to the ground at the tributaries being bone dry. Even if there was a normal snowpack and snowmelt the water would have to seep into the ground and moisten it before any water started to stream into reservoirs. This will mean very little water actually reaches the reservoirs. To stop this downward spiral in water levels we would have to have many winters that have not been seen in decades. When there is a prolonged doubt we can't reasonably expect that to happen. So, unfortunately this will get much much worse.
22 years is not a drought, it's a catastrophe and everyone is just turning a blind eye to it until they can't anymore and when that happens it's going to be chaos and mayhem and every person for themselves.
His mention @ Videos end of the World 🌎 Economic Forum,,,, says it all. Their plan is definitely falling in place. The beginning of birth pains… ! Most would focus on the nature aspects of this.. But Lack of conservation tactics and planned developments show the only ones in the reality of it are the residents….. Meanwhile The leaders (powers that b ) are heavily pressing things in a destructive pattern…… Same as with Many other national issues… Beginning of the end.
There are covers for pools that prevent almost all evaporation. They're also an excellent form of storage for a safe source of water and for fire protection.
Give this thought. What was once grown in Midwest is now grown in irrigated desert. The farms that were once in Midwest are now just not used. Plenty of water there. What happened? The irrigated cities and communities grew and each person needs water. Those that raise cattle in southwest are told how many any they can have per acre because of water and food for them. The same calculations can be used when it comes to how many humans can occupy. It is more consumption than it is climate change. Those huge Indian Pueblos that were deserted centuries ago were not in a dry climate when they were built. They were deserted because of natural climate change.
Your comment sort of reminds me of those in New Orleans who chose to build neighborhoods below sea level in an area that has a history of devastating hurricane floods.
Why is it everyone always delights in insulting other people, all I said was people move into the desert and HOA'S still require green grass. Doesn't matter how much or how little it will help. Any little bit of conservation is better than none and HOA'S should not require green grass in desert living. Just opinion and that other person and I am entitled to it as much as your opinion that it won't help much but I'm still not going to personally insult you for having an opinion. NV is on water conservation, CA and AZ aren't but should be, again, just my opinion. You have a wonderful day.
Am I the only one old enough to remember when it looked like Glen Canyon dam might get topped and they were using the emergency spillway at Hoover Dam? My prediction is the drought continue until it ends. They always do.
I live in the Midwest where my home state borders both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. We got no water shortages here! As if you needed more reasons to not move out west.
Not long ago Superior had dropped in level. As I remember, they do not know why this fluctuation occurs or predict when it will happen. Last I heard, levels have rebounded but since unpredictable, we are never out of the woods. The biggest implications of low lake levels are bulk carrier ships sometimes have to carry less than a full load. I live near the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, after pretty high water this spring, we are running a bit low and Minnehaha Creek is just a trickle. These are fluctuations we experience often so the biggest problem is for recreational boaters. My point is we are rich in water resources, because they are natural and not trying to be sustainable in a desert. Oh, and don’t even think about taking water from here to solve their problem…….
@@mplsmark222 There is a great lakes compact to protect them from others trying to take the water from the great lakes. I live on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Officials waited WAY TOO LONG before they forced homeowners to remove grass. The drought has been going on for 20 years and they just did this recently. 20 years! They should've banned grass 10 years ago. Too little too late. Imagine if the southwest loses it's water. Property values zero, millions on the move. Property values in nearby water sufficient areas will double. What were they thinking? Grass? In a dessert? Brilliant.
Residential use of the water is a drop in the bucket compared to agriculture use. Agriculture uses roughly 79% of all the water in Colorado River Basin. Massive conservation efforts should exist in the cities, but let's be realistic here. Even if that happened it would do very very little to the water levels. You can't completely blame the cities and let the agriculture industry off the hook. The biggest changes need to come from the use of water for agriculture. Yes, this will cause farmers to loose their livelihoods, but unfortunately most of the economic growth and development is in the cities. Blaming other people and ignoring the actual problem is going to get you nowhere. But hey, in sure there is some slimy corrupt politician who will get reelected if we keep preaching this nonsense.
I don't live in Arizona, Nevada or California , But my state is also in the midst of a bad drought, I feel like this very important issue and is very scary. It really makes me wonder what we're leaving our children.
It's not really up to humans to change climate it's up to humans to adapt to the changes in climate. The climate has always changed this is nothing new
No mention of California taking much more than their share of water allotment for years. While Arizona and Nevada conserve water, California wastes water. Case in point, desalinization of the Sultan Sea by sending fresh water into it from the Colorado river.
Well you live in the desert and there is a reason they call it that. Before they built the dam that was the nature of the area. We try and change nature to fit our needs but mother nature can not be beat.
We had water restrictions here is South Australia. No watering the lawn before 5pm. All houses had to have water tanks etc. The aquifer gets filled with storm water during winter and then reused on market gardens when needed. Though we still have issues with the eastern states taking too much water from the river Murray for irrigation etc leading to the Murray mouth in South Australia to close up, also making the salt level increase in the river.
The large showy water-features at the various ritzy casinos are using nonpotable saline water from beneath the city. Most of the river water is used to grow crops in AZ and S CA
I just love how everyone in Government thinks the solution is conservation. Conservation will be necessary however, it's just a drop in the bucket. Mother Nature is telling us that this is not a drought. The climate conditions these days are actually normal for the region. What we have seen in the near past was a spike in unusually wet period. The Government and States (And Mexico) based their usage numbers on faulty data. They are just now figuring it out? They knew about this #0 years ago and did nothing about it. They did what was politically expedient instead of what needed to be done. Now they can no longer kick the can down the road and are scrabbling to blame some else for this catastrophe. They obvious is "Climate Change". Regardless which side of the isle you stand concerning the political issue, the reality is that even if it was due to man's release of carbon into the atmosphere, they knew about this long enough ago to mitigate the issue to address Colorado water usage. They could have limited City growth along with industrial water consumption. They could have slowed down agricultural water needs long before the system was at its breaking point. To date, all I have heard is what the problem is and who is to blame. I hear very little concerning real fixes to the problem. So what are our options? 1.) construct a canal from the Gulf of California in Mexico all the way to the Sultan Sea. It solves California's environmental disaster from the Sultan Sea drying up releasing tons to toxic material. It also will provide the wetlands that are in jeopardy from perishing. It also stabilizes the Sultan Sea's salinity, pH, turbidity, temperature, viscosity, and evaporation levels. Once filled a massive construction project will take place to build desalinization plants close to the Sultan Sea. This will be the inlet to the plant system. Desalinization is a costly endeavor however, if the Federal Government were to fund such a project, they would see billions in return from the extra farmland growth and taxes generated. Fresh water would incise further industry to the SouthWest. All of this would bring in millions into new homes and communities as long as they have the water. If not then we will see a mass migration to the East like no other. Home prices will not crash but simply disappear as nobody wants their water turned on for 3 days out of the week for a few hours. Having to fill bathtubs for drinking water. Jail-time and hearty fines for violations. Business packing it up and moving away. We have until 2024 and that's it. We are at Deadpool in Lake Mead. That date is a prediction from mathematic evaluations from Lake Powell and its inability to send water down the river in 14 months. Nothing can stop what's about to happen but we can get busy now to build the canals and plants along with the pipes that will carry the water to all of the cities. 2.) Move water from the East to the West by way of aquifers. It filled up a water shortage problem that has gone on for too long. our aquifers are being depleted faster than they can be filled by natural rain water. We need to build a interstate water recovery system that taps into areas under extreme flooding to the aquifers. It might not salve all the flooding issues but will produce billions of gallons into the aquifers eastern beach. From there, water is extracted to other aquifers until it reaches the rockies. There you have to pipe, pump, and reduce the flow into the Colorado River. To equal the volume of water on an average day, it will take 700 24" pipes pumping 24/7 to equal what Mother Nature sends down the river based on water usage requirements. The desalinization plants produce Potable water and the Rocky water lift program will be used for agricultural usage. 3.) Refill the Great Lake by pumping in seawater via pumping stations, piping, canals, and reducing stations. It will take a massive effort and cost billions to accomplish. 4.) Desalinization plants for Mexico and their potable water needs. Colorado water will still supply their agricultural needs but the plants will supply drinking water. 5.) More plants to replenish California's water problems. 6.) The energy needed to build and run such systems. It's going to take us back to mining and burning coal to run such a program. We will need natural gas and oil as well. We will also need energy from Nuclear plants and possibly Geothermal energy. Solar, wind, wave, and the rest of the pie in the sky alternative energy system might one day work but for now we need real BTU energy.
Exactly. Everyone is talking about what seems to be the inevitable what caused it and who caused it. Lets hear how we are going to engineer the desert southwest out of this.
Living in a desert, a place where water does not naturally exist in abundance, is just a dumb idea in the first place. It's an unfortunate reality, apparently, to some people but there will be a mass migration out of the southwest.
@Karl with a K Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink, question? Where are you?"……………….. The Ocean unless, you build desalinization Plants and pipe the water in otherwise, Las Vegas will go dry by 2024.
@Karl with a K actually if you examine the historical weather patterns for the past 1000 years, you will find that this is no drought. The rainfall amounts have corrected from an unusually wet period starting in 1895 and lasting until 1980. They based their river water usage based on the wet period never ending.
@Ziplokk 5 dollars a gallon? Ridiculous. Look up Israel, fresh water Capitol of the world right now in the middle of the desert. Why? Desalination. The technology has come a long way. Check it out. Every one is freaking that the oceans are raising. Pump it out and make fresh water.
The same for me in Pennsylvania, thankfully water is not an issue here either. I do feel bad for the people who live in the West though who need the water. Somebody better think of something soon before that lake turns to sand.
Good Day everyone : If you are interested , as a type of a parallel , Central Australia has been in about 90% drought for about 50 years . It was only just very recently that heavy rain saved the day in Aussie . Maybe their could be some carried over lessons to be learned from Central Aussie to go to Lake Mead .
I grew up on this lake--lived in Henderson---can't even recognize it now---so sad!!! I have flow over it many times over the last few years--have seen it change so much I can't find any points I used to know!!! I had to move from Arkansas to So Cal in 2014---if is so awful!!!! So Cal is also in much trouble---Did the planners not see this coming? they should have-I saw it!!! More and more people moving here and subdivisions being named Lake -something---you can't do that in the desert!!! Come on guys--where are the smart people? You can fix this!!!
1) It's very expensive 2) It takes a lot of energy to do this. 3) The amount of waste (Brine) that would be released back would mess up the local marine life.
The farms of the southwest provide tremendous food production. If you bring water to the desert stuff grows like mad. They’re not going to shut the farms down. They’ll cut back on water for municipal needs, not agriculture. Agriculture already takes the lion’s share.
There is absolutely nothing similar about the Salton Sea and Lake Mead. The Salton Sea sits in a basin that is more than 200 feet below sea level. The basin flooded in the early 1900s when an irrigation canal breached and gushed water for 2 years. The lake has been shrinking ever since. Irrigation runoff has kept it from drying up completely. The runoff adds salt to the basin and with no outflow the salt continues to increase in concentration as the water evaporates.
Tier 3 shortage, when 1038 feet will be reached by July 2023 (@4:17)? Hey, it is already ay 1040 feet. The level drops a foot a week. How did you do your math? It is 5 August 2022, as I write this. My calculations show that Tier three should cut in about 20 August 2022.
sooo, there is a date for the calculation to be done, and based on that date the teir 3 shortage will be declared. I think the date is late august or so. It's possible between now and then rain will occur to get it right over that level. (which will allow California to do nothing)
Monsoon flooding has been underway and the lake is rising currently. There are multiple flood warnings in the area again today. Overall the 20th century was the wettest period in the West in the last 7000 years based on the geological record. The reality is that the west is extremely dry and what they call a megadrought is actually a common event there. There have been multiple ones that lasted over 200 years in the last 1200-1400 years.
I've been saying since since I was a teenager so for 40+ years there needs to be desalination stations off the coast of California Oregon Washington and Texas that can pump water all the way to the states that need it like Nevada Arizona New Mexico or to California Oregon Washington Idaho Colorado. Just think how nice that would be now, not having to rely solely on rain and snow pack.
@@gregjo5141 "You have better ideas I imagine So what are they?" As others point out, perhaps with less detail than is needed, what you need is to jump-start the hydrologic cycle. Much or most of the evaporation in the Great Basic rains out right back into the Great Basin, but not in the same place. So all of these dry lake beds in Nevada were once actual lakes; and their evaporation is taken by the "prevailing westerlies" blowing east-northeast over the Great Basin, dumping rain along the many north-south mountain ranges but a big one is right down through the middle of Utah. Where it rains out is mostly into the Sevier river and that flows into the Sevier mostly-dry lake bed, irrigating farms along the way. More to the north, the rain falls on the Unita Mountains and finds its way via Provo River or Bear River to the Great Salt Lake; along the way irrigating farms. So pumping sea water into the western Nevada dry lake beds will cause solar distillation, leaving the salt and minerals which can be harvested, and the fresh water distilled by sun and wind rains out in Nevada and Utah. I have not considered how much is recycled
It's horrible but it's not just Lake Meade. Lake Meade is typical of what is happening all around the planet as abrupt exponential climate change accelerates at an alarming rate. People don't understand the implications of losing fresh water supplies. We die without water and we die without food...both are being destroyed by human caused climate change, which in turn is driven by greed and the general disconnection from soul and Nature that is endemic in the world today. Within 3-5 years there won't be another human being on Earth. Yes...it is happening that fast now. Pay attention. Get your affairs in order. Stay close to your loved ones. Time for homo sapiens is running short. Lake Meade is but 1 of many symptoms and signs that we are going extinct.
Human-caused climate change is a joke. Climates have been changing as long as there has been an earth. Outer space is getting warmer, which itself can disprove the Big Bang. I dont think people had anything to do with that.
I don't claim to know the answer but generally, more people = more problems. As for me, its very sad to see these lakes so low. and others like the Blue Mesa Resevoir in Gunnison, Co. go from a beautiful lake to a river.
Don't ever forget that everything taken by force has its ramifications. The creator never forgot that this evil construction which cost the displacement of the indigenous people for profit only will cease to exist. The world will continue to go on, those that have to be displaced so be it, if prices of everything related to it go up so be it, if things get abandoned, ruined, and turns into a sore eye for the tourist economy, all you have to blame are those that everything they touch for profit gets destroyed.
Throughout the history of the earth lakes have come and gone in some cases salt flats have been formed. A man made lake is no match for mother nature...
It may seem like a wild idea and most improbable. I spoke with representatives of a US Senator some years ago and pointed out an historic event that took place in the 1970's. Not here, but in Australia. It was named the Snowy Mountain Scheme. Australia has one mountain range that gathers a large amount of snow in winter there. It's located at the south east corner of the continent. Prior to the scheme, half of the melting run off each spring, ran into the ocean. The government went all out to bore tunnels through the mountains, run catch basins with pipe lines and pumps and reclaimed a large portion of the run off that was previously lost. In the US, the Missouri and Mississippi river run water into the Gulf of Mexico, carrying millions of tons of top soil. The course of the river floods low lying farm lands of as many as a dozen states. If Australia could do something of this magnitude in the 1970s, I would think that we have a much better handle on such a feat today. Of course it would cost money and time. But think of the jobs it would create and the ultimate benefit. It would last generations and help so many people. The government could make the initial investment, but offer private enterprise a stake also.
Well the main problem would actually be the fact that the states are allocated significantly more water than which even flows through the Colorado River
1. Those giant tunnel drills for building roads can be used to build underground water tanks around freeway system to conserve water against evaporation. 2. Vertical farming technologies near suburban can save 90% farming water for farming industry. 3. Framers markets pre-packaging for shipments go online can save residents expensive trips for foods.
Let me Educate everyone here! LAKE MEAD WAS MAN MADE IN 1935!! I REPEAT MAN MADE The lake and surrounding area was named Boulder Dam Recreation Area. The dam was built from 1931-1936 and was officially dedicated Sept. 30, 1935. February 1935 the Lake began to fill to 708.70 feet, The surface of Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir, now stands at 1,045 feet above sea level. It's forecast to drop more than 26 feet by July 2023. THATS BECAUSE ITS A MAN MADE DAM!!!! Just LIKE MAN MADE RIVERS AND LAKE LOCATIONS BUILT THEY ONLY RUN FOR SO LONG! Sometimes I feel Humanity is Slower in Education and common Since. The Earth is covered by About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. Meaning the World is covered by 3/4 of Water!!! In reality, the world won't run out of water. Water does not leave Earth, nor does it come from space. The amount of water the world has is the same amount of water we've always had. However, we could run out of usable water, or at least see a drop to very low reserves.
England. Blimey a Yank who has got it right. Global warming is NOT man made. We are living in a cool period where the average temp. is roughly 2.5 C less than the norm around 10,000 to 2000 years ago since then ice cores show it has dropped. At least those done by non greenies have. Now they are rising back to 'the good old days'. Money wasted on CO2 reduction should be spent on preparing for higher temps. It WILL happen - God help us.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
thats not very nice , even tho you're right about people being wrong about thinking they can enslave nature then be greedy and wasteful , theres stiill a lotta people will suffer through that reclamation
@@cjay2 you obviously don't know what you're talking about. You do realize over half the world's population lives in a desert right? The water situation has NOTHING to do with people living in the desert. It has EVERYTHING to do with growing the nation's crops that cannot grow when you are all frozen in. But we should absolutely stop growing the nation's produce. Then the water problem goes away. After all you can import your food from China.
I have the simple solution that will increase Lake Mead's life...Build that same underground tunnel to the coast of California and build a desalination plant to pump that treated seawater into the lake. Problem solved and I'm no engineer or politician.
It's not a climate change crisis. It's normal. Takeaways In any given year between 1895 and 2010, on average, around 14 percent of the U.S. experienced severe to extreme (D2-D3) drought. The three longest drought episodes in the U.S. occurred in the 1930s, the 1950s, and the early 21st century. The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s remains the benchmark drought and extreme heat event in the U.S. historical record.
Nestle, not Hershey. Nestle is a worldwide French Conglomerate that makes everything and is very evil. Hershey mostly makes chocolate and has a cool amusement park in PA.
well I'm unsure how to shore it up short term, water cuts I suppose. But build more nuclear power plants out west and use them to also purify sea water and pipe it internally. We shouldn't be thinking on how to remove the pleasantries the populace of that area lives, but working on creating more. I'm not a resident, but outlawing pools seems lazy.
Be prepared to pay the price for that. My city has a 70 mile built over twenty years ago pipeline and every household pays a minimum $75.00 loan service fee for decades on top of their water bill to pay for that 70 mile pipeline loan. How far are you pumping this water?
The original plan in 1935 called for multiple dams on the Colorado River about every 100 miles. It would duplicate the system that natural conditions that existed ten thousand years ago. There is no better way to store energy or any cheaper way to convert it than dams and turbines. Iguana
The wealthiest country in the world can't solve this problem? How about building desalination plants, pipelines from areas that get more rainfall? It's because the billionaires that run the country (and the world for that matter) don't want to pay for it. These people have more money than they could ever spend in several lifetimes but don't want to do anything to help others.
Not just the wealthiest nation... but the state with the largest economy can't even get it right. It's just about the rich getting richer and not caring about tomorrow. Uncontrolled population growth through migration (compared to other states) means more state representatives in congress. More electoral votes, and a bigger piece of then federal pie... some of the politicians and those working for them aren't that dumb... but they are that selfish. I certainly don't see a single golf course being permanently closed, or a anyone's pool being declared illegal due to its affect on the environment 🤔
They sliced a huge hole in the bottom of the lake a while ago. What did they think was going to happen with that hole at th bottom 26 feet in diameter.
Its cloud formation 101 folks. Rain clouds form from water molecules clinging to NATURALLY occurring dust particles in the atmosphere. If you continually inject metal oxides into the atmosphere it will dilute the ability of water molecules to mass in such a volume as to form a raincloud and fall as rain. Been to Vegas much in the last 15 years? That entire region of the desert southeast is one of the worst places in the country for "geo-engineering" it looks like the KC-135's from Nellis AFB are playing tic tac toe over the desert. They are relentless. The sad part is there is now a whole generation of useful idiot millennials that have grown up knowing nothing but this and think that it's normal aircraft contrails. Time to wake up folks. If people had their eyes open they would be talking about the effects of "Geo-engineering", aka "stratospheric aerosol injection", aka CHEMTRAILS on the lack of rainfall in the desert southwest. But nope. The dumbed down masses think they can google Chemtrails and get the truth, failing to realize that googles algos are geared to steer us not to the truth, but to whatever narrative is being sold to the population, world wide, and because the word chemtrails is associated with the TRUTH about geo-engineering, googles algos seek to discredit it and call it a "conspiracy theory". Try it. try googling Chemtrails, and then in a separate tab google the 'politically correct' term Geoengineering and compare the differences in the links google gives you. Completely different, but they are the same damned thing!
I bet people that loved to swim in this lake will be cured of this after all the nastiness they have found lately,my motto when swimming has always been," if i cant see the bottom I'm not getting in" lol
What do you think of the lakes drying up?
There's always Crystal Springs or Perrier !
Las Vegas can afford it....
Big cities and humans shouldn't attempt to live in deserts with no resources. I hope they find all the missing people and clean all that trash out.
Well, as an engineer, I do not see the lake drying up. I was able to get a schematic of the dam. As the out flow diminishes, the lake water will become more deteriorated. It has already started. 895 foot level is complete dead pool. We are at 1040 at this time. According to my diagrams the same tubes that feeds the generators are also the lake bypass to down stream. I can see a reduction of water pressure to the generators. This dam was not built to handle low lake level. I was told there is a bypass tube at 800 ft. If so it does not show on my diagrams.
A desert is a desert regardless of how it’s altered by humans. Lake Mead issue is alarming to me personally but I don’t think Arizona officials are anywhere near as alarmed/concerned as they should be. The reason I say that is because I am aware that Vegas has over 50 golf courses and Arizona is still allowing them to be watered to my knowledge. That’s kinda hard to wrap my mind around.
Here's the problem that you forgot something about it you know that every year that of forest fire that an in California but sometimes out of that California of the take that heat right there over the biggest ones forest fire in history record breaking but sometimes that are that well people cannot concentrated that about to have a job or they cannot do this or not to mention that I ever who is responsibility but the problem is that that selfish greedy politicians excuses blaming or somebody else's right there just like a how to say this people just forgot about it about to save the environment to stop going and to stop over using like a well electricity power for the cable line to connect it from houses for apartments but someday that are of a that cable will be disconnected and going to be replaced by solar power energy from the Sun is not to mention everyone emergency is that a battery and a free energy from your own apartment and even houses that's the truth
It's annoying that the state that uses that most water doesn't have to cut their water usage. I live in Arizona and our complex has fake grass and natural landscaping. There are some really nice fake grass options that a lot of these people need to invest in. It should be mandatory that if you live in the desert you use minimal amounts of water.
You see this because you are intelligent. They aren't . If they had concentrated on infrastructure FIRST then started building shopping malls and subdivisions there wouldn't be a problem. It would also be a big help if the ones in charge of water usage "rules" weren't the same ones with Olympic size swimming pools and 2 acre lawns with automatic sprinkler systems....
As Arizonan, I 100% aflgree with you. Any states including NV, parts of CA, UT, all grass yards must be illegal.
And who's bright idea was it to start farming in the desert?
Super retarded.
Most of our agriculture comes from CA.
@@navgirljen Well fruit yes. If the water was used mostly for watering farms it would be different but lets be honest a ton is used for wants not needs.
@@navgirljen Then the people in charge should institute water usage guidelines that prioritize water usage for human consumption and cleanliness instead of swimming pools and lush green lawns. If you have to choose between eating, drinking, swimming and pretty green grass, what do you choose? That's easy for me.
South America , Chile in particular, provides a lot of various fruits and vegetables where I live . But there may be more to some of this than meets the eye. Why are some of the richest Globalists on this planet buying up farmland now ? With one problem after the other, the public is being bombarded with inflation, restrictions , mandates and empty shelves in stores.....
I love it that the dude says mother nature is gonna have to come to the rescue. Dude, Momma nature is already here. She has come to reclaim what you ass holes built over her canyon. She is pissed and wants it back
Yes, Exactly!!!
Yep, well said,she has her own agenda and always will even though some people think they can control it and "help her"
Don’t forget Father Time too. Anything Mother Nature can’t fix, Father Time will change.
I would not make any investment in LV real estate. Going the way of Chaco cyn.
Mother Nature bats last.
Do you mean what happens if the "historic drought" turns the desert into a desert?
...and, lets not forget all those 100s of golf courses in the desert!
well yes... shouldn't they all own a swimming pool and a fruit orchard
It was a desert until it became Las Vegas basically you're going to lose your money your life and now we're going to lose one of my most precious metals water if we don't start doing some major overhaul with water usage
@@luvvinlovelock7254 oh dry up wont you
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California desperately needs to start pulling their weight. Nevada & Arizona can’t keep shouldering this burden. I lived in The LA area for 2 years (2011-2013) and saw, first hand, how wasteful Californians are with water and complain bloody murder when they have to conserve. Nevada’s been doing it for decades.
Like the millions of gallons they just dump to the ocean in the attempts to SAVE a freakin' minnow? Drastically lowering reservoir levels during a so-called drought? Just ask Cal. farmers in the valley how much California cares about you.... They took away most or all of their water too!!
L.A. has been getting its water from both the Owen’s Valley (watch the movie “Chinatown”) and from No. California for decades. For the most part, No. Californians are good at conserving water. We, too, are tired of having water taken via an aqueduct that was sold by politicians in So. CA (where the bulk of the State’s wealthy live) supposedly as water for “agriculture.” In fact, a large portion of that water is used for the wealthy in L.A., mainly golf courses and swimming pools. The damage to No. CA has been great, and that is one reason you will periodically hear the rumblings of folks, particularly those in the Northern most counties of CA, who want to split up this huge State. As for AZ, they have plenty of golf courses and swimming pools, and developers continue to build homes by the thousands there. AZ is in for a huge surprise re: water…which they won’t have enough of!
Ohno. Mesa tink of somting.
California should be emptied out of the leeches living there, welfare recipients, homeless druggies, mentally ills who WON'T take their meds, dead beat parents, and any rioter. That's what ruined Cali.
yeah, but we've gotten a good start on reform- we got rid of you
Nature never intended a lake to be in a desert like this.
Amen
I do believe in manmade climate change. But manmade stupidity wins every time. I think LA had around 10,000 people before Mulholland. The only crop was wheat. The future doesn't look good. And the most comical part is the population in those areas is still growing like crazy. The migration won't be from Mexico anymore.
And it is on its way out.
Nature never intended water to rotate massive generators at 20,000rpm at the bottom of a massive dam either. But it does. I don't see any problem with a lake in the desert. The problem is millions of homes having grass and officials not outlawing it until 20 years into a 20 year drought.
@@mboyer68 so unnatural dam is fine, yet unnatural grass is not? 🤔
Just looking at the colorado river compact, it's not a surprise, they actually divided the water that could be used but the total was more than what the river actually had, it had to cause problem at some point.
I was thinking this too but what if there aren't any alternative water sources for them to use? It's common sense that the desert has little water so you would think the authorities would get a better handle on the situation before that lake dries up completely. Perhaps they simply don't know what to do about it? IDK.
The Colorado river has been in a crisis for decades, yet they still keep building massive urban centers like Vegas. The story says Vegas gets ninety percent of its water from Lake Mead. This is simply insane to keep building, thus creating the need for more and more water. I lived in Vegas for a few years. I can't say I liked it much.
Vegas only uses 2% approximately of the water rights, plus most is recycled.
Don't blame Vegas. Blame ARIZONA and LA
I live in Vegas and I don't like it much for a few reasons, but it must be said that it does manage to use a very small percentage of water compared to LA and Phoenix. Everything is xeroscaped here and there are strict watering schedules year round.
Vegas recycles virtually all water that goes into the sewer system (is used indoors). California is farming in the desert, which is insane!
@@backcountyrpilot That good to hear. Let's hope the Vegas urban planners are really smart. It's a massive gamble.
In order for the almost continuous drop in water levels over the past 22 years to reverse itself, either all the entities with straws in the river will need to suck less, or there will need to be more snow in the Rockies. Seems like every year the people who make the flow rate predictions are very, very , very optimistic about snow melt. Every year. Cockeyed optimistic. For 22 years. Think on that.
Even a spring with average snowmelt will still cause a shrinkage in the water level due to the ground at the tributaries being bone dry. Even if there was a normal snowpack and snowmelt the water would have to seep into the ground and moisten it before any water started to stream into reservoirs. This will mean very little water actually reaches the reservoirs.
To stop this downward spiral in water levels we would have to have many winters that have not been seen in decades. When there is a prolonged doubt we can't reasonably expect that to happen. So, unfortunately this will get much much worse.
22 years is not a drought, it's a catastrophe and everyone is just turning a blind eye to it until they can't anymore and when that happens it's going to be chaos and mayhem and every person for themselves.
His mention @ Videos end of the World 🌎 Economic Forum,,,, says it all.
Their plan is definitely falling in place.
The beginning of birth pains… !
Most would focus on the nature aspects of this.. But
Lack of conservation tactics and planned developments show the only ones in the reality of it are the residents….. Meanwhile The leaders (powers that b ) are heavily pressing things in a destructive pattern……
Same as with Many other national issues…
Beginning of the end.
@@doright7098 Check yourself for head injury, bud.
There are covers for pools that prevent almost all evaporation. They're also an excellent form of storage for a safe source of water and for fire protection.
Yes I have one on our pool. And our son's company make them, Cover Pools, Inc.
Give this thought. What was once grown in Midwest is now grown in irrigated desert. The farms that were once in Midwest are now just not used. Plenty of water there. What happened? The irrigated cities and communities grew and each person needs water.
Those that raise cattle in southwest are told how many any they can have per acre because of water and food for them.
The same calculations can be used when it comes to how many humans can occupy.
It is more consumption than it is climate change.
Those huge Indian Pueblos that were deserted centuries ago were not in a dry climate when they were built. They were deserted because of natural climate change.
Exactly! A voice of reason for once!
and with millions of migrants crossing our borders this country will go broke from water to medical and food to all...but not our own americans...
Thoughts and prayers for all the people who thought it was a good idea to build a bunch of cities and farms in the desert.
Your comment sort of reminds me of those in New Orleans who chose to build neighborhoods below sea level in an area that has a history of devastating hurricane floods.
Don’t forget the almond and pistachio industry. That is one of the most water usage crops
not to mention cotton
@@jds1275 cotton is nowhere near as much of a water expensive crop. It’s still one of the most reliable cash crop
I heart almonds
And Saudi Arabian alfalfa.
@@Plarndude yeah. Alfalfa is a thirsty crop
I’m not sure why Phoenix, where I live, is allowed to continue growing like it has. It should be a fairly small desert town, not a massive city
It was, once. First time I went through in the early 70s, it was a small desert town trying to 'grow'.
Am I wrong in saying this you want Phoenix, Arizona to be like Yuma Arizona or some other small city in the desert?
Don't be so vain; stop watering your lawns. Plant desert plants instead of tropical ones.
HOA's still requiring green grass in AZ 😡
While I agree, that is going to do very little to solve the problem.
Thing IS people move into the desert but want green grass, a lot of unnecessary irrigation waste in AZ.
Well over 90% of water is used by farms. Educate yourself.
Why is it everyone always delights in insulting other people, all I said was people move into the desert and HOA'S still require green grass. Doesn't matter how much or how little it will help. Any little bit of conservation is better than none and HOA'S should not require green grass in desert living. Just opinion and that other person and I am entitled to it as much as your opinion that it won't help much but I'm still not going to personally insult you for having an opinion. NV is on water conservation, CA and AZ aren't but should be, again, just my opinion. You have a wonderful day.
Am I the only one old enough to remember when it looked like Glen Canyon dam might get topped and they were using the emergency spillway at Hoover Dam?
My prediction is the drought continue until it ends. They always do.
Rainman
Farming in the desert? What genius came up with that idea?
For real lmfao they need to limit who can breed in this country. To many morons!
The soviets raised cotton in the Kazakhstan desert
@@stratos3777 well that explains it!
@@thegreenbird795 Israel used to be a desert, and now they're growing everything, and exporting to many countries
The fact that you're even asking this ridiculous question shows that you know absolutely nothing about agriculture! SMH
I live in the Midwest where my home state borders both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. We got no water shortages here! As if you needed more reasons to not move out west.
Midwest here to. Now they want to.steal our water for desert.dwellers in l.a and vegas. I say to them, not our problem.
@@joshwag9136 These a-holes better not move here either. Stay in that hell hole known as the South West.
Not long ago Superior had dropped in level. As I remember, they do not know why this fluctuation occurs or predict when it will happen. Last I heard, levels have rebounded but since unpredictable, we are never out of the woods. The biggest implications of low lake levels are bulk carrier ships sometimes have to carry less than a full load.
I live near the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, after pretty high water this spring, we are running a bit low and Minnehaha Creek is just a trickle. These are fluctuations we experience often so the biggest problem is for recreational boaters.
My point is we are rich in water resources, because they are natural and not trying to be sustainable in a desert. Oh, and don’t even think about taking water from here to solve their problem…….
@@mplsmark222 There is a great lakes compact to protect them from others trying to take the water from the great lakes. I live on the shores of Lake Michigan.
go shovel the walk for the mailman
Mankind since the dawn of time:
We have a problem we identified. Just keep doing what you’re doing.
"Fuck you, I got mine"
Officials waited WAY TOO LONG before they forced homeowners to remove grass. The drought has been going on for 20 years and they just did this recently. 20 years! They should've banned grass 10 years ago. Too little too late. Imagine if the southwest loses it's water. Property values zero, millions on the move. Property values in nearby water sufficient areas will double. What were they thinking? Grass? In a dessert? Brilliant.
clark county boat exchange-
You are right. They just turned a blind eye to what was happening.
Palm trees. They were thinking palm trees
Residential use of the water is a drop in the bucket compared to agriculture use. Agriculture uses roughly 79% of all the water in Colorado River Basin.
Massive conservation efforts should exist in the cities, but let's be realistic here. Even if that happened it would do very very little to the water levels.
You can't completely blame the cities and let the agriculture industry off the hook.
The biggest changes need to come from the use of water for agriculture. Yes, this will cause farmers to loose their livelihoods, but unfortunately most of the economic growth and development is in the cities.
Blaming other people and ignoring the actual problem is going to get you nowhere.
But hey, in sure there is some slimy corrupt politician who will get reelected if we keep preaching this nonsense.
So what? They move to a desert, this is what happens. Suck it up.
I don't live in Arizona, Nevada or California , But my state is also in the midst of a bad drought, I feel like this very important issue and is very scary. It really makes me wonder what we're leaving our children.
quit having children = problem solved
Don't worry, this is just cyclical - happens throughout history. We can adjust.
Remember the whole country relies on food that comes from the west.
@@klaaturivera3746 been that way since forever
It's not really up to humans to change climate it's up to humans to adapt to the changes in climate. The climate has always changed this is nothing new
Just imagine if the Oceans started losing water when we expected coastal areas to flood.
They won’t flood…….the rich are still buying ocean front properties, when that stops, I MIGHT believe them about this Global Warming BS.
Makes me appreciate living in Vancouver where there is no shortage of water
No mention of California taking much more than their share of water allotment for years. While Arizona and Nevada conserve water, California wastes water. Case in point, desalinization of the Sultan Sea by sending fresh water into it from the Colorado river.
It is time the west coast started building desalination plants in large numbers!
Absolutely!! And recover the gold and platinum from the remediated salts for an economic boost...
need to build some big plants alright
yes- we need more....GROSS POLLUTERS!
@@tommurphy4307 i was thinking walk in oven
Shoulda been on that for decades .
But still not..
Growing vast amounts of crops in areas that can't naturally support them is a bad idea.
Well you live in the desert and there is a reason they call it that. Before they built the dam that was the nature of the area. We try and change nature to fit our needs but mother nature can not be beat.
Israel used to be a desert a 100 yrs ago. Today, they grow everything there, and export many products worldwide.
We had water restrictions here is South Australia. No watering the lawn before 5pm. All houses had to have water tanks etc. The aquifer gets filled with storm water during winter and then reused on market gardens when needed. Though we still have issues with the eastern states taking too much water from the river Murray for irrigation etc leading to the Murray mouth in South Australia to close up, also making the salt level increase in the river.
so has the restrictions worked?????
The large showy water-features at the various ritzy casinos are using nonpotable saline water from beneath the city. Most of the river water is used to grow crops in AZ and S CA
I just love how everyone in Government thinks the solution is conservation. Conservation will be necessary however, it's just a drop in the bucket. Mother Nature is telling us that this is not a drought. The climate conditions these days are actually normal for the region. What we have seen in the near past was a spike in unusually wet period. The Government and States (And Mexico) based their usage numbers on faulty data. They are just now figuring it out? They knew about this #0 years ago and did nothing about it. They did what was politically expedient instead of what needed to be done. Now they can no longer kick the can down the road and are scrabbling to blame some else for this catastrophe. They obvious is "Climate Change". Regardless which side of the isle you stand concerning the political issue, the reality is that even if it was due to man's release of carbon into the atmosphere, they knew about this long enough ago to mitigate the issue to address Colorado water usage. They could have limited City growth along with industrial water consumption. They could have slowed down agricultural water needs long before the system was at its breaking point. To date, all I have heard is what the problem is and who is to blame. I hear very little concerning real fixes to the problem. So what are our options? 1.) construct a canal from the Gulf of California in Mexico all the way to the Sultan Sea. It solves California's environmental disaster from the Sultan Sea drying up releasing tons to toxic material. It also will provide the wetlands that are in jeopardy from perishing. It also stabilizes the Sultan Sea's salinity, pH, turbidity, temperature, viscosity, and evaporation levels. Once filled a massive construction project will take place to build desalinization plants close to the Sultan Sea. This will be the inlet to the plant system. Desalinization is a costly endeavor however, if the Federal Government were to fund such a project, they would see billions in return from the extra farmland growth and taxes generated. Fresh water would incise further industry to the SouthWest. All of this would bring in millions into new homes and communities as long as they have the water. If not then we will see a mass migration to the East like no other. Home prices will not crash but simply disappear as nobody wants their water turned on for 3 days out of the week for a few hours. Having to fill bathtubs for drinking water. Jail-time and hearty fines for violations. Business packing it up and moving away. We have until 2024 and that's it. We are at Deadpool in Lake Mead. That date is a prediction from mathematic evaluations from Lake Powell and its inability to send water down the river in 14 months. Nothing can stop what's about to happen but we can get busy now to build the canals and plants along with the pipes that will carry the water to all of the cities. 2.) Move water from the East to the West by way of aquifers. It filled up a water shortage problem that has gone on for too long. our aquifers are being depleted faster than they can be filled by natural rain water. We need to build a interstate water recovery system that taps into areas under extreme flooding to the aquifers. It might not salve all the flooding issues but will produce billions of gallons into the aquifers eastern beach. From there, water is extracted to other aquifers until it reaches the rockies. There you have to pipe, pump, and reduce the flow into the Colorado River. To equal the volume of water on an average day, it will take 700 24" pipes pumping 24/7 to equal what Mother Nature sends down the river based on water usage requirements. The desalinization plants produce Potable water and the Rocky water lift program will be used for agricultural usage. 3.) Refill the Great Lake by pumping in seawater via pumping stations, piping, canals, and reducing stations. It will take a massive effort and cost billions to accomplish. 4.) Desalinization plants for Mexico and their potable water needs. Colorado water will still supply their agricultural needs but the plants will supply drinking water. 5.) More plants to replenish California's water problems. 6.) The energy needed to build and run such systems. It's going to take us back to mining and burning coal to run such a program. We will need natural gas and oil as well. We will also need energy from Nuclear plants and possibly Geothermal energy. Solar, wind, wave, and the rest of the pie in the sky alternative energy system might one day work but for now we need real BTU energy.
Exactly. Everyone is talking about what seems to be the inevitable what caused it and who caused it. Lets hear how we are going to engineer the desert southwest out of this.
Living in a desert, a place where water does not naturally exist in abundance, is just a dumb idea in the first place. It's an unfortunate reality, apparently, to some people but there will be a mass migration out of the southwest.
@@Theman3806 Without infrastructure such as long-term water supplies, you’re absolutely correct.
@Karl with a K Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink, question? Where are you?"……………….. The Ocean unless, you build desalinization Plants and pipe the water in otherwise, Las Vegas will go dry by 2024.
@Karl with a K actually if you examine the historical weather patterns for the past 1000 years, you will find that this is no drought. The rainfall amounts have corrected from an unusually wet period starting in 1895 and lasting until 1980. They based their river water usage based on the wet period never ending.
What do they do on other countries??.Desalination may be the only technology/solution available.
@Ziplokk 5 dollars a gallon? Ridiculous. Look up Israel, fresh water Capitol of the world right now in the middle of the desert. Why? Desalination. The technology has come a long way. Check it out. Every one is freaking that the oceans are raising. Pump it out and make fresh water.
I live in Colorado and it's ridiculous how much folks waste. I try my best to conserve but I'm a single household. 🤷🏾
I'm glad I live in Maryland, where I'm surrounded by mountains, forest, and rivers.
give em time , the spoilers will be there soon too
The same for me in Pennsylvania, thankfully water is not an issue here either. I do feel bad for the people who live in the West though who need the water. Somebody better think of something soon before that lake turns to sand.
@@geocam2 fuck em! My home is paid off, and there's a reason we don't have homeless camps everywhere. We have some brutally cold winters.
@ 4:00 is it supposed to be New Mexico?
Good Day everyone : If you are interested , as a type of a parallel , Central Australia has been in about 90% drought for about 50 years . It was only just very recently that heavy rain saved the day in Aussie . Maybe their could be some carried over lessons to be learned from Central Aussie to go to Lake Mead .
John-oh boy issah English Teacher. Kangaroo hommie, tis ah dessert desert, me sinks.
sorry- tucked in a bit o' me scarf...
Not a word about what feeds the lake and what the prognosis or remedy is.
Water's been taken away for lake Vegas
how hard is to remove salt from ocean water ?
How hard is it to stop building golf courses? or, just stop watering them altogether ?
Extremely hard, very costly and energy intensive.
I grew up on this lake--lived in Henderson---can't even recognize it now---so sad!!! I have flow over it many times over the last few years--have seen it change so much I can't find any points I used to know!!! I had to move from Arkansas to So Cal in 2014---if is so awful!!!! So Cal is also in much trouble---Did the planners not see this coming? they should have-I saw it!!! More and more people moving here and subdivisions being named Lake -something---you can't do that in the desert!!! Come on guys--where are the smart people? You can fix this!!!
@Karl with a K how so?
@Karl with a K "there's plenty of water"? where?
Question: with all technologies today, why is it not possible for ocean water to be de salted and diverted to reserve areas such as Lake Mead?
Exactly & the say California uses lake Mead water but Cali sits on the ocean
1) It's very expensive
2) It takes a lot of energy to do this.
3) The amount of waste (Brine) that would be released back would mess up the local marine life.
The Sunbelters will eventually migrate back to the Rustbelt of the Great Lakes region, which holds about 20% of the Earth's fresh water.
On the bright side, if Lake Mead dries up, there won't be a Battle for Hoover Dam in the post-apocalyptic future
Who’s going to turn those massive turbines making electricity ⚡️
@@steveo5763 me
The farms of the southwest provide tremendous food production. If you bring water to the desert stuff grows like mad. They’re not going to shut the farms down. They’ll cut back on water for municipal needs, not agriculture. Agriculture already takes the lion’s share.
They want a cushy life sacrifices need to made that means MOVING or stop producing beef.
There is absolutely nothing similar about the Salton Sea and Lake Mead. The Salton Sea sits in a basin that is more than 200 feet below sea level. The basin flooded in the early 1900s when an irrigation canal breached and gushed water for 2 years. The lake has been shrinking ever since. Irrigation runoff has kept it from drying up completely. The runoff adds salt to the basin and with no outflow the salt continues to increase in concentration as the water evaporates.
Yet all the rich ass people in crystal cove and Newport coast run their sprinklers even on rainy days in cali
9:00 NOT will, but has ALREADY! Beef used to be a staple, now it's barely affordable for most Americans. 🤦🏻♂️ The future is now...
Tier 3 shortage, when 1038 feet will be reached by July 2023 (@4:17)? Hey, it is already ay 1040 feet. The level drops a foot a week. How did you do your math? It is 5 August 2022, as I write this. My calculations show that Tier three should cut in about 20 August 2022.
sooo, there is a date for the calculation to be done, and based on that date the teir 3 shortage will be declared. I think the date is late august or so. It's possible between now and then rain will occur to get it right over that level. (which will allow California to do nothing)
Monsoon flooding has been underway and the lake is rising currently. There are multiple flood warnings in the area again today. Overall the 20th century was the wettest period in the West in the last 7000 years based on the geological record. The reality is that the west is extremely dry and what they call a megadrought is actually a common event there. There have been multiple ones that lasted over 200 years in the last 1200-1400 years.
The level is coming back up. Looks good.
As a rain and cold loving person , I would just wilt away in Nevada .
i hear it's warm & dry in English class....
@FACT VS FICTION The wisdom you display is just earthshaking !
@@tommurphy4307 quel imbecile !
I think it’s more relevant to say “when” it dries up
I've been saying since since I was a teenager so for 40+ years there needs to be desalination stations off the coast of California Oregon Washington and Texas that can pump water all the way to the states that need it like Nevada Arizona New Mexico or to California Oregon Washington Idaho Colorado. Just think how nice that would be now, not having to rely solely on rain and snow pack.
Or just pump seawater to the Great Basin and let sunlight do the desalination.
well... apparently you haven't had a thought during your 40+ years on (how much energy it actually takes to distill water)
@@madestonian1232
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A lot less than you would think especially with the technology we have today 🤣
You have better ideas I imagine
So what are they?
@@thomasmaughan4798
I'm not sure if that would work but it's something that definitely needs to be looked into.
@@gregjo5141 "You have better ideas I imagine
So what are they?"
As others point out, perhaps with less detail than is needed, what you need is to jump-start the hydrologic cycle. Much or most of the evaporation in the Great Basic rains out right back into the Great Basin, but not in the same place. So all of these dry lake beds in Nevada were once actual lakes; and their evaporation is taken by the "prevailing westerlies" blowing east-northeast over the Great Basin, dumping rain along the many north-south mountain ranges but a big one is right down through the middle of Utah. Where it rains out is mostly into the Sevier river and that flows into the Sevier mostly-dry lake bed, irrigating farms along the way. More to the north, the rain falls on the Unita Mountains and finds its way via Provo River or Bear River to the Great Salt Lake; along the way irrigating farms.
So pumping sea water into the western Nevada dry lake beds will cause solar distillation, leaving the salt and minerals which can be harvested, and the fresh water distilled by sun and wind rains out in Nevada and Utah. I have not considered how much is recycled
Can’t imagine a day without water.
Maybe Jimmy Hoffa will finally turn up once the lake is gone. 😂😂😂
Comment of the day!
He's in the oil fields in NY
It's horrible but it's not just Lake Meade. Lake Meade is typical of what is happening all around the planet as abrupt exponential climate change accelerates at an alarming rate. People don't understand the implications of losing fresh water supplies. We die without water and we die without food...both are being destroyed by human caused climate change, which in turn is driven by greed and the general disconnection from soul and Nature that is endemic in the world today. Within 3-5 years there won't be another human being on Earth. Yes...it is happening that fast now. Pay attention. Get your affairs in order. Stay close to your loved ones. Time for homo sapiens is running short. Lake Meade is but 1 of many symptoms and signs that we are going extinct.
We're fine here by the Great Lakes
Go smoke another one, dude!
Human-caused climate change is a joke. Climates have been changing as long as there has been an earth. Outer space is getting warmer, which itself can disprove the Big Bang. I dont think people had anything to do with that.
Since I live in Missouri, I'm donating one 16 ounce bottle of distilled water to help out. You know what they say; Every little bit helps.
lol they will demand the Mississippi river next :)
Theyll move out here and suck our water dry to o.
It's a matter of electrical generation v. water for drinking. Which do you think will win?
I don't claim to know the answer but generally, more people = more problems. As for me, its very sad to see these lakes so low. and others like the Blue Mesa Resevoir in Gunnison, Co. go from a beautiful lake to a river.
Irrigation would fix a lot of problems.
Sad that they won't use the ocean with filters to replace the water levels on the lake
Don't ever forget that everything taken by force has its ramifications. The creator never forgot that this evil construction which cost the displacement of the indigenous people for profit only will cease to exist. The world will continue to go on, those that have to be displaced so be it, if prices of everything related to it go up so be it, if things get abandoned, ruined, and turns into a sore eye for the tourist economy, all you have to blame are those that everything they touch for profit gets destroyed.
I absolutely believe this to my core.
You have a limited resource and usage is exceeding supply. Solution is simple, in the UK we turn the water off for 23 hours a day when its that bad.
We Americans are way too spoiled to do that😂🤣
is THAT what that smell is?
@@tommurphy4307 Being a little smelly is better than being too weak to do what needs to be done.
Yeah, but the rich don't have their water turned off.
Throughout the history of the earth lakes have come and gone in some cases salt flats have been formed. A man made lake is no match for mother nature...
When the water stops you do not want to be in ANY city that is out of aqua..We are living in interesting times!!!
There was a highway to heaven episode about what’s happening now, back in 1985.
It may seem like a wild idea and most improbable. I spoke with representatives of a US Senator some years ago and pointed out an historic event that took place in the 1970's. Not here, but in Australia. It was named the Snowy Mountain Scheme.
Australia has one mountain range that gathers a large amount of snow in winter there. It's located at the south east corner of the continent. Prior to the scheme, half of the melting run off each spring, ran into the ocean.
The government went all out to bore tunnels through the mountains, run catch basins with pipe lines and pumps and reclaimed a large portion of the run off that was previously lost.
In the US, the Missouri and Mississippi river run water into the Gulf of Mexico, carrying millions of tons of top soil. The course of the river floods low lying farm lands of as many as a dozen states.
If Australia could do something of this magnitude in the 1970s, I would think that we have a much better handle on such a feat today. Of course it would cost money and time. But think of the jobs it would create and the ultimate benefit. It would last generations and help so many people. The government could make the initial investment, but offer private enterprise a stake also.
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well stop allowing people to go to the lake and preserve it.
Well the main problem would actually be the fact that the states are allocated significantly more water than which even flows through the Colorado River
1. Those giant tunnel drills for building roads can be used to build underground water tanks around freeway system to conserve water against evaporation. 2. Vertical farming technologies near suburban can save 90% farming water for farming industry. 3. Framers markets pre-packaging for shipments go online can save residents expensive trips for foods.
It's not "drying up" it's being drained on purpose.
Exactly.
by who?
How much is being diverted ?? As well To Las Vegas Lake ???= $$$$$$$$$$$
Let me Educate everyone here! LAKE MEAD WAS MAN MADE IN 1935!! I REPEAT MAN MADE The lake and surrounding area was named Boulder Dam Recreation Area. The dam was built from 1931-1936 and was officially dedicated Sept. 30, 1935. February 1935 the Lake began to fill to 708.70 feet, The surface of Lake Mead, the country's largest reservoir, now stands at 1,045 feet above sea level. It's forecast to drop more than 26 feet by July 2023. THATS BECAUSE ITS A MAN MADE DAM!!!! Just LIKE MAN MADE RIVERS AND LAKE LOCATIONS BUILT THEY ONLY RUN FOR SO LONG! Sometimes I feel Humanity is Slower in Education and common Since. The Earth is covered by About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. Meaning the World is covered by 3/4 of Water!!! In reality, the world won't run out of water. Water does not leave Earth, nor does it come from space. The amount of water the world has is the same amount of water we've always had. However, we could run out of usable water, or at least see a drop to very low reserves.
England. Blimey a Yank who has got it right. Global warming is NOT man made. We are living in a cool period where the average temp. is roughly 2.5 C less than the norm around 10,000 to 2000 years ago since then ice cores show it has dropped. At least those done by non greenies have. Now they are rising back to 'the good old days'. Money wasted on CO2 reduction should be spent on preparing for higher temps. It WILL happen - God help us.
"Sometimes I feel Humanity is Slower in Education and common Since." 😂
Just curious, where is this water going? Are there parts of the world that have more water because lake mead's lost water is raining down on them?
This is very sad! Some one in a high place wants it dry!!!
you mean the guy up in the hoover dam?
Mother Nature
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Duh if it dries up forever, there will be no water anymore.
Thanks for sharing 👍😀
If the lake permanently dries up? I’d be happy the desert reclaimed what always belonged to it and saddened that greed created this.
thats not very nice , even tho you're right about people being wrong about thinking they can enslave nature then be greedy and wasteful , theres stiill a lotta people will suffer through that reclamation
@@bobsaturday4273 So what? You move to a desert, and this is what happens.
@@cjay2 you obviously don't know what you're talking about. You do realize over half the world's population lives in a desert right?
The water situation has NOTHING to do with people living in the desert.
It has EVERYTHING to do with growing the nation's crops that cannot grow when you are all frozen in.
But we should absolutely stop growing the nation's produce. Then the water problem goes away.
After all you can import your food from China.
Nothing is forever.
In 70m years, Las Vegas may be a lush jungle full of lakes and streams.
I have the simple solution that will increase Lake Mead's life...Build that same underground tunnel to the coast of California and build a desalination plant to pump that treated seawater into the lake. Problem solved and I'm no engineer or politician.
Desalination is notorious for churning out waste that's very costly to dispose. Change your way of life!
Wesah americanas iss, ahh, how do i put dis? Greedy. No know plannin' ahead.
Calculating the amount of energy it would take to pump water uphill to Lake Mead. . .
It's not a climate change crisis. It's normal.
Takeaways
In any given year between 1895 and 2010, on average, around 14 percent of the U.S. experienced severe to extreme (D2-D3) drought.
The three longest drought episodes in the U.S. occurred in the 1930s, the 1950s, and the early 21st century.
The Dust Bowl era of the 1930s remains the benchmark drought and extreme heat event in the U.S. historical record.
Hey at least it wasn’t our generation to blame.
What happened to all of that “Cloud Seeding” technology they used to talk about back in the 90’s ? 🤔
Right! They know how to fix it.
You need clouds to seed first
@ 1:39 .....that's an OLD picture because nobody has driven over the dam in years.
I’m sure Hershey has water rights to the lake and all the water ways in the surrounding areas. YAY CAPITALISM!
Nestle, not Hershey. Nestle is a worldwide French Conglomerate that makes everything and is very evil. Hershey mostly makes chocolate and has a cool amusement park in PA.
Nestle dude LMAO Hershey stays in the chocolate business
what about hitchhiking on the hershey highway?
How many swim pools do they fill every year. Makes you wonder.
Can we talk about the history of Lake Mead?? This ghost town of St. Thomas?? Stories will come out once it dries. Bodies too.
there are no ghosts in st. thomas. only one person is known to have died in the flooding.
The " mad max " age is coming
CALAI's been wasting water =DECADES/ Sending it out to SEA & OH =THEM=Golf Coarses Need to stay GREEN < LOL
well I'm unsure how to shore it up short term, water cuts I suppose. But build more nuclear power plants out west and use them to also purify sea water and pipe it internally.
We shouldn't be thinking on how to remove the pleasantries the populace of that area lives, but working on creating more. I'm not a resident, but outlawing pools seems lazy.
Instead of oil pipelines can we get some water pipelines
Be prepared to pay the price for that. My city has a 70 mile built over twenty years ago pipeline and every household pays a minimum $75.00 loan service fee for decades on top of their water bill to pay for that 70 mile pipeline loan. How far are you pumping this water?
The original plan in 1935 called for multiple dams on the Colorado River about every 100 miles. It would duplicate the system that natural conditions that existed ten thousand years ago. There is no better way to store energy or any cheaper way to convert it than dams and turbines.
Iguana
The wealthiest country in the world can't solve this problem? How about building desalination plants, pipelines from areas that get more rainfall? It's because the billionaires that run the country (and the world for that matter) don't want to pay for it. These people have more money than they could ever spend in several lifetimes but don't want to do anything to help others.
Don't move to the desert. Even the late great comedian Sam Kennison knew that.
Not just the wealthiest nation... but the state with the largest economy can't even get it right. It's just about the rich getting richer and not caring about tomorrow. Uncontrolled population growth through migration (compared to other states) means more state representatives in congress. More electoral votes, and a bigger piece of then federal pie... some of the politicians and those working for them aren't that dumb... but they are that selfish. I certainly don't see a single golf course being permanently closed, or a anyone's pool being declared illegal due to its affect on the environment 🤔
I suggest you start building some desalinization plants in California and start pumping fresh 💧 water back into the lake
Exactly and when people start saying it cost so much to build the plants they can get all the rich people in California to foot the bill
They sliced a huge hole in the bottom of the lake a while ago. What did they think was going to happen with that hole at th bottom 26 feet in diameter.
did it occur to you that lake mead might be draining from under ? colorado has millions of underground caves and rivers you know
Yep, supplies many underground aquifers.
I saw the Glen canyon dam is going to be taken down soon. Better get started. I just heard that yesterday.
The answer to that question is: It will be the only desert in the world with a bathtub ring.
brilliant 1
You get your friends to bid for new dams / reservoirs and fund it like the high speed railway to no where in Cali
Its cloud formation 101 folks. Rain clouds form from water molecules clinging to NATURALLY occurring dust particles in the atmosphere.
If you continually inject metal oxides into the atmosphere it will dilute the ability of water molecules to mass in such a volume as to form a raincloud and fall as rain.
Been to Vegas much in the last 15 years? That entire region of the desert southeast is one of the worst places in the country for "geo-engineering" it looks like the KC-135's from Nellis AFB are playing tic tac toe over the desert. They are relentless. The sad part is there is now a whole generation of useful idiot millennials that have grown up knowing nothing but this and think that it's normal aircraft contrails.
Time to wake up folks.
If people had their eyes open they would be talking about the effects of "Geo-engineering", aka "stratospheric aerosol injection", aka CHEMTRAILS on the lack of rainfall in the desert southwest.
But nope.
The dumbed down masses think they can google Chemtrails and get the truth, failing to realize that googles algos are geared to steer us not to the truth, but to whatever narrative is being sold to the population, world wide, and because the word chemtrails is associated with the TRUTH about geo-engineering, googles algos seek to discredit it and call it a "conspiracy theory". Try it. try googling Chemtrails, and then in a separate tab google the 'politically correct' term Geoengineering and compare the differences in the links google gives you. Completely different, but they are the same damned thing!
Definitely would not swim in mead at such low levels
Stop trying to grow grass IN THE DESERT!!! I'm not sure why anyone would choose to live in the desert in the first place😆
I would just wilt away in Nevada, as a cold weather loving person from Europe 1
exactly
I bet people that loved to swim in this lake will be cured of this after all the nastiness they have found lately,my motto when swimming has always been," if i cant see the bottom I'm not getting in" lol
Didn't they just have a flood?
Yeah but nothing to see there. Look here--DROUGHT! Sincerely, Leftist Bullshit.
It didn't raise the lake an inch
HELLO California, does the word Desalination mean anything.