Terrible news, but it has to be told. Thank you guys ... so much. Yes, the drought has had a hand in this, but the massive population booms (Las Vegas, Phoenix & vicinity) contributed more. All combined, the river supplies water to over 80, 000,000 (80 million people) including agriculture & 29 Indian reservations. A couple of weeks ago I had heard that the river dribbling into Lake Powell has been shut-off. The SW has been stuck in a "dry river bed with a paddle!" Greed, money & power has been the main cause. The Colo. River no longer flows past Yuma and no longer reaches MX & the Gulf of CA. More housing still being built to gain the government the almighty tax dollar. The gov. does nothing right, except arguably fighting and winning wars. They have too much power and I don't see them choosing anything different. They'll drain it to the last drop & dollar for their own benefit and not ours. They live in their own world, apart from the rest. They serve themselves, only! They'll blame Climate Cange, so they can garner more control, power and money, by mandating us to pay for their subservient laws & treatment, not only for the SW, but for the entire country. More to say, but few read past the first 50 words. Sadly, I would imagine many do not know the crux of the problem and even more don't want to hear it, or know it. God Bless you two for trying to inform all of us.
From what I've read, the Colorado hasn't consistently reached the Gulf of California since the late 80's/90's. It's unreasonable for people to move to a desert and expect an infinite oasis.
@@robertcherry7190 I know that it has been a long time, but it's still receding. It also served 2 seperate areas in MX. I don't know what's happening in those communities.
@@robertcherry7190 You would be shocked to know how many foreign countries, including China have bought land in our country, just to sap up our water reserves to bottle it up and sell it to us. Nestle is a Swiss company that is draining Lake Michigan as we speak, talk about greed. Your heros in Washington have been silently selling your kids future to the highest bidder for decades, buddy.
You are spot on correct. I’m a born and raised Vegas boy. I remember the overflow at the damn. I’m tired of people blaming a drought. I seem to be in this argument everyday. We live in a desert. We live in the driest state in America. We rely on 100 year and 50 year rains. We had no problems when we were a population of 200,000 with millions of visitors. Then the Mirage was built. What I call the beginning of corporate Vegas. After that the mega casino race began. Massive number of great paying jobs became available. The gold rush began and our cities population grew bigger and bigger with every hotel that opened needing anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 employees to operate. Here we sit at a population of 3 million. Like I’ve always said and believe,,,,”it’s a population problem not a drought problem”
@@joeysausage3437 you can care and still not have the ability to help. I guess you don't care about school shooters or you would do something about it. See how that works?
Everyone always tells me I’m weird for thinking there’s something or someone at the bottom of the lake in my hometown, but always gives me a creepy vibe, Everytime I go I get this gut feeling, and it’s very ominous.
UA-cam channel- Adventures With Purpose look for people who have gone missing in lakes and rivers. They have a million subscribers now. Very interesting channel.
Lake Meredith in Texas was like that, down from 80-90 to 26 feet in 2011. Now it's back over 70 feet. We had to stop using the lake (reservoir) as a drinking water source which was the main reason it's doing better, along with getting some good rains in the last decade or so.
@@wesdoobner7521 Lubbock was getting water from Lake Meredith back in the day. Not sure now though . I just moved back here 4 years ago from Las Vegas. Lake Mead was bad then.
I hope they were able to identify the bodies using DNA. That person is someone's missing loved one. Imagine finally being found and the family getting answers after 40-50 years missing. Crazy!
I did my dive certification compass navigation in 1998 at a remote cove we drove to near Overton. We saw several cinder blocks with about 18" of rope attached to them in ~30-40ft of water. That always creeped me out. I'm certain there's a lot of folks sunk in that lake.
@@pain_weaver That's a possibility. Where we were, I wonder. I grew up boating on Lake Mead from childhood through my late 20s. Never heard of anyone going to that area, though anything is possible. The thing is it was accessible via long dirt road, so not a "boating destination" by any means...no boater wants to be at a place you can drive to. Different class of lake users, if you get what I'm saying.
@@BobbyTucker I know what you mean. When I was 19 I did a job for a guy. Won't go into specific details, but a State representative served me papers on the job with minimum penalty of $50k fine and/or 1yr jail time. The property owner took my papers, sat me down with a glass of water and made a phone call. After a moment he handed the phone to me and it was explained to me that I had nothing to worry about...my name and SS# was on those papers because the State Official was "confused." The owner kept my papers, I finished the job. A year later I did "Phase 2" of the project for the owner F.O.C. with no questions asked. I "understood" I owed him. Never heard anything further regarding the matter on those papers, nor did we ever meet again after I finished Phase 2. We were square on the matter.
The barrel you found with all the holes drilled in it looks like someone used it to cheat in a fishing tournament. They pre fish the lake and catch big ones and lock them in the barrel then on tournament day they float up and put them in the livewell.
Congrats on your military retirement! Huge accomplishment! Thanks for your service brother and welcome home. Fellow vet here 06-14 1st CAV. If ya ever wanna catch some walleye here in Montana let me know. Checkout Ft. Peck
Yes sir, thank you for you r dedication to our nation by serving in our military. I appreciate your service. I also want to thank you and your family for your many sacrifices to our country. Thank you.
Great footage. Sad to see this. I use to keep a cabin cruiser at that lake and a house boat. It was getting bad even back then when our dock had to be moved due to the lake levels. Great memories but as a visitor now to Las Vegas I have no desire to go the Lake to see it so dried up. Thanks for sharing.
I was in Vegas in 2003 and Lake Mead was already starting to drop and I remember how sad my aunt and uncle were when they were talking about what it would be like in the future. It’s just sad.
Great job guys!!! My old stomping grounds. I was everywhere from the 1970s. I saw the spillways in 1983 with the gates raised up and water six feet deep passing over them. The Boulder Dam came close to failing as the cavitation in the spillways caused gouges 30’ deep and 40’ wide. The same happened at Glenn Canyon Dam. You guys are fantastic!
I'm a boater/fisherman in Tampa Bay. Man this was extremely interesting and captivating to me. They way you guys came off on video made it seem so surreal and crazy. I feel for you bc I can't imagine something like this happening in my area. Sad!!!
I live north of Tampa now, but grew up in the Phoenix area. I've been to Mead, and watching this video is shocking. This is a mega-disaster for Phoenix and LA. Nobody is discussing this nationally, but this is a dire problem for 2 of the 10 largest cities would n America, as well as Las Vegas.
@@stevescuba1978 nice. Love the fishing here. I just can fathom seeing something like this. Obviously we're in a different situation since we have the ocean but it's all political. Just like the whole red tide situation with the everglades and piney point only added to it.
@@jenniferwise8515 I wouldn't be surprised. There was a forensic files episodes on tampa bay where a guy took 3 women out tied cinder blocks around their ankles and send them down alive. Not to mention the 200+ people who've committed suicide off the skyway Bridge over the years. There is a lot of boat traffic however so it wouldn't be a good idea unless you boated miles and miles into the gulf.
That barrel with holes in it is most likely a live bait barrel. We use them over here on the east coast to keep a stockpile of bait alive so we don’t have to catch them every trip. The fact that they had it sunk could be so no one messes with it OR they were using it to store bigger fish to cheat in fishing tourneys. Never know!
Sad to see this happening, and yet you see so much being wasted in the phoenix and surrounding areas. the one that gets me is seeing irrigation around farm land and water flowing down the side of roads and sometimes flooding over the roads. this will go on for months before the irrigation leak is fixed.
I grew up in Vegas and have lived here since 1969. When I came home after discharge from the military in 1981, Hoover Dam was overflowing its spillways. What a sight to see! I had no idea that this day would eventually come. Spent many days fishing striper boils at the back of Vegas Wash and Government Wash and jumping off the cliffs. What is so upsetting about it is that Las Vegas residents continue to conserve and use less water, but for every gallon saved, developers use that available water to just build more and more homes in the valley.
The sad sight to see I grew up fishing in Lake Mead as a kid. now that my kids are old enough to go fishing it looks like we're going to have to go somewhere else.
I remember fishing out of my boat in the cove just off the Lake mead wash, I snagged a body, as I reeled it in I seen the hook was caught in the guys shirt, I cut the line and we went in and called the Police and waited for them to show up. The Police treated us like we were the ones who put it there. I told them if I ever found something like that again I'd still cut the line but I wouldn't be calling them.
Thank you for this update. It’s so sad! We stayed at the hotel at Echo Bay in 1997 and really had a great time jet skiing and fishing. Now the hotel is wreckage as is the bait store at the launch and the popcorn we fed the fish … it’s all gone. We always wanted to go back and rent a house boat because they were so popular back then, but we never made it back. This all makes me so sad.
Try to not despair, at one time there was no water at all.That was when they decided to build the structure to cause the water to collect. The whole purpose of the lake was to serve as a water source. Due to lack of rain and wastefulness of the water the reserve has dwindled.
I read many years ago about what went into creating that infrastructure project. Others had voiced concern because the studies that were used to predict the water availability was flawed. Going back further into the natural weather and temperature cycles of the area showed reoccurring dry spells. What is happening now was predictable and the area will rebound.
This is so sad. I'm old now and my husband has already passed away but we used to spend every warm weekend on Lake Mead with our kids. We water skied, tubed and rode the water wieinie. We camped out on the beaches and loved every second of our time. Now I see what is happening to his beautiful Lake Mead and it makes me so sad. Please people, don't waste one ounce of water. Get in the shower, wet down, turn shower off while you soap up and wash your hair. Turn shower on to rinse soap off and make sure you turn faucets off all the way. We live in the desert so get desert landscaping put in. Yes, it costs but not as much as having no water to drink. At restaurants, ask for small glasses of water if you need water. Wait until you have full loads of laundry to wash, don't pre rinse dishes and wait for an entire load before you run dish washer. There is so many things we can come up with to stop water waste. LETS ALL PROTECT OUR WATER SOURCE PLEASE.
@@joshrobinson6785 "shower". We all know what you're doing for ten minutes twice a day josh. Just do it in your room and save some water you filthy onanist.
The barrel with the holes in it is a perch trap I believe. The cinderblocks with rope attached to them were trotline anchors you use the perch to bait to trotline
I have also heard that bodies found in the late 80s were tied to buckets like that to hold them down. There is another you tube video about a criminal found that way.
Here in east Tennessee barrels like that are common in area where catfish tournaments are held . People will catch a big one threw the week and put it in the barrel and sink it till the tournament . It's illegal but people still do it
The people dealing with this AREN'T, their too busy protecting diaper don and all his people, you should be concerned, soo there will be no water to swim in, and the only ones getting water to drink will be the rich, as usual. Are you rich, better hope so.
@@carolewilkins8847 yeah the warnings were all there . People consume until there is nothing left to enjoy . I’m from northern Canada and we are poor . But we believe in protecting our land as it is a lifeline for us
Lake Mead and most of the man made reservoir were formed as a result of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s, they were formed when only 91k people lived in the state and maybe 1.3m lived in the whole area using its water. Today over 3M live in the state and 25M-35M use its water, it was never made to support this many people...these reservoir took 7 years to fill in the 30s while allow very little was to flow out of the Hoover Dam.
Greetings from Germany, It's scary to see how a drought affects the ecological system like the water of a dam, I think you've done a good job finding the bodies maybe DNA can link them to a missing persons case and thus to a family help find peace. I'm speechless to see that you can call your boat to you via remote control and I'm really excited about the techniques that are now available. Thanks for the great video, God bless you and stay healthy Please excuse my bad English, I used the google translator because my own English would be even worse ;-)
Wow it’s so sad to see how much the water levels have dropped out here at lake mead. I’ve been in sr’s position myself out there, looked okay but it wasn’t. Another very informative and professional video.
Why are they saying there is a drought in the desert? Does that even make sense? I can tell you why the water is falling. Farmers with deep well irrigation, and you can see this on google earth, are sucking the aquifer dry, and the lake is seeping in to re-fill it. There is no amount of rain that the desert historically gets that will make up for this massive usage. The aquifer is 3/4 depleted, and will dry up in the next 2 decades leaving little drinking or farming water for use, and the entire southwest is going to feel that really badly.
Thank you for this video. We use to go to this lake years ago. Can't believe how low it is. It's unrecognizable now. It's so sad to see the lake like this. We only got to see some of it on the news but this definitely gives a better perspective of how bad it is..
In 2019 we took a helicopter tour of the dam and lake and then they said how much it had gone down and watching this video is crazy how much more it has dropped since then,Where i live we were also going through a drought,But the last few months we:ve had so much rain ,i hope you guys down there can get much needed rain
When I first moved to Las Vegas the population was 136,000 in the city limits, 336,000 county wide, 35 years later, I moved back to the mid-west and the population had expanded to at least 10 times the amount it was when I moved there. It got to be too nutty for me to stay, I loved it when everybody knew everybody.
Thanks for your service. Happy you made it back. I live there in 1998 to 2000. Lake mead was beautiful. Loved Taking my family out to camp. Shame to see it this way. Do they know if and when it can get better?
Was going to move out there 10 to15 yrs ago and my pops said don't come out here that it's going to dry up one day from all the people moving out there and then there's all the water used for agriculture ect... It takes a lots of water to grow those nuts. I don't see it coming back till people start leaving in droves.
Don't worry I'm sure the government will just print some more money and bail them out, and the politicians who mismanaged the water will be praised for fixing the problem they created.
When I first heard about the body in the barrel and the ensuing investigation, it uncovered some interesting facts and theories. The body had shown signs that the person had been shot and the shoes that the person was wearing was consistent with clothing designs of the 70's or 80's. It has also been said that the bodies of people that were murdered and stuffed into barrels like this was consistent with the mob. It's likely that this person was the victim of a mob hit since Las Vegas is a short drive away. I've also heard more stories of more more human remains being found. One story revealed that a human jawbone was found. It's likely that more human remains will be found as Lake Mead continues to dry up.
Without a doubt, reminds me of the movie "Casino" where the Robert DeNiro character is talking about how scary it is to go into the desert because they'll never find your body if you ever get whacked out there, and now we have the bodies from 40 or 50 years ago suddenly turning up!
We used to boat there and Lake Powell 20 some years ago, and yes, we had options on where to launch. We went back and checked those two lakes last year and this year and it is very depressing to see low low the water is now, how far you have to walk to get to the waters! Really sad!
I'm surprised that's all they've found so far. In the meantime, I just moved to the south, Raleigh approximately, and we get approx 2-5" PER WEEK, for most of the year!!! It's absolutely crazy that we can save this up and get it over there so y'all, my family and friends can frickin live!
So sad to see it now. I remember as a kid in 83-84 the water going over the spillway. I spent most of my childhood out there. It kills me to see this lake that way.
Heartbreaking. I've always said that when people started to need boats to get to work in Miami, I am moving to Vegas. Looks like plan B is dying right along with the fish in Lake Mead.
It kills me to see y'alls lake drying up like that! I can't imagine that happening to lake Keowee or Hartwell. I'm hoping for a miracle for you guys! Keep up the good work!
Great job Guys broadcasting this adventure! It's amazing how the lake dried up significantly during the past few years. I dont think it will ever get back to its original state. I would definitely not recommend eating the fish there🤢just catch and release.
It's so sad, when a lake disappears. There was a lake not far from the town where I lived as a child - I remember people went there to swim and all, it was like a little beach by the forrest. By the time I was 10 it completetly dried up and never came back. Allegedly the cause was a coal mine some miles away disturbing some underground streams so they changed direction - nature is a very delicate ecosystem: you dig a hole somewhere and a lake disappears somewhere else.
I started watching your videos when I was working in Vegas and spending my free time hunting jackrabbits. Now I live way far north. I hope you can get out before the desert takes Vegas back. You are good guys and would be welcomed as neighbors here in the northern rockies.
It's sad to see what Lake Mead has become, Vegas residents have been abusing the water in Vegas (including myself unfortunately) for so long and now it's all gone. My buddies neighbor in Henderson runs his sprinklers every morning for 4 hours!!! Insane.
@@poolmonkey7479 - You've decided to live in a desert. Your choice is your business. As I see it, drought is a constant in a desert. Always has been, always will be. If your lifestyle in the desert does not prioritize water as highly as breathable air, your relocation is imminent.
Water level was already low when I last passed Lake Mead 3 years ago. How will the dangerous low watertable affect Hoover Dam hydroelectric supply? What will happen to the power grid and the precious generators if the power ceases? Anyone? Wind, solar...run for hills? Anyone? Horrible crisis and all are osterages...head buried in the sand.
I lived in Vegas years ago and loved it and Lake Meade. This makes me so sad, I was a young mother when I lived there, I am 78 now, so this serves as another reminder of what was and what will never be again. I hope I am wrong and it will return but I just can’t see it now.
I live next to Clear Lake California. The water is 6+feet out from concrete boat ramp in my home park. And the algae and growth are out of control. When I got here, 3 years ago, there was so much water that folks' decks were getting beat up. They just rebuilt the sea wall, done just in time for NOTHING.
I'm sat by the Rheidol river in Aberystwyth in Wales UK. You'd love it. A quite decent wild brown trout, or possibly a sea-trout, just splashed right in front of me. I fly fish. Havnt for years. Your making me want to get my gear out again! Thanks 👍
I live in vegas and litteraly less than a year ago I would go swimming with my now husband and his family in lake mead. Prices going up here and now we don't even have a lake to go to with barely any watermarks or attractions. Makes it harder and harder to live here with what little there is to do already. They focus more on the strip and building housing for more ppl but not keeping the desert livable lol.
Wonderful but sad video. Thank you for a video with no stupid music, no profanity, just facts and very informative. Even though this is a serious subject, I LOL when you buried up in the mud. It's something I would do.
That white barrel attached to the bottom of the lake looks like a secret Shad barrel. Basically a place someone kept their Shad alive to use the next time out.
This has been happening to Elephant Butte Lake Dam and Caballo Dam Lake in New Mexico for years. It’s just not exposed or on the news much because it’s not used for major electricity. Mainly for crops.
Funny you said that about maybe a body was frozen. I was born and raised here and always heard that the UP (Union Plaza) had walk-in freezers that “the family” used for their unwanted “guests”. Then they would take them to the desert to bury or to the lake to sink. I went out last week to check out the lake, and it is heart wrenching. I worked at the Boulder Beach Store every summer. And the Lake Mead Lodge in the winters. It breaks my heart to see it now.
I lived in Vegas back in the 70s. Lake Mead was a favorite week-end camping spot. Shame to see how the drought has affected it. Wonder if I can find my emerald ring I dropped off my dad's boat!! LOL
Crazy stuff … it’ll rain pretty soon , jus shows how important Mother Earth is to everyone.. but be a good time for them to clean and take them wrecked boats out .. take care guys
I don’t know if you guys are native to this area. I also don’t know if you read comments. Had anyone considered a clean-up of Lake Mead and a re-greening project? You can look up re-greening projects on youtube
Its dropping faster as you are at bottom of the V. And its worse then you guys know if your down to the inactive pool slush they'll have to shut down way before empty or the infrastructure would be ruined despite filters. The inactive pool is the lowest storage area in the lake. It is the area designed to trap sediment which enters the lake with every rain. Over the life of the project, as sediment is trapped by the dam, the total storage shrinks. Sediment can impact project purposes as stor- age capacity is reduced.
I think it would only take about 30-40 tankers of melting glacier water or melted icebergs to fill Lake Mead. Do we have some spare tankers? Or maybe just park the tankers and pump the water wherever it need to go.
The lower it gets the faster it will seem to dry up since the valleys are wider at the top. Probably only be another few months and the lake will no longer be.
I’m sad 😞 to hear about lake mead. I had a lot of good times going for stripers and hitting up coves for swimming. I hope lake Powell and mead bounce back
Ever see the movie “Casino?” that’s why you’re finding bodies. Courtesy of Anthony Spilotro. One of his friends Frank Cullotta worked as a consultant on the movie casino. You’re seeing and hearing real deal stories.
I would fish off the dock at my parents house as a kid in the 80's with cheap KMart poles and some of my grandpa's gear and hooks from the 60's and 70's. Thank you for the great content.
Fun fact! When lake mead damn was built 6 turbins produced electric for cities such as L.A. Several states including California owned those turbines that produced electric which operated on natural resources such as oil and gas. In the late 60 or 70's states such as California could not afford to maintain the turbines leaving the turbines in the dam to be maintained by the federal goverment. To this day 1 turbine operates owned by 1 state believed to be Arizona. Being that the federal goverment seeks global warming pressing the issue to the extreme is it truely a drought or is the federal goverment hidding the truth?
In 2012 a Democratic President which we all know about sent over 50Billion Gallons of our fresh water over seas. Democrats are nothing but tyrants & are only looking out for themselves. Last year the company, a Saudi Arabian dairy firm called Almarai, purchased 1,790 acres in the Palo Verde Valley to secure a supply of alfalfa for its dairy cows. United States-as much as 17 percent in 2017-has been loaded onto trucks, driven hundreds of miles to ports on the west coast, and shipped around the world, mainly to China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. There is a reason why the US needs to stop foreign investors from buying our land, they do not care about us yet rely off of our recourses. That water will be gone by the End of Bidens reign. Ill mark this post & come back to it. It will make the news in a year or two about him selling our land.
problem is, rich people back in the old days decided to build metropolis size cities where water has to be piped in, Los Angeles, Vegas, Many desert cities where there is no water. most cites on the colorado and the rio grande are drying up as state govs dam up and suck the water out.
Thanks for sharing this brothers,yes it is awful,any ideas on how to fix this man made tragedy,I heard they let snow melt run into the ocean instead of filling the lakes ,they did it for years now look at it.just plain evil doings.
They have to let snow melt and fresh water flow into the ocean. If they don't since the areas where they pump water for the aqueducts and canals are tidal waters the pumps will suck up salt water if they don't let fresh water flow out. The more fresh water they pump the more salt water from the ocean comes further in land. If salt water gets into the system then everything is ruined. All the water stored in lakes will be tainted and useless for human use. All the fish will die as well. The truth is that there are to many people, industry and agriculture in the west. And water is at its limit.
Beautiful Lake Mead brings water, electricity & fishing. The Globalist psychopaths don’t want the population to flourish. The World Economic Forum says, “You will Own Nothing & Be Happy.” - Apparently this includes food, water & electricity. -- Jesus is the only way to escape the coming severe challenges ahead.
I know Nevada has strict water waste fines, understandable. I’m not sure how many people are aware but Arizona stores a lot of water for Nevada. Not for free, basically Arizona sells Nevada water. When traveling through the desert of AZ and all you see through your window is flatland well underground there are hundreds of thousands of gallon storage tanks. Thank you Mr. Barry Goldwater for predicting the deserts future. Mr. Goldwater made certain Arizona would have the water needed as he predicted the millions of people coming to Arizona. Not only did he predict the water shortage but he had a big hand in our highways here in Arizona. Any time I meet someone from the east coast it’s in evitable they will tell me the favorite part about Arizona is our highways. Nevada politicians, IMO , need to step it up and solve this crisis. Great video! I just found this channel.
Terrible news, but it has to be told. Thank you guys ... so much.
Yes, the drought has had a hand in this, but the massive population booms (Las Vegas, Phoenix & vicinity) contributed more. All combined, the river supplies water to over 80, 000,000 (80 million people) including agriculture & 29 Indian reservations.
A couple of weeks ago I had heard that the river dribbling into Lake Powell has been shut-off. The SW has been stuck in a "dry river bed with a paddle!" Greed, money & power has been the main cause. The Colo. River no longer flows past Yuma and no longer reaches MX & the Gulf of CA. More housing still being built to gain the government the almighty tax dollar. The gov. does nothing right, except arguably fighting and winning wars. They have too much power and I don't see them choosing anything different. They'll drain it to the last drop & dollar for their own benefit and not ours. They live in their own world, apart from the rest. They serve themselves, only! They'll blame Climate Cange, so they can garner more control, power and money, by mandating us to pay for their subservient laws & treatment, not only for the SW, but for the entire country. More to say, but few read past the first 50 words. Sadly, I would imagine many do not know the crux of the problem and even more don't want to hear it, or know it.
God Bless you two for trying to inform all of us.
I agree with you, and I read past 50 words lol. Greed is killing us and greed will always be the biggest contributer to hunger, death and poverty.
From what I've read, the Colorado hasn't consistently reached the Gulf of California since the late 80's/90's.
It's unreasonable for people to move to a desert and expect an infinite oasis.
@@robertcherry7190 I know that it has been a long time, but it's still receding. It also served 2 seperate areas in MX. I don't know what's happening in those communities.
@@robertcherry7190 You would be shocked to know how many foreign countries, including China have bought land in our country, just to sap up our water reserves to bottle it up and sell it to us. Nestle is a Swiss company that is draining Lake Michigan as we speak, talk about greed. Your heros in Washington have been silently selling your kids future to the highest bidder for decades, buddy.
You are spot on correct. I’m a born and raised Vegas boy. I remember the overflow at the damn. I’m tired of people blaming a drought. I seem to be in this argument everyday. We live in a desert. We live in the driest state in America. We rely on 100 year and 50 year rains. We had no problems when we were a population of 200,000 with millions of visitors. Then the Mirage was built. What I call the beginning of corporate Vegas. After that the mega casino race began. Massive number of great paying jobs became available. The gold rush began and our cities population grew bigger and bigger with every hotel that opened needing anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 employees to operate. Here we sit at a population of 3 million. Like I’ve always said and believe,,,,”it’s a population problem not a drought problem”
Very well done, gentlemen. No profanity, no obnoxious music/racket in the background. Just clean, informative content. Liked and subbed.
Oh no. Cussing. Oh my.
Agree 100! It's hard to find quality content
what the fuck are you talking about
Cussing obviously isn't a big deal, but sometimes people prefer content without all the extra horsing around
Who cares about cursing.....???
I'm 50 years old I'm a big boy I can handle it ....
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Why aren't people taking advantage of the low levels to clean up all the barells, boats, and trash?
I thought the same thing. Sadly, we both know the answer, people don't care enough.
If you two really cared you would be cleaning up the place.
because they aren't planning on fixing the lake they are letting it dry out
@@joeysausage3437 you can care and still not have the ability to help. I guess you don't care about school shooters or you would do something about it. See how that works?
@@Doc010 EXACTLY!
Everyone always tells me I’m weird for thinking there’s something or someone at the bottom of the lake in my hometown, but always gives me a creepy vibe, Everytime I go I get this gut feeling, and it’s very ominous.
Always trust your gut instinct
When did you dump the body there ? 🤔
Im pretty sure there's missing ppl in every single lake. Especially in sanctuary cities those places even in little ponds have 30-40 dead bodies.
UA-cam channel- Adventures With Purpose look for people who have gone missing in lakes and rivers. They have a million subscribers now. Very interesting channel.
@@bbe3034 AWP they’re working with another youtube channel Profiling Evil -created by Mike King. He’s been working on criminal investigations 🤔.
Lake Meredith in Texas was like that, down from 80-90 to 26 feet in 2011. Now it's back over 70 feet. We had to stop using the lake (reservoir) as a drinking water source which was the main reason it's doing better, along with getting some good rains in the last decade or so.
Are you from Lubbock? I was wondering if we still got water from there. Moved from Vegas 4 years ago this is crazy.
@@claranielsen3382 amarillo - we all got water from meredith but not so much now.
@@wesdoobner7521 Lubbock was getting water from Lake Meredith back in the day. Not sure now though . I just moved back here 4 years ago from Las Vegas. Lake Mead was bad then.
I hope they were able to identify the bodies using DNA. That person is someone's missing loved one. Imagine finally being found and the family getting answers after 40-50 years missing. Crazy!
I did my dive certification compass navigation in 1998 at a remote cove we drove to near Overton. We saw several cinder blocks with about 18" of rope attached to them in ~30-40ft of water. That always creeped me out. I'm certain there's a lot of folks sunk in that lake.
They were probably mooring boueys
There's more truth to your comment than you realize, take the word of someone else who's "Been there, Done that".
@@pain_weaver That's a possibility. Where we were, I wonder. I grew up boating on Lake Mead from childhood through my late 20s. Never heard of anyone going to that area, though anything is possible. The thing is it was accessible via long dirt road, so not a "boating destination" by any means...no boater wants to be at a place you can drive to. Different class of lake users, if you get what I'm saying.
@@BobbyTucker I know what you mean. When I was 19 I did a job for a guy. Won't go into specific details, but a State representative served me papers on the job with minimum penalty of $50k fine and/or 1yr jail time. The property owner took my papers, sat me down with a glass of water and made a phone call. After a moment he handed the phone to me and it was explained to me that I had nothing to worry about...my name and SS# was on those papers because the State Official was "confused." The owner kept my papers, I finished the job. A year later I did "Phase 2" of the project for the owner F.O.C. with no questions asked. I "understood" I owed him. Never heard anything further regarding the matter on those papers, nor did we ever meet again after I finished Phase 2. We were square on the matter.
Jimmy Hoffa
The barrel you found with all the holes drilled in it looks like someone used it to cheat in a fishing tournament. They pre fish the lake and catch big ones and lock them in the barrel then on tournament day they float up and put them in the livewell.
Sounds like somebody's been winning. 😂😂 Just joking!! Interesting.
Same thought, someone was caught doing that in my hometown when I was little, they got a lifetime ban from all local fishing tournaments for that one
We use barrels to catch catfish so doubt it was from a bass tournament
@@Rossbrian1 no one said anything about bass here
@@Falcon532. noone didn't say it wasn't either
Congrats on your military retirement! Huge accomplishment! Thanks for your service brother and welcome home. Fellow vet here 06-14 1st CAV. If ya ever wanna catch some walleye here in Montana let me know. Checkout Ft. Peck
What been going on with the walleye in idaho?
Yes sir, thank you for you r dedication to our nation by serving in our military. I appreciate your service. I also want to thank you and your family for your many sacrifices to our country. Thank you.
Great footage. Sad to see this. I use to keep a cabin cruiser at that lake and a house boat. It was getting bad even back then when our dock had to be moved due to the lake levels. Great memories but as a visitor now to Las Vegas I have no desire to go the Lake to see it so dried up. Thanks for sharing.
I was in Vegas in 2003 and Lake Mead was already starting to drop and I remember how sad my aunt and uncle were when they were talking about what it would be like in the future. It’s just sad.
We're there now in that future, yet people with money are still spending 8500 dollars to launch large boats into Mead Pond!
Great job guys!!!
My old stomping grounds.
I was everywhere from the 1970s.
I saw the spillways in 1983 with the gates raised up and water six feet deep passing over them.
The Boulder Dam came close to failing as the cavitation in the spillways caused gouges 30’ deep and 40’ wide.
The same happened at Glenn Canyon Dam.
You guys are fantastic!
wow would like to see some photos will look for thank you
I'm a boater/fisherman in Tampa Bay. Man this was extremely interesting and captivating to me. They way you guys came off on video made it seem so surreal and crazy. I feel for you bc I can't imagine something like this happening in my area. Sad!!!
I live north of Tampa now, but grew up in the Phoenix area. I've been to Mead, and watching this video is shocking. This is a mega-disaster for Phoenix and LA. Nobody is discussing this nationally, but this is a dire problem for 2 of the 10 largest cities would n America, as well as Las Vegas.
@@stevescuba1978 nice. Love the fishing here. I just can fathom seeing something like this. Obviously we're in a different situation since we have the ocean but it's all political. Just like the whole red tide situation with the everglades and piney point only added to it.
Add in piney point to lake mead and Vegas would be Lost Vegas in a week.
Tampa has mob hits. I bet your bay holds bodies.
@@jenniferwise8515 I wouldn't be surprised. There was a forensic files episodes on tampa bay where a guy took 3 women out tied cinder blocks around their ankles and send them down alive. Not to mention the 200+ people who've committed suicide off the skyway Bridge over the years. There is a lot of boat traffic however so it wouldn't be a good idea unless you boated miles and miles into the gulf.
That barrel with holes in it is most likely a live bait barrel. We use them over here on the east coast to keep a stockpile of bait alive so we don’t have to catch them every trip. The fact that they had it sunk could be so no one messes with it OR they were using it to store bigger fish to cheat in fishing tourneys. Never know!
Sad to see this happening, and yet you see so much being wasted in the phoenix and surrounding areas. the one that gets me is seeing irrigation around farm land and water flowing down the side of roads and sometimes flooding over the roads. this will go on for months before the irrigation leak is fixed.
I grew up in Vegas and have lived here since 1969. When I came home after discharge from the military in 1981, Hoover Dam was overflowing its spillways. What a sight to see! I had no idea that this day would eventually come. Spent many days fishing striper boils at the back of Vegas Wash and Government Wash and jumping off the cliffs. What is so upsetting about it is that Las Vegas residents continue to conserve and use less water, but for every gallon saved, developers use that available water to just build more and more homes in the valley.
The sad sight to see I grew up fishing in Lake Mead as a kid. now that my kids are old enough to go fishing it looks like we're going to have to go somewhere else.
I remember fishing out of my boat in the cove just off the Lake mead wash, I snagged a body, as I reeled it in I seen the hook was caught in the guys shirt, I cut the line and we went in and called the Police and waited for them to show up. The Police treated us like we were the ones who put it there. I told them if I ever found something like that again I'd still cut the line but I wouldn't be calling them.
Thank you for this update. It’s so sad! We stayed at the hotel at Echo Bay in 1997 and really had a great time jet skiing and fishing. Now the hotel is wreckage as is the bait store at the launch and the popcorn we fed the fish … it’s all gone. We always wanted to go back and rent a house boat because they were so popular back then, but we never made it back. This all makes me so sad.
Try to not despair, at one time there was no water at all.That was when they decided to build the structure to cause the water to collect. The whole purpose of the lake was to serve as a water source. Due to lack of rain and wastefulness of the water the reserve has dwindled.
I read many years ago about what went into creating that infrastructure project.
Others had voiced concern because the studies that were used to predict the water availability was flawed. Going back further into the natural weather and temperature cycles of the area showed reoccurring dry spells.
What is happening now was predictable and the area will rebound.
This is so sad. I'm old now and my husband has already passed away but we used to spend every warm weekend on Lake Mead with our kids. We water skied, tubed and rode the water wieinie. We camped out on the beaches and loved every second of our time. Now I see what is happening to his beautiful Lake Mead and it makes me so sad. Please people, don't waste one ounce of water. Get in the shower, wet down, turn shower off while you soap up and wash your hair. Turn shower on to rinse soap off and make sure you turn faucets off all the way. We live in the desert so get desert landscaping put in. Yes, it costs but not as much as having no water to drink. At restaurants, ask for small glasses of water if you need water. Wait until you have full loads of laundry to wash, don't pre rinse dishes and wait for an entire load before you run dish washer. There is so many things we can come up with to stop water waste. LETS ALL PROTECT OUR WATER SOURCE PLEASE.
A great story ,and well said .
Youre crazy lady. I needs 2 hot showers a day mininum for atleast 10 minutes apeice.
@@joshrobinson6785 "shower". We all know what you're doing for ten minutes twice a day josh. Just do it in your room and save some water you filthy onanist.
@@joshrobinson6785 and your to much of a wuss to tear off the water while you soap up ? 😂
Shutting down all the golf courses would be first.
Sorry to hear that about Lake Mead, and I’m sad for your loss of a great resource to fish and boat.
The barrel with the holes in it is a perch trap I believe. The cinderblocks with rope attached to them were trotline anchors you use the perch to bait to trotline
I have also heard that bodies found in the late 80s were tied to buckets like that to hold them down. There is another you tube video about a criminal found that way.
Here in east Tennessee barrels like that are common in area where catfish tournaments are held . People will catch a big one threw the week and put it in the barrel and sink it till the tournament . It's illegal but people still do it
You guys gave lots of info in such little time. GOOD JOB
The use of the remote controlled boat was over the top. Keep doing what you do.
Thanks
Man that’s so concerning how low the water is . I really feel for people dealing with this .
The people dealing with this AREN'T, their too busy protecting diaper don and all his people, you should be concerned, soo there will be no water to swim in, and the only ones getting water to drink will be the rich, as usual. Are you rich, better hope so.
@@carolewilkins8847 yeah the warnings were all there . People consume until there is nothing left to enjoy . I’m from northern Canada and we are poor . But we believe in protecting our land as it is a lifeline for us
Lake Mead and most of the man made reservoir were formed as a result of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s, they were formed when only 91k people lived in the state and maybe 1.3m lived in the whole area using its water. Today over 3M live in the state and 25M-35M use its water, it was never made to support this many people...these reservoir took 7 years to fill in the 30s while allow very little was to flow out of the Hoover Dam.
Greetings from Germany,
It's scary to see how a drought affects the ecological system like the water of a dam, I think you've done a good job finding the bodies maybe DNA can link them to a missing persons case and thus to a family help find peace. I'm speechless to see that you can call your boat to you via remote control and I'm really excited about the techniques that are now available.
Thanks for the great video, God bless you and stay healthy
Please excuse my bad English, I used the google translator because my own English would be even worse ;-)
You two gentlemen did a great job. If you could keep posting updated water levels, etc.
It's crazy how some of them rocks look like perfect stairs. Makes you wonder what that place was years and years ago
Cut out. Its a man made lake
Wow it’s so sad to see how much the water levels have dropped out here at lake mead. I’ve been in sr’s position myself out there, looked okay but it wasn’t. Another very informative and professional video.
Why are they saying there is a drought in the desert? Does that even make sense? I can tell you why the water is falling. Farmers with deep well irrigation, and you can see this on google earth, are sucking the aquifer dry, and the lake is seeping in to re-fill it. There is no amount of rain that the desert historically gets that will make up for this massive usage. The aquifer is 3/4 depleted, and will dry up in the next 2 decades leaving little drinking or farming water for use, and the entire southwest is going to feel that really badly.
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Thank you for this video. We use to go to this lake years ago. Can't believe how low it is. It's unrecognizable now. It's so sad to see the lake like this. We only got to see some of it on the news but this definitely gives a better perspective of how bad it is..
Wth I don't remember writing this or watching this video-👁️
@@gummi_ber280 ... Interesting
@@gummi_ber280 ,
Go back to sleep,lol
In 2019 we took a helicopter tour of the dam and lake and then they said how much it had gone down and watching this video is crazy how much more it has dropped since then,Where i live we were also going through a drought,But the last few months we:ve had so much rain ,i hope you guys down there can get much needed rain
I never seen anyone use a remote to control the boat to pick them up 🤯 that’s dope 💯
When I first moved to Las Vegas the population was 136,000 in the city limits, 336,000 county wide, 35 years later, I moved back to the mid-west and the population had expanded to at least 10 times the amount it was when I moved there. It got to be too nutty for me to stay, I loved it when everybody knew everybody.
WHYYYYYY are there massive amounts of houses and apartments being built if there’s truly such a water crisis?!!!
people keep having kids that's why. Population keeps increasing
Greed!
Because they don’t care. It’s all about the money.
I guess it will stop when the water runs out….sad
Yup. Vegas about to be a massive ghost town. Mad max for real. 🤔
Thanks for your service. Happy you made it back. I live there in 1998 to 2000. Lake mead was beautiful. Loved Taking my family out to camp. Shame to see it this way. Do they know if and when it can get better?
Wow😨 This makes me want to dig up the pictures and slides I took at the Hoover Dam (35 years ago)...
Same here! I had a miserable time in the heat though.
Was going to move out there 10 to15 yrs ago and my pops said don't come out here that it's going to dry up one day from all the people moving out there and then there's all the water used for agriculture ect... It takes a lots of water to grow those nuts. I don't see it coming back till people start leaving in droves.
Don't worry I'm sure the government will just print some more money and bail them out, and the politicians who mismanaged the water will be praised for fixing the problem they created.
When I first heard about the body in the barrel and the ensuing investigation, it uncovered some interesting facts and theories. The body had shown signs that the person had been shot and the shoes that the person was wearing was consistent with clothing designs of the 70's or 80's. It has also been said that the bodies of people that were murdered and stuffed into barrels like this was consistent with the mob. It's likely that this person was the victim of a mob hit since Las Vegas is a short drive away. I've also heard more stories of more more human remains being found. One story revealed that a human jawbone was found. It's likely that more human remains will be found as Lake Mead continues to dry up.
Without a doubt, reminds me of the movie "Casino" where the Robert DeNiro character is talking about how scary it is to go into the desert because they'll never find your body if you ever get whacked out there, and now we have the bodies from 40 or 50 years ago suddenly turning up!
Horror stories
Yummy water
Lake Mead was man made just like the Salton Sea and look where that body of water is now... Nature always win over man.
We used to boat there and Lake Powell 20 some years ago, and yes, we had options on where to launch. We went back and checked those two lakes last year and this year and it is very depressing to see low low the water is now, how far you have to walk to get to the waters! Really sad!
I'm surprised that's all they've found so far.
In the meantime, I just moved to the south, Raleigh approximately, and we get approx 2-5" PER WEEK, for most of the year!!! It's absolutely crazy that we can save this up and get it over there so y'all, my family and friends can frickin live!
Sad to see the lake like that.. Thank you for sharing this experience with all of us.. excellent video.. Keep up the great work..
So sad to see it now. I remember as a kid in 83-84 the water going over the spillway. I spent most of my childhood out there. It kills me to see this lake that way.
Heartbreaking. I've always said that when people started to need boats to get to work in Miami, I am moving to Vegas. Looks like plan B is dying right along with the fish in Lake Mead.
It kills me to see y'alls lake drying up like that! I can't imagine that happening to lake Keowee or Hartwell. I'm hoping for a miracle for you guys! Keep up the good work!
Great job Guys broadcasting this adventure! It's amazing how the lake dried up significantly during the past few years. I dont think it will ever get back to its original state. I would definitely not recommend eating the fish there🤢just catch and release.
Sounds like a good time for the community to come together and clean up all of the crap put there by the fellow man!
Exactly.
Its all officially artifacts that belong to the state/federal park so you can't even touch it legally.
You could do that anytime anywhere. You don't need to wait for a lake to dry up Mark.
Cool episode guys!! I was at Lake Mohave last week and it was 94% full. It would seem the extra drive time will make up for the wait at the ramp.
Thanks for showing us lake mead great video sad how low the lake is so low keep up the good work sin city outdoors 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Really sucks out here in SoCal because of this drought and heat. The entire southwest actually. It’s spreading north too.
It's so sad, when a lake disappears. There was a lake not far from the town where I lived as a child - I remember people went there to swim and all, it was like a little beach by the forrest. By the time I was 10 it completetly dried up and never came back. Allegedly the cause was a coal mine some miles away disturbing some underground streams so they changed direction - nature is a very delicate ecosystem: you dig a hole somewhere and a lake disappears somewhere else.
We are loosing more and more natural resources as the years go on. I live in northern quebec, and even we have fish eating advisories.
I started watching your videos when I was working in Vegas and spending my free time hunting jackrabbits. Now I live way far north. I hope you can get out before the desert takes Vegas back. You are good guys and would be welcomed as neighbors here in the northern rockies.
It's sad to see what Lake Mead has become, Vegas residents have been abusing the water in Vegas (including myself unfortunately) for so long and now it's all gone. My buddies neighbor in Henderson runs his sprinklers every morning for 4 hours!!! Insane.
Vegas has nothing to do with the state of Mead…we use a fraction of our 2% compact allotment and less water than we used in the early 90s.
@@poolmonkey7479 So then climate change, we are still at fault in many different ways.
@@Sonny1065LV ..yep..no doubt the first drought ever 👍🏻
@@poolmonkey7479 - You've decided to live in a desert.
Your choice is your business. As I see it, drought is a constant in a desert. Always has been, always will be.
If your lifestyle in the desert does not prioritize water as highly as breathable air, your relocation is imminent.
@@robertcherry7190 …🤣
We went RV camping at Lake Mead, camp ground advertisted as directly next to the lake, it was a 30 min walk to the lake
Water level was already low when I last passed Lake Mead 3 years ago. How will the dangerous low watertable affect Hoover Dam hydroelectric supply? What will happen to the power grid and the precious generators if the power ceases? Anyone? Wind, solar...run for hills? Anyone? Horrible crisis and all are osterages...head buried in the sand.
You all did a good job on this documentary. Probably more honest than any news Clips I've seen on it. Looks to me like Vegas is in serious trouble
Very good recording I really felt like I was there with you 2 please be careful out there GOD be with you both 🙏
Our family had boats docked there for years ,loved spending weekend's there, what a shame
I lived in Vegas years ago and loved it and Lake Meade. This makes me so sad, I was a young mother when I lived there, I am 78 now, so this serves as another reminder of what was and what will never be again. I hope I am wrong and it will return but I just can’t see it now.
I live next to Clear Lake California. The water is 6+feet out from concrete boat ramp in my home park. And the algae and growth are out of control. When I got here, 3 years ago, there was so much water that folks' decks were getting beat up. They just rebuilt the sea wall, done just in time for NOTHING.
Hey sin city outdoors I would love to see a bow hunting video for rabbits
Who's is with me
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I'll try this summer... its pretty hard
@@SinCityOutdoors Awesome Thanks I hope you guys get a bunch of them.
One of the positive things about this whole situation is that someone can clean the lake of this rubbish and solve the mystery of these bodies.
Love the videos I'm going to vegas in October 2022 I'm from Canada and very worried for you guys I really hope the water situation gets worked on
I'm sat by the Rheidol river in Aberystwyth in Wales UK. You'd love it. A quite decent wild brown trout, or possibly a sea-trout, just splashed right in front of me. I fly fish. Havnt for years. Your making me want to get my gear out again! Thanks 👍
I live in vegas and litteraly less than a year ago I would go swimming with my now husband and his family in lake mead. Prices going up here and now we don't even have a lake to go to with barely any watermarks or attractions. Makes it harder and harder to live here with what little there is to do already. They focus more on the strip and building housing for more ppl but not keeping the desert livable lol.
Wonderful but sad video. Thank you for a video with no stupid music, no profanity, just facts and very informative. Even though this is a serious subject, I LOL when you buried up in the mud. It's something I would do.
Wow glad I got out of there. Sad to see my old stomping ground’s go away.
Same here. Left in '03. It was just going down then. Can't imagine what it's like now.
That white barrel attached to the bottom of the lake looks like a secret Shad barrel. Basically a place someone kept their Shad alive to use the next time out.
Didn’t think about that… could be a tournament cheat bucket lol
Jonny S…yep
What's a shad?
This has been happening to Elephant Butte Lake Dam and Caballo Dam Lake in New Mexico for years. It’s just not exposed or on the news much because it’s not used for major electricity. Mainly for crops.
Funny you said that about maybe a body was frozen. I was born and raised here and always heard that the UP (Union Plaza) had walk-in freezers that “the family” used for their unwanted “guests”. Then they would take them to the desert to bury or to the lake to sink. I went out last week to check out the lake, and it is heart wrenching. I worked at the Boulder Beach Store every summer. And the Lake Mead Lodge in the winters. It breaks my heart to see it now.
Thank you brother’s very informative much appreciated.
Hey also Thank you for your service 🤝👊🏻🙏
You guys did a fantastic job of showing rhe lake.
It's so sad I haven't really been on the lake in years because we sold our boat and now it's gone
I lived in Vegas back in the 70s. Lake Mead was a favorite week-end camping spot. Shame to see how the drought has affected it. Wonder if I can find my emerald ring I dropped off my dad's boat!! LOL
Thank you for sharing this information 🙏.
Great videos guys! Sad situation, best of luck to all in Nevada.
Crazy stuff … it’ll rain pretty soon , jus shows how important Mother Earth is to everyone.. but be a good time for them to clean and take them wrecked boats out .. take care guys
I don’t know if you guys are native to this area. I also don’t know if you read comments. Had anyone considered a clean-up of Lake Mead and a re-greening project? You can look up re-greening projects on youtube
Its dropping faster as you are at bottom of the V. And its worse then you guys know if your down to the inactive pool slush they'll have to shut down way before empty or the infrastructure would be ruined despite filters.
The inactive pool is the lowest storage area in the lake. It is the area designed to trap sediment which enters the lake with every rain. Over the life of the project, as sediment is trapped by the dam, the total storage shrinks. Sediment can impact project purposes as stor- age capacity is reduced.
This lake is dropping daily. It's scary to think what will be on dry land soon.
An unknown number of barrels were dumped during construction of the dam. Can’t imagine wtf else is in that lake…😬
I'm trying to go fishing at lake Mead before it dry up completely
I think it would only take about 30-40 tankers of melting glacier water or melted icebergs to fill Lake Mead. Do we have some spare tankers? Or maybe just park the tankers and pump the water wherever it need to go.
Good video guys thank you!
Sad to see how fast the water level is dropping... hope for a unusually wet year.
The lower it gets the faster it will seem to dry up since the valleys are wider at the top. Probably only be another few months and the lake will no longer be.
@@bcrusher1979 that is tragic
The lake hit 1050 feet today.
Wow, hard to believe
I like you guys. Straight forward. Father and son. Interesting content. 👍👍
A man made lake with no river or spring feeding it, put in the middle of a desert. And you expected it to survive forever? WoW
I’m sad 😞 to hear about lake mead. I had a lot of good times going for stripers and hitting up coves for swimming. I hope lake Powell and mead bounce back
It’s terrifying seeing the lake so low.
Thats alot more horrifying than a few dead people, there worrying is over
It would be cool if someone could math the volume of water that is gone from the lake. I bet it is an insane number of gallons
Ever see the movie “Casino?” that’s why you’re finding bodies. Courtesy of Anthony Spilotro. One of his friends Frank Cullotta worked as a consultant on the movie casino. You’re seeing and hearing real deal stories.
I would fish off the dock at my parents house as a kid in the 80's with cheap KMart poles and some of my grandpa's gear and hooks from the 60's and 70's. Thank you for the great content.
Fun fact!
When lake mead damn was built 6 turbins produced electric for cities such as L.A. Several states including California owned those turbines that produced electric which operated on natural resources such as oil and gas. In the late 60 or 70's states such as California could not afford to maintain the turbines leaving the turbines in the dam to be maintained by the federal goverment. To this day 1 turbine operates owned by 1 state believed to be Arizona. Being that the federal goverment seeks global warming pressing the issue to the extreme is it truely a drought or is the federal goverment hidding the truth?
In 2012 a Democratic President which we all know about sent over 50Billion Gallons of our fresh water over seas. Democrats are nothing but tyrants & are only looking out for themselves.
Last year the company, a Saudi Arabian dairy firm called Almarai, purchased 1,790 acres in the Palo Verde Valley to secure a supply of alfalfa for its dairy cows.
United States-as much as 17 percent in 2017-has been loaded onto trucks, driven hundreds of miles to ports on the west coast, and shipped around the world, mainly to China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.
There is a reason why the US needs to stop foreign investors from buying our land, they do not care about us yet rely off of our recourses. That water will be gone by the End of Bidens reign. Ill mark this post & come back to it. It will make the news in a year or two about him selling our land.
problem is, rich people back in the old days decided to build metropolis size cities where water has to be piped in, Los Angeles, Vegas, Many desert cities where there is no water. most cites on the colorado and the rio grande are drying up as state govs dam up and suck the water out.
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Fun Fact, google world population 1959 and 1960.
1959 = 2.9 billion
1960 = 3.0 billion
2022 just China + India = 3.0 + billion
@@albundy8052 Fun fact desalination plants work. but governments doesn't, end of story.
Maybe you’ll find Jimmy Hoffa.
I wish lol
Thanks for sharing this brothers,yes it is awful,any ideas on how to fix this man made tragedy,I heard they let snow melt run into the ocean instead of filling the lakes ,they did it for years now look at it.just plain evil doings.
They have to let snow melt and fresh water flow into the ocean. If they don't since the areas where they pump water for the aqueducts and canals are tidal waters the pumps will suck up salt water if they don't let fresh water flow out. The more fresh water they pump the more salt water from the ocean comes further in land. If salt water gets into the system then everything is ruined. All the water stored in lakes will be tainted and useless for human use. All the fish will die as well.
The truth is that there are to many people, industry and agriculture in the west. And water is at its limit.
Beautiful Lake Mead brings water, electricity & fishing. The Globalist psychopaths don’t want the population to flourish. The World Economic Forum says, “You will Own Nothing & Be Happy.” - Apparently this includes food, water & electricity. -- Jesus is the only way to escape the coming severe challenges ahead.
@@jesusiskingofkings4650 That's right 👍 ,we may have to endure some things but in the end it will be absolutely amazing.
My uncle had a place in Meadview when he passed away. He talked about the water levels dropping even back in the early 90's.
I know Nevada has strict water waste fines, understandable.
I’m not sure how many people are aware but Arizona stores a lot of water for Nevada. Not for free, basically Arizona sells Nevada water. When traveling through the desert of AZ and all you see through your window is flatland well underground there are hundreds of thousands of gallon storage tanks.
Thank you Mr. Barry Goldwater for predicting the deserts future. Mr. Goldwater made certain Arizona would have the water needed as he predicted the millions of people coming to Arizona.
Not only did he predict the water shortage but he had a big hand in our highways here in Arizona.
Any time I meet someone from the east coast it’s in evitable they will tell me the favorite part about Arizona is our highways.
Nevada politicians, IMO , need to step it up and solve this crisis.
Great video! I just found this channel.
Love the vids
Yes, we have zebra mussels in some of our Canadian lakes too, now there is boat checks everywhere!