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Rikki Gins Lounge => Natural Phenomena => Topic started by: Up All Night on July 06, 2022, 10:19:24 PM
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Not going to watch before posting...
1) Desalination easy and cheap if we had nuclear power.
2) They're so woke that fresh water is allowed to flow to the ocean because of all their regulations and politics.
3) The hoards of illegal aliens are the only population segment increasing in California use water too.
4) Even the Sierra Club agrees that poor forest management has led to decreasing water tables because of the overabundance and unhealthy growth of trees and brush.
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Wars over water. Wouldn't be the first time...
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Isn’t the desert southwest like the desert and stuff?
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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!!!!
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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. ;D
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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/
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They could seed clouds, but they might get sued.
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Drain it.
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By definition a desert is in a continuous state of severe drought...thus the ecological classification of "desert". FYI
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Faced with an historic drought, California cities have enacted unprecedented water usage restrictions on residents. Calls for conservation dot billboards and emergency notification signs on freeways, the dire warnings a steady reminder to save water. But a report from the Public Policy of California shares that urban use only accounts for 10% of all the states water. Around 40% is used to grow food, and food for our food like cattle. The remaining 50% is used for other environmental causes, like rivers and lakes. Professor Benjamin L Ruddell, Ph.D. studies urban planning and water policy and joined 5 Live to discuss where the water is going.
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Officials fear "Doomsday Scenario" for drought-stricken Colorado River
If that happens, the massive turbines that generate electricity for 4.5 million people would have to shut down — after nearly 60 years of use — or risk destruction from air bubbles. The only outlet for Colorado River water from the dam would then be a set of smaller, deeper and rarely used bypass tubes with a far more limited ability to pass water downstream to the Grand Canyon and the cities and farms in Arizona, Nevada and California.
Such an outcome — known as a “minimum power pool” — was once unfathomable here. Now, the federal government projects that day could come as soon as July.
https://archive.ph/7aG9r
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/01/drought-colorado-river-lake-powell/
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A showdown over Colorado River water is setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle
The federal government wanted seven western states that rely on the river to decide how to cut up to 30% of its water allocation. But there's one holdout: California.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/colorado-river-water-usage-sets-stage-for-legal-battle/1476445
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Drought Update
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The Biden administration floated two ideas this week to reduce water usage from the dwindling Colorado River, which supplies 40 million people.
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-river-water-west-california-arizona-5fefe545767b805900f4b967a7c8da25
The 1,450-mile (2,334-kilometer) river is a lifeline for seven U.S. states, dozens of Native American tribes, and two states in Mexico. It irrigates nearly 5.5 million acres (about 2.2 million hectares) of farmland in the U.S. and Mexico and generates hydroelectric power used across the West. In recent decades, drought, climate change and an imbalance between the river’s flows and how much water users are promised
Tuesday’s analysis from the Interior Department considers two ways to force cuts in the water supply for Arizona, Nevada and California: use the existing water priority system or the same percentage across the board. California and some tribes with senior rights to water benefit more under the first option. Arizona and Nevada, largely with junior rights, don’t feel as much pain under the second. Federal officials haven’t taken a stance.
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The film was made in 1967, and not 1976...
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States dependent on Colorado River required to conserve unprecedented amount of water in landmark deal
States will be required to conserve 3 million-acre-feet of water through 2026.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/states-dependent-colorado-river-required-conserve-unprecedented-amount/story?id=99509575
The three Colorado River lower basin states -- California, Nevada and Arizona -- will be required to conserve an unprecedented 3 million-acre-feet of water through 2026, the White House announced in a press release Monday.
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The desert is winning in reclaiming the valley . . .