Short sighted politicians have been ignoring the warnings since the late 80's early 90's and call for more and denser development of an area that was never meant to support such a large population.
@@AMPProf Israel uses 74 gallons per person per day Utah 244. Israel treats water as the precious resource it is. The southwest acts like there is an endless supply.
This was an issue when I lived out there in 1992. You figure that they would have fixed this problem by now. Really that problem is building in the west. Just stop the building. No water, no building.
It was always a news story on the local Vegas networks. There were some major scares over the years with various droughts and the resulting issues on the restrictions on building. But you are right, it has never been this bad.
Yes, in 1992 they were building like mad. I remember being an insurance salesperson by day and a security guard by night. I would drive around and have to find new streets to service existing customers and then sit in new construction developments as a guard at night. So I was always buying new maps of the area. Often I would go to an area that I haven't been to in 3 months and it would be all built up. It was so shocking. The issue of water in Lake Mead was always an issue as permits were needed to build in Vegas. The construction would stop because of the lack of water, or that the water level and drought caused Mead to drop. It was ALWAYS a news story out there. Because people would lose their jobs in construction. The industry would find some stupid reason that they could conserve water, the government would then issue more permits, and of course the water problem continued. Drought years: 2007-09, 1987-92, 1976-77.
So your saying democrats should put the millions of illegals somewhere else? This is how our torn to shreds social safety nets will be dealt with too - too little too late.
Totally agreed. We are leaving New Mexico in September and won't look back. In my town data shows we can have "adequate" water for 50,000. The City Council just got some $$$$$ from Pulte to build MORE HOMES. Add in fires all around and life here is dying faster than you can say - DEAD TREES.
My state, (California) bears the most responsibility for killing the Colorado. 23 million people south of the Santa Barbara County line on the edge of two great deserts that stretch all the way to Texas. But, among other things, lawns and golf courses still going full speed.
Not that I play, but golf courses are not the problem here, not compared to Big Ag growing shit like almonds and using up the groundwater for big $$. Remember, 'Privatize the Profits and Socialize the Loses'.
Sw area irrigated the desert with water that had to be piped in from natural sources. I’m glad they are finally suffering from their arrogance. Southern California refuses to build desalination plants with and endless resource “the Pacific Ocean” and instead want to divert the Mississippi River so they can continue their wasteful practices. Have fun with your lack of water, but continue to build golf courses for the rich and grow crops in the desert.
The second you realize this isn’t a political issue the second we start making progress. This is mismanagement, if this doesn’t explain our government in a nutshell nothing will, both sides are evil and need to no longer exist.
I’ve been wondering myself if the government would ever drain lake Meade for the hell of it to cause an issue in order to have another agenda to run on?
@@blakejohnson3864 It's mismanagement in that the CO river project involving MEAD and Powell wasn't thought about or planned out long term. This was never going to work long term. They should've been on top of this after forming Powell. If you're going to reroute and damn water (especially in a desert) you have to plan for perpetuity.
We need “problems” ..so public “reacts “ demanding “solutions” which gives power, money, jobs to the solution saveys…. go Brandon, ahh, Bartleby, ahh, Humanity
No, they won't say overpopulation in the las Vegas Nevada valley. No, can't do that. Too many people, not enough water. Ripping out all lawns, trees, plants, swimming pools, jacuzzis, water falls, fountains, whatever won't solve the problem. It might delay doomsday dead pool in 2025. But problem still there. Keep building homes, apartments, etc... To encourage more people moving there is a big mistake. Water running out faster as more people moving there. Good luck with water. No water means no life in the hot desert.
Dead pool is my favourite hero. But you have to be dead in the head to build a city in a desert. For that matter, you have to be dead in the head to build a city in a river delta, a heavy earthquake zone, in a flood plain, below sea level, below a large dam, or near a volcano that is not extinct. But are there any cities built in places like this?
For starters Hoover Dam does not feed water into lake Mead like she said in the beginning of the video… And lastly even if you waved Nevada off the map, the river would actually be there because of some 50 to 80,000,000 people who rely on Hoover dam for water and power are abusing the precious resource. In this case the SW states all need to go on a water restriction. Y’all know who ya are thinking you need a lush green yard and 10-15 showers.
Phoenix Arizona visit. Surprise to see green lawns on most houses. 2 million people? Expected to see desert motifs in front of houses. No such thing, all green.
I'd be willing to bet that if you looked at building permits for new homes that will rely on Lake Mead water......there are no serious requirements for water conservation.
Sure millions of people will just move out of the southwest but to where? The east coast to face hurricanes? The Great Lakes states had temperatures near 0 last winter and several feet of snowfall?? People will only move when they see water availability reaches a crisis point and we aren't there. Hell, a lot of people are still moving TO Phoenix and southern Arizona!! It's one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 To the Midwest rust belt. People can adapt to our winters pretty quickly. People from hotter and drier parts of this planet have no problem getting use to Midwest winters.
@@drjekelmrhyde Some perhaps most people are willing to adapt to a cold climate. But I lived in Ohio and now New Mexico and I hear from a lot of people out west that hate the cold.
What they are not telling you is that the current water level is only about 15 inches above teir2 at which point, 12 turbines will have to shut down. Bye-bye power.
I can't imagine where you get the 15 inches from, but Tier 2 was passed at 1050' and the lake is now at 1047'. In the infinite wisdom of the authorities who determine when water restrictions go in effect the Tier 2 restrictions will not go into effect until Jan 1. Or so I heard on another channel. By next January 1, the water level could drop close to or even below 1025' which is Tier 3.
A little late now! This wasn't a surprise- folks been talking about this exact issue for years but did they listen? Hell No- life continued as normal & here we are- certainly folks will be complaining about not being able to water the freaking lawn- no sympathy here
Exactly, waste not, want not. I flew over Las Vegas when I was in the military, when you look down, you see thousands of houses with swimming pools glistening in the sun and just as green as Iowa lawns, until you get away from the city, it's a dry desolate desert. Their waste of water is what should've been addressed, not yesterday, but decades ago, the only thing left for Las Vegas is that it's going to be a ghost town when the water runs out.
Apparently the government could not prevent this, although they did build the dams, and resevoirs that are now drying up.....hmmm? We cannot say that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that built the dams and lakes did not Reclaim the land ...right?! Americans must realize the US Government is the genisis of all of america's ills. The US & State Governments have dried up the west. One must take a real close look to see where the water from the Colorado and the Sierra Nevada Mountains has gone. This message that the lake levels are dropping has been spoken for a couple of decades, so what has government done? Plan for the lake levels to drop? Apparently so! according to the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Yes more and more casinos using tons of water! Everyone with their huge pools! People taking half hour showers with their rain faucets! The same people yelling about it are the same who are doing all that!
@@spoonypoon7998 to be fair, the entire state of Nevada only uses 4% of the water from the Colorado river. The majority of the water, around 58% goes to California, and 70% of Californias water goes to agriculture. For example: 18% of California’s water goes directly to grow alfalfa plants that get exported to Saudi Arabia to feed show horses. Eliminate that wasteful alfalfa growing and guess what: there will be no more water issues in the southwest. Also, I think creating a federal law, similar to Reagan’s “right to work” laws, create a right to live law. Something that would give homeowners to right to refuse to join the HOA, or leave their HOA. Then people can switch to hardscaping like they do in Phoenix, get some cactuses.
The book Deadpool written by geologist James Powell talks about the history of western water and what the future holds. He talks about the various options. He also talks about salt and silt. It was written in 2010 and so far his predictions have been spot on.
I haven’t read it but sounds interesting. I used to do watershed delineation and worked in the waters department in environmental testing lab…in 2006 or so I predicted the next Great War would be over water.
Las Vegas has the best water management in the west. I can assure you watering golf courses and running fountains with grey water is not the issue. The issue is growth in all 7 states that share the Colorado River. Read a book people.
The Colorado River dams are controlled by agricultural needs so we dump the fresh water in the dirt and drink the stored bleached fluoride program water.
It's not only the growth in population in the seven states, but also the drought of the last 22 years which has accelerated the decline in the water level. Also 70% of water in Arizona alone is for agriculture. Water intensive crops like alfalfa and cotton take a large proportion of that water. How much I don't know.
She said "you can get rid of all the ppl and still have the problem, the ppl aren't the problem"! Bs and I think we all know we've pulled to much water out for bs golf clubs, resorts, lawns etc.
@@landonfogle5903 Oh agriculture claims an average of 70% of the water used by humans, but not only that... this... "Draining Arizona: Mining For Water In The Desert Leaves Residents' Wells Dry" UA-cam video shows you the mindset of unregulated industrial farming. Not only raising crops in the desert but water-intensive crops..... to feed cows. Now, figure out that once the water is gone and all that agriculture dries up. You ain't seen inflation yet, and empty store shelves? Run a search for images regarding "land subsidence." In these images, you can argue that it has gone on for decades, but on the other hand, these aquifers will never refill again. Once they're depleted, you're dead. You may want to run a search on the "most water-intensive crops." Question: "Why in the desert if not in green states."
Interesting how predictable our modern society is. This video could very well be perfect for the Leonardo DiCaprio denial movie. Society will only react when reality knocks on their front door.
It reminded me of that movie as well. I don't know why this isn't more in the news than it is. There needs to be some major construction projects in the works right now for a long term solution. Building an intake that is lower is just a band-aid project. Instead we have things like Johny Depp's court case getting more air time. It seriously feels like a societal collapse is eminent and people just have their heads in the sand.
they been watching the water levels recede for years.while at the same time they just keep on building new homes & business as if they have unlimited supply.poor planning equals poor results.
Part of the problem is we doi have very little rain fall, or snow. The main problem is the foolish leaders keep building in the desert for more people.. Here in southern CA. we are just starting to have water restrictions. Many of our so called leaders ned to wake up. Soon we will have no water.
I believe they are going to start widespread use of Salt water through desalinization plants for California, the more populous state. You cant hope for rain to replenish Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Thinks are pretty critical.
These people are in absolute denial. As the lake recedes its going to start going faster the lower it gets. If things stay the way they are I give lake Mead less than 10 years.
that is like saying when the built it in '33 it will never fill--stupid comment--we could easily have record snowpack for the next 10 years--they said Lake Tahoe would be near empty and would take years to fill up--it took one winter of heavy snow to fill--dumb people never know anything--don't join that club,it makes you look stupid
So the solution to the falling reservoir level is to build more extraction pipes lower down to continue extracting water from the reservoir whose level is falling. Sounds like a plan! The article didn't mention any of the colossally water dependent agricultural developments.
Well there are people ( like myself) who track their power and water consumption. I don’t care that I have LED lights, I still make sure if nothing needs to be on I turn it off! It’s the other millions of people who abuse the system thinking they need lush green yards and take 10-15 minute showers. That’s just the bottom of the totem poll.
So what is being done to fix the issue? Don't talk to me about pumps to draw even more water out of that dying lake, tell me about water restrictions like "forbidden to use water for your stupid golf course or lawn or for cleaning your car with the garden hose".
The water level dropping about 5 feet per week right now. Other UA-cam Videos show the drop since last week and the week before. We will reach dead pool before the end of this summer.
that is exactly what I have observed from local youtubers filming the decline. The canyons are a funnel not a box...it's getting exponentially worse the lower it gets.
Best case scenario is 24-30 months before the 3rd inlet cannot pump water. Shortest case is about 14 months. As it drops the vertical head loss is speeding up. Next month it will be about 6' per week of loss, in 3 months it'll be over 7' a week lost. By November it may be closer to 8' a week.
@@100pyatt You are forgetting that electrical production is already down 40%. Every week, the head pressure is less and the electrical production is less than optimum. This is far more serious than anyone is willing to honestly discuss.
Back when I visited the Dam the projected life span was about 1000 years which was determined by the sediment deposited. Now or tomorrow, nothing lasts forever
How about human cat boxes? It could work like those automatic cat boxes poop wipe and scoop. You can pee down a separate tube It won't be a perfect catch but accuracy would save you money on litter. It'll kinda be a game boys will probably be better than girls so that competition will drive sales and user uptake.
God this is such an ignorant comment. You do realize adding rocks to the lake does not solve the root cause of the low water level, which is the water shortage that's causing the actual drop in water level. Adding rocks to thr lake will not solve the real problem, which is inadequate water supply in the lake.
Desalination plants require huge amounts of energy, which California is also running out of. The only solutions are to build nuclear power plants and/or reduce consumption.
@@starmc26 y and the toxins of the water enrich in the salt so you can not use it for anything --- or put even more power into it --- would it be so easy , there would be no waterproblems in fe India ............. they have toxic rain, toxic water, not enough electricity and no one has a clue how to fix any of those ........... and least they can work cheap for us -.-
This reporter was terrible so many general mistakes the damn doesn’t provide water the Colorado does and she forgot to mention that the damn provides power duh
Can’t go without that lush green lawn! Make sure you set your timer to water right at noon too! Just wanna slap some people. Don’t even get me started on big business! They waste way more water and give absolutely zero fucks about it. Go check out exactly how much water the top 5 users in the state are using it’ll make you sick! One of them is a prince from another country using a mansion as a vacation home, it’s CRANKING water hourly and no one is doing jack shit about it.
Couldn’t just leave it hanging so I went and pulled an excerpt from a random website. You can find this information for yourself it is available to the public. The top residential water user of 2020 was Spanish Gate Holdings, which used more than 12 million gallons of water. Spanish Gate Holdings is the official owner of a compound built by Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the sultan of Brunei. That’s from 2020, I imagine the usage is even worse now. The top 3 commercial users are all golf clubs, get out of here with that bullshit!
The top residential water user of 2020 was Spanish Gate Holdings, which used more than 12 million gallons of water. Spanish Gate Holdings is the official owner of a compound built by Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the sultan of Brunei.
They keep insisting it is all because of the drought. It has nothing to do with overpopulation of Las Vegas and the surrounding areas. Perfect example of how failing policies and corresponding cover up and misinterpretation can’t produce desired results. They were always about selling out, but now they ended up having oversold.
@@mrtopcat2 I know right! Then to point the finger at the tiniest water usage while ignoring people like these and big corporations. Oh wait that’s right, they have money… Hit the nail right on it’s head, you did.
@@J0shua029 OK, so let me nail it even more then; all these calls for conservation of water by residents is nothing more than calling residents to help 'cocking their books', so that they can pass environmental reviews for MORE housing to built. So essentially they are asking the publics help to temporarily reduce water consumption, that way it looks like increased population and corresponding housing development was sustainable. Then they get their permits, build more and make everything even less sustainable than before. Same thing is currently going on in California.
@@mrtopcat2 With three million new illegal immigrants, and counting , they all have to live somewhere , they insist on drinking water , and they don’t like cold wearher
They were talking about this 50 years ago and they did nothing in all that time but use even more water. Their shortsightedness should not be made a burden for everyone else.
You'd think those states that need vast amounts of water annually would have all gotten together many years ago and built desalination plants. But no short sighted states and Governors.
Ppl really should stop moving to desert SW cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix. This mega drought is only gonna continue and get worse and once water restrictions are implemented, those two will become the Detroit and Flint of the SW as jobs and ppl start to move away toward literally greener pastures.
"The hoover dam has two main functions, to stop flooding, and to store and supply water" Lol! Apparently she forgot it also has another function?? Little thing called hydro electricity??? You're only getting about 23% of your power in Vegas from the dam...
Don't forget irrigation. All those farms growing crops with irrigation systems get their water from the dams. Even if the farms use wells...Their underground aquafers are still fed by those local rivers seeping water into the ground. As surface water dies up: so to does the underground aquafers.
I know this is a big deal for those who live in the area, and since I am not one of them my opinion little matters, but I am getting awfully tired of all these news stories that keep repeating the same information. We know. We get it. The water is dropping and getting lower. This summer is gonna hurt for those who depend on it. But I don't want to hear another story until we hit that point where the turbines go offline. So much redundancy, do they think we forget about the situation every night?
I think it's more of they're trying to get the point across and reiterate just how dire the water shortage situation is. Many people are just hoping it will magically go away. It's not going away. And when the water level drops below a critical level, the turbines stop spinning. Guess what happens then? NO MORE ELECTRICITY! WHat do you expect will happen when 150 million people are out of a) water, and b) electricity? Yep, you guess it: they start dying. In large quantities. When people start dying quickly, panic sets in. And then you have major problems. As in: people resort to violence when they are desperate for water resources because their family is dying of dehydration. So maybe don't dismiss the issue so casually.
@@RedShipsofSpainAgain I'm not "dismissing the issue", I understand the consequences of this drought. I'm annoyed with all these repeated news releases that give little to no new information. If it's not new, it's not "news", and although I see your point on drilling in the issue, I am still annoyed about it.
Oh and 90% or more of you with swimming pools probably use that shit once a year!!! My neighbor just had a huge ass pool installed. Looks to be 100k+ project. I haven't seen a single person from this guy's household in that pool still.
Nothing wrong about playing on a sandy golf course. Just line the putting area with pretty pebble rocks just like the city does along the interstate. What's wrong with that?
Can’t be solved without desalination on Pacific Ocean water. They know it but play kick the can with various fake solutions and saying we all have to be part of the solution. WTF It’s borderline funny.
I don't think building a deeper intake valve which still sucks water out of the lake to provide for people downstream and for the city of Las Vegas is doing any kind of conserving whatsoever.
this isn't good for my global warming science project so we can convince everyone to pay karbon taxes. what should i tell them? also - what should i tell them is about to be discovered at the Hoover Dam?
@@stevew5212 well YES! Utah has by the treaty 1/5 of the quota of the water. They never even used close to this number and now they want to use it! thats why water is held back in lake powell now !!!! Its Utahs water ! You stole water from your own people for decades now !
They keep saying we in water emergency that the water levels are terrible but yet there are golf course throughout Las Vegas that use millions of gallon for people to play a game how bad can it truly be
Well all the ones on the strip at the Wynn and the lake at the Bellagio and a few others are all on their own water grids and use a combo of waste water, well water and dew collection on the steam out takes on their power plants.
@@lt4324 not just well water. Actually it’s kinda hard to see at night but if you look at the Wynn golf course from above for instance they got dew nets.
Las Vegas existing is a big reason why this is happening. A artificial big city in the middle of the desert is not logical. Las Vegas should never have been built.
maybe they need to go into the hills where the run off occurs and repair the land so any rain water will be absorbed into the ground, many desert countries are using techniques to restore desert land to useful lands again by preventing as much runoff as possible, the water table will rise and springs and rivers will return
The Mojave is unbelievably dry. I grew up there and it has slowly been getting dryer over the years. Even the desert plants aren’t surviving. I went back last year after being away for years and was taken back at how dry it was. It was a bit depressing to be honest.
That goes against DC's one-size-fits-all land management guidelines. But it can be done. Some ranchers were working with their local bureau of land management office to get vegetation growing in the desert, but the BLM office was told to "get these people under control" though they were, more likely because they were, successful.
you have zero knowledge where the water comes from--IT IS NOT RAIN WATER!!! it starts in wyoming,utah as snow--rain is near zero----the colorado river used to go straight to the ocean--it a very snowy year the melt destroyed everything with runoff -the dams help control that--there is about 6 dams on the river--the people making comments on here are dumb as can be
Want a green lawn? want a nice golf course? Join me here in the North east and mid west! where water falls from the sky (can you believe it!?) and you never have to water an established lawn.
In Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, their leaders for years have made the investments to transform seawater into a steady supply of water for their populations in cities on the Persian Gulf from Doha to Dubai. No other region on Earth desalinates as much water. Why can't we do that? Oh yeah, I forgot...greed.
This has been going on for 20 years. It's NOT due to a few year drought. I was married in Vegas in 2006 and it was down 80 feet even then. Too many people live there. Better to move now, because that place is going dry.
Interesting. What energy source will power the pumps? Presumably the generators on the dam. Electricity output is already down about a third at Hoover due to lower water levels and will decrease further if the drought continues.
40 to 80 billion dollars have been sent to Ukraine and more very soon however not one penny to help build a desalination plant to provide water to the great folks of Nevada.
Still can't figure out how my conservation of water in Tennessee is going to help people out west. I can dig a hole 3 ft in the ground and get water here.
I’m out west. Drink up brother! Your probably safe until these dumbasses want to lay yet another big pipe lol! A monkey could manage water better than we do here.
None of the Experts have any first hand experience and by definition are not Experts. All they can do is report current statistics and anyone can do that. Hope is their only tool as the problem reaches critical stage.
The best solution is one of economics. The cost of water is still cheap enough for people to be wasteful and the government to have to mandate people reduce consumption. If you increase the price to buy the water, people will then be encouraged to reduce consumption on their own (by watering their lawn less or investing in more water efficient appliances). I doubt anyone would say yes to that as it directly raises the cost of living (making an essential part of life more expensive) and would lead to decreased economic activity. Farms might not grow as much (but should they even be farming in a desert to start with), factories might not produce as much, et c. or they pass the cost on and keep operating as normal.
If only there was another place to get water from. All I hear about is the oceans are rising to there highest levels. So take the water from the ocean filter out the salt and use that to fill the lake back up. Either truck the water in or build a pipe line. California should be getting its water from the ocean already its right there.
Established practices and consumption levels needed to change, decades ago. We are seeing the catastrophe of increasing consumption alongside a significant shift in climate patterns towards reduced rainfall and snowpack in this watershed. Capitalist profit motives, denial of what is obvious, and an unwillingness to change are all pushing this towards a terrible outcome. The widespread willingness to do what is legal, rather than what is sensible and appropriate fuels the problem even more so. And finally government bureaucratic inertia stifles local attempts to adopt sensible water restrictions. What will this situation look like in twenty years? Who will be left? What will these cities and communities that depend on current consumption levels look like? What forms of agriculture will still be in use? And, where will all of these climate refugees go, when the wells runs dry?
The red states will build walls to keep the refugees out, or just minorities and pro-choice people, and anyone who disagrees with their ideology, including their own family members.
And Mexico will pay?... An actual wall seems unlikely, but a large toll plaza/immigration inspection station to weed out undesirables on all the major roads into the state. I'm sure that idea will be floated around in some state legislatures when the time comes.
The dam was once a bucket list destination and Vegas a sideshow. Not so much now. Maybe if I venture to the Grand Canyon. IDK East of the Mississippi is nice and wet.
Lol. Capitalism has nothing to do with it. Look at communist China. They try to cram even more people in cities and have even more problems as a result. Same with North Korea. The capitalist approach would be to build desalination plants and charge more for that water to cover the costs. A tiered billing system basically. Its the socialist aproach of keeping prices low when supply is low that leads to shortages because there is no incentive to reduce use aside from forced rationing. This applies to everything from water, to energy and housing.
Dont Worry Guys.... When they say the Lake won't dry up "Not in our Life Times" - That means like next year.
Maybe they're saying they expect us all to die this year.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Short sighted politicians have been ignoring the warnings since the late 80's early 90's and call for more and denser development of an area that was never meant to support such a large population.
The problem with allocating water that doesn't exist.
@@irocker350 They've been ignoring the warnings since the 1880's.
Spend 2 billion on a stadium but have water issues….yeah ok. Get it together
Oh come on Pro Football is more important than having water in the middle of the Desert 😉
And they want to build another one for the NBA beyond ridiculous
Vegas doesn't have water issues.
@@starmc26 do you watch the news? Have you seen lake Meade ?
@@444truthteller Vegas doesn't get water from Lake Mead.
Dead Pool is when bodies in barrels appear
Who would have thought colonizing the desert wouldn't have been sustainable?
Israel made it work.
@@AMPProf Israel uses 74 gallons per person per day Utah 244. Israel treats water as the precious resource it is. The southwest acts like there is an endless supply.
Starry eyed dreamers in the land of plenty. Before the invasion.
@@AMPProf If they had more Americans it wouldn't.
Israel has huge desalination plants.
This was an issue when I lived out there in 1992. You figure that they would have fixed this problem by now. Really that problem is building in the west. Just stop the building. No water, no building.
This was NOT an issue in 1992. The lake has NEVER BEEN this low since it was originally created.
It was always a news story on the local Vegas networks. There were some major scares over the years with various droughts and the resulting issues on the restrictions on building. But you are right, it has never been this bad.
Yes, in 1992 they were building like mad. I remember being an insurance salesperson by day and a security guard by night. I would drive around and have to find new streets to service existing customers and then sit in new construction developments as a guard at night. So I was always buying new maps of the area. Often I would go to an area that I haven't been to in 3 months and it would be all built up. It was so shocking. The issue of water in Lake Mead was always an issue as permits were needed to build in Vegas. The construction would stop because of the lack of water, or that the water level and drought caused Mead to drop. It was ALWAYS a news story out there. Because people would lose their jobs in construction. The industry would find some stupid reason that they could conserve water, the government would then issue more permits, and of course the water problem continued. Drought years: 2007-09, 1987-92, 1976-77.
So your saying democrats should put the millions of illegals somewhere else? This is how our torn to shreds social safety nets will be dealt with too - too little too late.
Las Vegas the time to migrate away from a catastrophe is now not later. If you wait until dead pool you won't have the opportunity to migrate.
Totally agreed. We are leaving New Mexico in September and won't look back. In my town data shows we can have "adequate" water for 50,000. The City Council just got some $$$$$ from Pulte to build MORE HOMES. Add in fires all around and life here is dying faster than you can say - DEAD TREES.
Musical chairs.
Buyers market and no buyers.
My state, (California) bears the most responsibility for killing the Colorado.
23 million people south of the Santa Barbara County line on the edge of two great deserts that stretch all the way to Texas.
But, among other things, lawns and golf courses still going full speed.
Ugh, don’t get me started on golf courses in the desert. There is a reason the sport was invented in Scotland and not SW U.S.
Not that I play, but golf courses are not the problem here, not compared to Big Ag growing shit like almonds and using up the groundwater for big $$.
Remember, 'Privatize the Profits and Socialize the Loses'.
Not to mention all of the illegal aliens using water
@@butcho7492 Absolutely.
Sw area irrigated the desert with water that had to be piped in from natural sources. I’m glad they are finally suffering from their arrogance. Southern California refuses to build desalination plants with and endless resource “the Pacific Ocean” and instead want to divert the Mississippi River so they can continue their wasteful practices. Have fun with your lack of water, but continue to build golf courses for the rich and grow crops in the desert.
Shut down the golf courses including shutting off water until the crisis is over. LV makes plenty of money without it.
Wow another idiot uneducated remark.
There was a reason the natives never built a village in Las Vegas Area!
I agree!! How many golf courses are watered everyday with this water👍
We have solutions. We just have people saying no to them! it's either we do something-&-stay or nothing-&-Leave!!
@@wileybird69 unfortunately it's the casino resorts!
The second you realize this isn’t a political issue the second we start making progress. This is mismanagement, if this doesn’t explain our government in a nutshell nothing will, both sides are evil and need to no longer exist.
I’ve been wondering myself if the government would ever drain lake Meade for the hell of it to cause an issue in order to have another agenda to run on?
@@blakejohnson3864 It's mismanagement in that the CO river project involving MEAD and Powell wasn't thought about or planned out long term. This was never going to work long term. They should've been on top of this after forming Powell. If you're going to reroute and damn water (especially in a desert) you have to plan for perpetuity.
We need “problems” ..so public “reacts “ demanding “solutions” which gives power, money, jobs to the solution saveys…. go Brandon, ahh, Bartleby, ahh, Humanity
Agreed
I Agree Obiden
Tax the rich and drain Lake Las Vegas
We can continue to deliver water until Lake Mead is a mud puddle……..and then what?
Forget oil & gas pipelines. Fresh water pipelines will be the next big thing.
At least if they burst, the land and water won't be contaminated for years after
Well oil,gas,mining ect made mississippi and great lake water NOT SAFE TO DRINK! Fresh is somewhat different .....
From where? Don't come looking east, so you can fark up our environments with your gluttony.
Stop building in the desert! None of that water should go to golf course or watering residential grass.
Building in the desert. Bright idea. No sympathy here. Thank god for the great lakes around my area. No dead pool here.
Well yeah, that’s because you Midwest people are so much smarter than everyone else.
Yeah. Lots of water but can you drink it ?
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 I live where there is water how about you?
@@herbertbrown119 It's fresh water. I think I'd rather drink it untreated than the Colorado untreated.
@@steven4315 The Colorado is runoff from mountains. The Great Lakes are runoff from cities
Building cities in a desert was probably the first mistake.
Did anyone else hear a single solution or plan to combat this issue? No? Me either.
lol yeah good point....i agree.....at best the MSM exposes problems but never contributes to solutions.....ever.
No, they won't say overpopulation in the las Vegas Nevada valley. No, can't do that. Too many people, not enough water. Ripping out all lawns, trees, plants, swimming pools, jacuzzis, water falls, fountains, whatever won't solve the problem. It might delay doomsday dead pool in 2025. But problem still there. Keep building homes, apartments, etc... To encourage more people moving there is a big mistake. Water running out faster as more people moving there. Good luck with water. No water means no life in the hot desert.
I didn’t hear anything specific
Pres Joe Biden Ned wrote order make Michigan pipe water from there Lake Michigan they hording water make they pumping pipe to Meade thanks you
@@lotsofthisandthat9791 no.
The Hover Dam dose not supply water to lake Mead. It dams the Colorado river.
Dead pool is my favourite hero. But you have to be dead in the head to build a city in a desert. For that matter, you have to be dead in the head to build a city in a river delta, a heavy earthquake zone, in a flood plain, below sea level, below a large dam, or near a volcano that is not extinct. But are there any cities built in places like this?
For starters Hoover Dam does not feed water into lake Mead like she said in the beginning of the video… And lastly even if you waved Nevada off the map, the river would actually be there because of some 50 to 80,000,000 people who rely on Hoover dam for water and power are abusing the precious resource. In this case the SW states all need to go on a water restriction. Y’all know who ya are thinking you need a lush green yard and 10-15 showers.
Boosie living standards.. sorry
Yeah having non native grasses that require frequent watering for that HOA look is such a waste.
Are you telling me that the Government should not have waited until 75% of the water was gone before enacting the first round of restrictions ?
Phoenix Arizona visit. Surprise to see green lawns on most houses. 2 million people?
Expected to see desert motifs in front of houses. No such thing, all green.
It's an election year name me a politician that wants to be the guy who shut the water off and is known for that
I'd be willing to bet that if you looked at building permits for new homes that will rely on Lake Mead water......there are no serious requirements for water conservation.
This issue is not on the backs of the residential sector, but is on the agricultural industry.
Thats ok then.
maybe, it's time to move where there is more water.
Sure millions of people will just move out of the southwest but to where? The east coast to face hurricanes? The Great Lakes states had temperatures near 0 last winter and several feet of snowfall?? People will only move when they see water availability reaches a crisis point and we aren't there. Hell, a lot of people are still moving TO Phoenix and southern Arizona!! It's one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
That would be the smart move.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 To the Midwest rust belt. People can adapt to our winters pretty quickly. People from hotter and drier parts of this planet have no problem getting use to Midwest winters.
@@drjekelmrhyde Some perhaps most people are willing to adapt to a cold climate. But I lived in Ohio and now New Mexico and I hear from a lot of people out west that hate the cold.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 mexico
What they are not telling you is that the current water level is only about 15 inches above teir2 at which point, 12 turbines will have to shut down. Bye-bye power.
I can't imagine where you get the 15 inches from, but Tier 2 was passed at 1050' and the lake is now at 1047'. In the infinite wisdom of the authorities who determine when water restrictions go in effect the Tier 2 restrictions will not go into effect until Jan 1. Or so I heard on another channel. By next January 1, the water level could drop close to or even below 1025' which is Tier 3.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 thank you. You're correct. Guess I need to do better research. 😁
950 the rest go offline
The water could be syphoned into the intake tubes. This would work as long as the outlet of the hose is lower than the water level.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 why not enforce restrictions now before it gets that bad? It is mind blowing.
A little late now! This wasn't a surprise- folks been talking about this exact issue for years but did they listen? Hell No- life continued as normal & here we are- certainly folks will be complaining about not being able to water the freaking lawn- no sympathy here
Exactly, waste not, want not. I flew over Las Vegas when I was in the military, when you look down, you see thousands of houses with swimming pools glistening in the sun and just as green as Iowa lawns, until you get away from the city, it's a dry desolate desert. Their waste of water is what should've been addressed, not yesterday, but decades ago, the only thing left for Las Vegas is that it's going to be a ghost town when the water runs out.
Apparently the government could not prevent this, although they did build the dams, and resevoirs that are now drying up.....hmmm?
We cannot say that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that built the dams and lakes did not Reclaim the land ...right?!
Americans must realize the US Government is the genisis of all of america's ills.
The US & State Governments have dried up the west.
One must take a real close look to see where the water from the Colorado and the Sierra Nevada Mountains has gone.
This message that the lake levels are dropping has been spoken for a couple of decades, so what has government done?
Plan for the lake levels to drop? Apparently so! according to the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Yes more and more casinos using tons of water! Everyone with their huge pools! People taking half hour showers with their rain faucets! The same people yelling about it are the same who are doing all that!
@@spoonypoon7998 to be fair, the entire state of Nevada only uses 4% of the water from the Colorado river. The majority of the water, around 58% goes to California, and 70% of Californias water goes to agriculture. For example: 18% of California’s water goes directly to grow alfalfa plants that get exported to Saudi Arabia to feed show horses. Eliminate that wasteful alfalfa growing and guess what: there will be no more water issues in the southwest.
Also, I think creating a federal law, similar to Reagan’s “right to work” laws, create a right to live law. Something that would give homeowners to right to refuse to join the HOA, or leave their HOA. Then people can switch to hardscaping like they do in Phoenix, get some cactuses.
@@andrewa5077 you have no clue
The book Deadpool written by geologist James Powell talks about the history of western water and what the future holds. He talks about the various options. He also talks about salt and silt. It was written in 2010 and so far his predictions have been spot on.
Lake Powell is dropping water levels as well I have heard. Thanks for the comment 👍
The dam water is amniotic fluid. Look up “Pregnant Goat Woman of the West Coast”. Folks have no idea how far they’ve been led astray in this “life”...
If ocean water is take
Eventually it will be
Like the Dead Sea...
It’s then end of the
World as you know it..
Nowhere to run nowhere to hide..
@@isartoraplatz learn to swim
I haven’t read it but sounds interesting. I used to do watershed delineation and worked in the waters department in environmental testing lab…in 2006 or so I predicted the next Great War would be over water.
Las Vegas has the best water management in the west. I can assure you watering golf courses and running fountains with grey water is not the issue. The issue is growth in all 7 states that share the Colorado River. Read a book people.
The Colorado River dams are controlled by agricultural needs so we dump the fresh water in the dirt and drink the stored bleached fluoride program water.
Golf courses need to use recycled water if they want to remain in Vegas. It’s a desert they need to except that.
It's not only the growth in population in the seven states, but also the drought of the last 22 years which has accelerated the decline in the water level. Also 70% of water in Arizona alone is for agriculture. Water intensive crops like alfalfa and cotton take a large proportion of that water. How much I don't know.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 the cia only allows zombies breed or raise children in a way Jesus, Nikola Tesla and Bruce Lee were not
I agree, increasing demand for more water, while shifts in rainfall patterns provides less to fill the reservoirs.
She said "you can get rid of all the ppl and still have the problem, the ppl aren't the problem"! Bs and I think we all know we've pulled to much water out for bs golf clubs, resorts, lawns etc.
May be the contributing factors but the real culprit is agriculture.
@@alainarchambault2331 well you have to eat don't you? It's all the people in the desert trying to water their yard and golf courses
@@landonfogle5903 Oh agriculture claims an average of 70% of the water used by humans, but not only that... this...
"Draining Arizona: Mining For Water In The Desert Leaves Residents' Wells Dry"
UA-cam video shows you the mindset of unregulated industrial farming. Not only raising crops in the desert but water-intensive crops..... to feed cows.
Now, figure out that once the water is gone and all that agriculture dries up. You ain't seen inflation yet, and empty store shelves?
Run a search for images regarding "land subsidence." In these images, you can argue that it has gone on for decades, but on the other hand, these aquifers will never refill again. Once they're depleted, you're dead.
You may want to run a search on the "most water-intensive crops." Question: "Why in the desert if not in green states."
If all the people were gone that lake would be full . It’s common sense
Interesting how predictable our modern society is. This video could very well be perfect for the Leonardo DiCaprio denial movie. Society will only react when reality knocks on their front door.
It reminded me of that movie as well. I don't know why this isn't more in the news than it is. There needs to be some major construction projects in the works right now for a long term solution. Building an intake that is lower is just a band-aid project. Instead we have things like Johny Depp's court case getting more air time. It seriously feels like a societal collapse is eminent and people just have their heads in the sand.
If water cost more that gas we would not have this problem......it definat
Stop living where it's too hot to sustain communities and grow crops, solved.
I'm being told not to take a shower or flush my toilet, while big ag grows almonds, corn and alfalfa in the desert.
they been watching the water levels recede for years.while at the same time they just keep on building new homes & business as if they have unlimited supply.poor planning equals poor results.
And in other areas, the opposite is happening - they keep building close to the sea in areas which may be underwater in 30 years! It's mad!
@@welshgit Yikes stupidity
Part of the problem is we doi have very little rain fall, or snow. The main problem is the foolish leaders keep building in the desert for more people.. Here in southern CA. we are just starting to have water restrictions. Many of our so called leaders ned to wake up. Soon we will have no water.
The should have a tiered billing structure that make it super expensive above a certain amount, then use that money to fund desalination projects.
I believe they are going to start widespread use of Salt water through desalinization plants for California, the more populous state. You cant hope for rain to replenish Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Thinks are pretty critical.
The voters said no to the desalinization plans
Got to keep the pools full and the grass green i Cali!
That lady is wrong. The river didn’t have any problems until humans decided to dam it. Now it barely makes it to the Gulf of California.
and people back then said "this will never work".
Couldn't happen to a nicer city.
Stop building subdivisions, golf courses, vineyards, etc. in a freaking dessert! Maybe start there? Duh!
These people are in absolute denial. As the lake recedes its going to start going faster the lower it gets. If things stay the way they are I give lake Mead less than 10 years.
It’s at an average of 3-4 inches a day
I was actually thinking 5 years , but 10 is probably correct.
that is like saying when the built it in '33 it will never fill--stupid comment--we could easily have record snowpack for the next 10 years--they said Lake Tahoe would be near empty and would take years to fill up--it took one winter of heavy snow to fill--dumb people never know anything--don't join that club,it makes you look stupid
So the solution to the falling reservoir level is to build more extraction pipes lower down to continue extracting water from the reservoir whose level is falling. Sounds like a plan!
The article didn't mention any of the colossally water dependent agricultural developments.
I don’t feel sorry for anyone out west! They knew they were going to have a big problem at least 10 years ago! Yet they didn’t do anything about it.
Well there are people ( like myself) who track their power and water consumption. I don’t care that I have LED lights, I still make sure if nothing needs to be on I turn it off! It’s the other millions of people who abuse the system thinking they need lush green yards and take 10-15 minute showers. That’s just the bottom of the totem poll.
Make that 30 years ago. Troubling then, very scary now.
Not being in the west will not prevent you from the issues this will cause nationwide
You’re telling me that Nevada, the place of pools and golf courses isn’t effecting this issue? I call BS.
not really. no. most water goes to az an cal
Maybe restrict growth for awhile.. but they wont do that, to much money to be made.
Maybe free condoms?
So what is being done to fix the issue? Don't talk to me about pumps to draw even more water out of that dying lake, tell me about water restrictions like "forbidden to use water for your stupid golf course or lawn or for cleaning your car with the garden hose".
The water level dropping about 5 feet per week right now. Other UA-cam Videos show the drop since last week and the week before.
We will reach dead pool before the end of this summer.
that is exactly what I have observed from local youtubers filming the decline. The canyons are a funnel not a box...it's getting exponentially worse the lower it gets.
Best case scenario is 24-30 months before the 3rd inlet cannot pump water. Shortest case is about 14 months. As it drops the vertical head loss is speeding up. Next month it will be about 6' per week of loss, in 3 months it'll be over 7' a week lost. By November it may be closer to 8' a week.
@@100pyatt You are forgetting that electrical production is already down 40%. Every week, the head pressure is less and the electrical production is less than optimum. This is far more serious than anyone is willing to honestly discuss.
It's like something from the Bible, where nobody prayed for rain so there wasn't any...
Back when I visited the Dam the projected life span was about 1000 years which was determined by the sediment deposited. Now or tomorrow, nothing lasts forever
thats for the concrete structure, the water will go very soon. but hey atleast the dam its self will last atleast 1000 years, if not more.
How about human cat boxes? It could work like those automatic cat boxes poop wipe and scoop. You can pee down a separate tube It won't be a perfect catch but accuracy would save you money on litter. It'll kinda be a game boys will probably be better than girls so that competition will drive sales and user uptake.
Just blast more rocks down into the lake to raise the water level. Problem solved. It’s hard being a super hero.
God this is such an ignorant comment.
You do realize adding rocks to the lake does not solve the root cause of the low water level, which is the water shortage that's causing the actual drop in water level.
Adding rocks to thr lake will not solve the real problem, which is inadequate water supply in the lake.
@@RedShipsofSpainAgain I think you missed the sarcasm. If it's a water supply problem, maybe blast water down into the lake? ;)
We already do that with toilet tanks.
Stop the use of grass in landscaping in a desert .
Might be time to find a way to build distilation stations along the cali coast
Desalination plants require huge amounts of energy, which California is also running out of. The only solutions are to build nuclear power plants and/or reduce consumption.
@@slappy8941 And they produce huge quantities of waste salt, which can't go back in the ocean.
You making booze??.. it's called a "DESALINATION" facility.
@@starmc26 y and the toxins of the water enrich in the salt so you can not use it for anything --- or put even more power into it --- would it be so easy , there would be no waterproblems in fe India ............. they have toxic rain, toxic water, not enough electricity and no one has a clue how to fix any of those ........... and least they can work cheap for us -.-
If you rely on that water to live, you better move east before it's too late.
Start getting ice from asteroids, now!!
Yet all those states are still building houses like mad.
This reporter was terrible so many general mistakes the damn doesn’t provide water the Colorado does and she forgot to mention that the damn provides power duh
So she said absolutely nothing
@ $5 a gallon for gas,,,, it's pretty hard to relocate. Wait until it reaches $6 and then move.
We are at 5.30 and 5.70 in Michigan today.
Can’t go without that lush green lawn! Make sure you set your timer to water right at noon too!
Just wanna slap some people. Don’t even get me started on big business! They waste way more water and give absolutely zero fucks about it. Go check out exactly how much water the top 5 users in the state are using it’ll make you sick! One of them is a prince from another country using a mansion as a vacation home, it’s CRANKING water hourly and no one is doing jack shit about it.
Couldn’t just leave it hanging so I went and pulled an excerpt from a random website. You can find this information for yourself it is available to the public.
The top residential water user of 2020 was Spanish Gate Holdings, which used more than 12 million gallons of water. Spanish Gate Holdings is the official owner of a compound built by Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the sultan of Brunei.
That’s from 2020, I imagine the usage is even worse now.
The top 3 commercial users are all golf clubs, get out of here with that bullshit!
The top residential water user of 2020 was Spanish Gate Holdings, which used more than 12 million gallons of water. Spanish Gate Holdings is the official owner of a compound built by Prince Jefri Bolkiah, brother of the sultan of Brunei.
They keep insisting it is all because of the drought. It has nothing to do with overpopulation of Las Vegas and the surrounding areas. Perfect example of how failing policies and corresponding cover up and misinterpretation can’t produce desired results. They were always about selling out, but now they ended up having oversold.
@@mrtopcat2 I know right! Then to point the finger at the tiniest water usage while ignoring people like these and big corporations. Oh wait that’s right, they have money…
Hit the nail right on it’s head, you did.
@@J0shua029 OK, so let me nail it even more then; all these calls for conservation of water by residents is nothing more than calling residents to help 'cocking their books', so that they can pass environmental reviews for MORE housing to built. So essentially they are asking the publics help to temporarily reduce water consumption, that way it looks like increased population and corresponding housing development was sustainable. Then they get their permits, build more and make everything even less sustainable than before. Same thing is currently going on in California.
@@mrtopcat2 With three million new illegal immigrants, and counting , they all have to live somewhere , they insist on drinking water , and they don’t like cold wearher
@@mrtopcat2 I’ve never even thought of that.
Meanwhile in Las Vegas
Building more homes, hotels, Condos and a few more casinos for good measure. Smh!
Las Vegas only uses 4% of the water while California uses 51%
They were talking about this 50 years ago and they did nothing in all that time but use even more water.
Their shortsightedness should not be made a burden for everyone else.
You'd think those states that need vast amounts of water annually would have all gotten together many years ago and built desalination plants. But no short sighted states and Governors.
You mean democrats.
It is dropping faster, these people are incompetent
Ppl really should stop moving to desert SW cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix. This mega drought is only gonna continue and get worse and once water restrictions are implemented, those two will become the Detroit and Flint of the SW as jobs and ppl start to move away toward literally greener pastures.
"The hoover dam has two main functions, to stop flooding, and to store and supply water" Lol! Apparently she forgot it also has another function?? Little thing called hydro electricity??? You're only getting about 23% of your power in Vegas from the dam...
Right….and that also impacts the siltation.
Don't forget irrigation. All those farms growing crops with irrigation systems get their water from the dams. Even if the farms use wells...Their underground aquafers are still fed by those local rivers seeping water into the ground. As surface water dies up: so to does the underground aquafers.
People who water the grass/yard may be insane
I know this is a big deal for those who live in the area, and since I am not one of them my opinion little matters, but I am getting awfully tired of all these news stories that keep repeating the same information. We know. We get it. The water is dropping and getting lower. This summer is gonna hurt for those who depend on it. But I don't want to hear another story until we hit that point where the turbines go offline. So much redundancy, do they think we forget about the situation every night?
If you buy vegetables in America at the grocery store it’s your problem.
I think it's more of they're trying to get the point across and reiterate just how dire the water shortage situation is. Many people are just hoping it will magically go away. It's not going away. And when the water level drops below a critical level, the turbines stop spinning. Guess what happens then? NO MORE ELECTRICITY! WHat do you expect will happen when 150 million people are out of a) water, and b) electricity? Yep, you guess it: they start dying. In large quantities. When people start dying quickly, panic sets in. And then you have major problems. As in: people resort to violence when they are desperate for water resources because their family is dying of dehydration.
So maybe don't dismiss the issue so casually.
@@RedShipsofSpainAgain I'm not "dismissing the issue", I understand the consequences of this drought. I'm annoyed with all these repeated news releases that give little to no new information. If it's not new, it's not "news", and although I see your point on drilling in the issue, I am still annoyed about it.
Some are off, more will be off soon, and soon this issue will not be just big, but huge.
I find by ignoring a problem it sometimes goes away an is never a problem again , and you wonder why we worry at all 🥱.
Oh and 90% or more of you with swimming pools probably use that shit once a year!!! My neighbor just had a huge ass pool installed. Looks to be 100k+ project. I haven't seen a single person from this guy's household in that pool still.
the problem is to much need and to much greed. 😕 JMHO
Could happen in our lifetimes? What a joke. It’s going to happen. Very soon.
Nothing wrong about playing on a sandy golf course. Just line the putting area with pretty pebble rocks just like the city does along the interstate. What's wrong with that?
We play Rez-golf in northeast Montana, middle of the badlands. We just carry a piece of AstroTurf with us and hit from that. Still loads of fun.
Nevada usage is a total of about 5%-California
is the biggest drag
Can’t be solved without desalination on Pacific Ocean water. They know it but play kick the can with various fake solutions and saying we all have to be part of the solution. WTF It’s borderline funny.
I don't think building a deeper intake valve which still sucks water out of the lake to provide for people downstream and for the city of Las Vegas is doing any kind of conserving whatsoever.
There is plenty of water, the issue is Government managing the water or anything else for that matter.
When the water level is so low that only our intake works, we should just take our allocation and let California worry about how they will get theirs.
If you don't think the city of Las Vegas is doing water conservation obviously you don't live here. 🙄
@@SmedleyWarIsaRacket Let's sell the Colorado river to Blackrock. They will manage it for a profit and pay a royalty to the US government.
@@sexygeek8996 Supreme Court says California has senior water rights, They had better lawyers.
This video provides everyone in the SW United States with important information about the future of Lake Mead and water supply. Good video!
It's a desert....
They're lying lake Mead is almost dried up
this isn't good for my global warming science project so we can convince everyone to pay karbon taxes. what should i tell them? also - what should i tell them is about to be discovered at the Hoover Dam?
The problem is the people "in charge" of the dam and water flow are not held accountable. They just blame the weather......
That's a bureaucracy based thousands of miles away from, and with no accountability to, the people its decisions most affect, for ya.
What part of less rain and snow dont you understand?
@@stevew5212 or the fact that theres a huge water theft problem 🤔
@@brainblast9363 do you have FACTS of thief or are you just reciting Qanon stuff?
@@stevew5212 well YES! Utah has by the treaty 1/5 of the quota of the water. They never even used close to this number and now they want to use it! thats why water is held back in lake powell now !!!! Its Utahs water ! You stole water from your own people for decades now !
You realize they posed no solution other than “the pump is lower so we can tap the very bottom of the lake now”
They keep saying we in water emergency that the water levels are terrible but yet there are golf course throughout Las Vegas that use millions of gallon for people to play a game how bad can it truly be
Well all the ones on the strip at the Wynn and the lake at the Bellagio and a few others are all on their own water grids and use a combo of waste water, well water and dew collection on the steam out takes on their power plants.
@@MH-eu1dr correct, not many know most hotels on the strip use well water.
@@lt4324 not just well water. Actually it’s kinda hard to see at night but if you look at the Wynn golf course from above for instance they got dew nets.
That's how stupid they are lol running out of water? Oh well golf course brings in tons of $$. Dips shits
Las Vegas existing is a big reason why this is happening. A artificial big city in the middle of the desert is not logical. Las Vegas should never have been built.
maybe they need to go into the hills where the run off occurs and repair the land so any rain water will be absorbed into the ground, many desert countries are using techniques to restore desert land to useful lands again by preventing as much runoff as possible, the water table will rise and springs and rivers will return
I saw a youtube video of a guy in west Texas who did exactly that on his land!
The Mojave is unbelievably dry. I grew up there and it has slowly been getting dryer over the years. Even the desert plants aren’t surviving. I went back last year after being away for years and was taken back at how dry it was. It was a bit depressing to be honest.
That goes against DC's one-size-fits-all land management guidelines.
But it can be done.
Some ranchers were working with their local bureau of land management office to get vegetation growing in the desert, but the BLM office was told to "get these people under control" though they were, more likely because they were, successful.
@@scotcoon1186
Nothing is going to grow in the desert surrounding Las Vegas and Lake Mead without irrigation. There’s no rain to absorb.
you have zero knowledge where the water comes from--IT IS NOT RAIN WATER!!! it starts in wyoming,utah as snow--rain is near zero----the colorado river used to go straight to the ocean--it a very snowy year the melt destroyed everything with runoff -the dams help control that--there is about 6 dams on the river--the people making comments on here are dumb as can be
Biggest low hanging fruit are golf courses, fountains, swimming pools and lawns.
Want a green lawn? want a nice golf course? Join me here in the North east and mid west! where water falls from the sky (can you believe it!?) and you never have to water an established lawn.
In Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, their leaders for years have made the investments to transform seawater into a steady supply of water for their populations in cities on the Persian Gulf from Doha to Dubai. No other region on Earth desalinates as much water. Why can't we do that? Oh yeah, I forgot...greed.
That's why you don't over populate & expect mother nature to accommodate you!
This has been going on for 20 years. It's NOT due to a few year drought. I was married in Vegas in 2006 and it was down 80 feet even then. Too many people live there. Better to move now, because that place is going dry.
Does California even bother investing in desalination ? All that ocean water they could use.
Interesting. What energy source will power the pumps? Presumably the generators on the dam. Electricity output is already down about a third at Hoover due to lower water levels and will decrease further if the drought continues.
they are causing it;!!
O'Biden
Less now with a transformer exploding a few days ago.
40 to 80 billion dollars have been sent to Ukraine and more very soon however not one penny to help build a desalination plant to provide water to the great folks of Nevada.
Still can't figure out how my conservation of water in Tennessee is going to help people out west. I can dig a hole 3 ft in the ground and get water here.
N o probs f em
I’m out west. Drink up brother! Your probably safe until these dumbasses want to lay yet another big pipe lol! A monkey could manage water better than we do here.
@@J0shua029 Oh they won’t trust me, our state governments won’t allow that it’s already been proposed back in the 80s and they got a big ass hell no.
Screw California!
@@rackss1661 Same here in Montana, California proposed that back then too, and was told hell no too
NO MORE CANIBUS. USE FOR FOOD
How you going to keep the "American peasant" not paying attention except by smoking?
I wish we could send some of the rain that we keep getting here in the Pacific Northwest. Argh, so tired of it...
Knock on wood! Lest we regret what we wish for =)
Yes I live in Olympia and I never get dry!!!!!!!
People in the South West will drink you guys dry and still keep adding more people/ag/water hungry companies there.
None of the Experts have any first hand experience and by definition are not Experts. All they can do is report current statistics and anyone can do that. Hope is their only tool as the problem reaches critical stage.
The best solution is one of economics. The cost of water is still cheap enough for people to be wasteful and the government to have to mandate people reduce consumption. If you increase the price to buy the water, people will then be encouraged to reduce consumption on their own (by watering their lawn less or investing in more water efficient appliances). I doubt anyone would say yes to that as it directly raises the cost of living (making an essential part of life more expensive) and would lead to decreased economic activity. Farms might not grow as much (but should they even be farming in a desert to start with), factories might not produce as much, et c. or they pass the cost on and keep operating as normal.
If only there was another place to get water from. All I hear about is the oceans are rising to there highest levels. So take the water from the ocean filter out the salt and use that to fill the lake back up. Either truck the water in or build a pipe line. California should be getting its water from the ocean already its right there.
Established practices and consumption levels needed to change, decades ago. We are seeing the catastrophe of increasing consumption alongside a significant shift in climate patterns towards reduced rainfall and snowpack in this watershed. Capitalist profit motives, denial of what is obvious, and an unwillingness to change are all pushing this towards a terrible outcome.
The widespread willingness to do what is legal, rather than what is sensible and appropriate fuels the problem even more so. And finally government bureaucratic inertia stifles local attempts to adopt sensible water restrictions.
What will this situation look like in twenty years?
Who will be left?
What will these cities and communities that depend on current consumption levels look like?
What forms of agriculture will still be in use?
And, where will all of these climate refugees go, when the wells runs dry?
The red states will build walls to keep the refugees out, or just minorities and pro-choice people, and anyone who disagrees with their ideology, including their own family members.
And Mexico will pay?...
An actual wall seems unlikely, but a large toll plaza/immigration inspection station to weed out undesirables on all the major roads into the state. I'm sure that idea will be floated around in some state legislatures when the time comes.
Hubris before the fall
The dam was once a bucket list destination and Vegas a sideshow. Not so much now. Maybe if I venture to the Grand Canyon. IDK East of the Mississippi is nice and wet.
Lol. Capitalism has nothing to do with it. Look at communist China. They try to cram even more people in cities and have even more problems as a result. Same with North Korea. The capitalist approach would be to build desalination plants and charge more for that water to cover the costs. A tiered billing system basically. Its the socialist aproach of keeping prices low when supply is low that leads to shortages because there is no incentive to reduce use aside from forced rationing. This applies to everything from water, to energy and housing.
Too many people living in the desert as heat waves more common as well as electric overloads
Nothing lasts forever. Plans are in place to provide for all contingencies. We don't intend to let go and give up.
Where is the imaginary water going to come from, not the great lakes
Green salt water dumbass desalination plants get to it idiot
Reverse the flow of the Missouri. Las Vegas people are more important than those states.
I wish they'd hurry up and make a Deadpool and Wolverine movie already
How will the dam react to being refilled?
The release and reapplication of pressure will surely have unexpected results.
No.
That’s a valid question. Kind of like a pool. If you leave it empty to long it will crack and/or have breaches.
I wonder about that too
built into solid rock--not like your gut which expands causing major smelly farts
Dethray1000
Is that the best you can do?