Mega Drought in the US Southwest

[JUAN]

Isn’t the desert southwest like the desert and stuff?

[Gd5150]

Imagine if we built canals and rerouted flood waters from the upper Missouri and Mississippi to the southwest. You know, like the floods that strike every year. The plans cost is currently around 20 billion. Would’ve been half that if we had done it say 15 years ago when they were first conceived. Oh well a CA speed train to no where for 100 billion and sending Ukraine another 60 billion is more important.

CA Lemmings can’t even get 100 mil to restore the Salton Sea with a simple canal. They’ve just had film festival after film festival to “raise awareness” for the last 15 years.

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The natural-color images above were acquired on July 6, 2000, and July 3, 2022, by Landsat 7 and Landsat 8. The detailed images below also include a view from Landsat 8 on July 8, 2021 (middle). The light-colored fringes along the shorelines in 2021 and 2022 are mineralized areas of the lakeshore that were formerly underwater when the reservoir was filled closer to capacity.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150111/lake-mead-keeps-dropping

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I live in the DFW area and we are restricted to watering a maximum of 2 times a week. Yet I see that Las Veges residents are allowed to water 3 times a week.

How crazy is that!!!!

[Chefist]

LOL...we are up for the year on rainfall in Tucson, monsoons started late...last year was a record year for rainfall...50% above average...anyway, it's always a drought in the desert, folks. 

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[StarrMountain]

Now we know where Lake Mead's rain went.

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To contrast, today, England has declared a Drought Emergency due to low levels in many of the reservoirs.


And there is fight about farmers getting the water they need to produce lucrative crops of high water use fruits, like mangoes, in Spain.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62298430

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Drought threatens 60% of EU and U.K. as Europe faces "critical situation"

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/drought-european-union-uk-threat-heat-climate-crisis

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States along the Colorado River have officially missed a federally imposed deadline to develop a new water-sharing agreement, and the federal government on Tuesday announced new water allocation reductions, including nearly 25 percent in cuts to Arizona.

The Colorado River basin serves seven states — an Upper Basin of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, and a lower one of Arizona, California and Nevada — and its waters are allocated based on the terms of a century-old agreement from when there was substantially more water in the river.

Meanwhile, the region is facing a 20-years-and-counting drought, the worst in centuries.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3604171-feds-cut-colorado-river-allocation-to-arizona-nevada-as-talks-fail/

[sean92008]

They could seed clouds, but they might get sued.

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Drain it.