who ever thought you would see this in your lifetime please stand up...
Yeah...kinda hard to find anybody...
I'll go you another one, everybody who thinks climate change is a hoax or it's all due to cow flatulence releasing methane gas into the atmosphere please stand up...
Again...
"Well tough for them that doesn't affect me any... blah blah blah..."
Really?
Do you know how much produce is grown in California or Beef in Montana etc?
What do you think will happen to the prices of those commodities when they can't farm them any more?
Think hard.
"They (experts on the issue) have known that Lake Mead, the nation's largest manmade reservoir and home to Hoover Dam, has is hitting historic low water levels, threatening the water supply for as many as 25 million people in the western U.S.
"Water levels at Lake Mead, located in Arizona and Nevada, have dropped to elevation 1,055 feet, the lowest since 1937, a year after Hoover Dam became operational and created the reservoir. In comparison, Lake Mead was at elevation 1,080 feet this time a year ago – a year in which federal officials declared a water shortage for southwestern U.S. areas served by Lake Mead.'
"Water from Lake Mead drains into valves located toward the bottom of the lake. These "intake valves" help transport the water to water treatment plants, where it is processed into drinking water."
"That intake valve you saw (at Lake Mead) is just a manifestation of problems everywhere in the (Colorado River) basin," said Brad Udall, senior water and climate research scientist for the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University. That includes "really low levels at Lake Powell," located on the river to the northeast, he said.
"Lake Mead's decline is not happening in isolation, but is the result of a two-decade drought hitting the western U.S. and causing critical water shortages on the Colorado River."
"Water levels at Lake Powell, too, have hit historic lows, falling below a mark set by federal officials to ensure power production and enough water storage to supply Lake Mead and other Colorado River users downstream. Both lakes were full in the year 2000, but now are roughly 30% full, Udall said."
(Water levels have fallen 70% in 22 years. Everybody that thinks the situation will somehow miraculously reverse course please stand up...
exactly...)
"Not every year is warmer, not every year is drier, but that is the overall trend," Udall said. "We now have much higher evaporation in all its forms and that means less water, less snow gets to the river … This drought is not going away. It's a serious problem. It's going to have to be dealt with and it's going to be really painful."
"The seven states that rely on the Colorado River for water supply – Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming – have agreed to cut back on the amount of water to be released this year from Lake Powell into Lake Mead by 480,000 acre-feet, more than 156 billion gallons. 500,000 acre-feet of water will also be released from Utah's Flaming Gorge reservoir into Lake Powell.
"They hope those steps help "reduce the risks we all face," the states said in a letter dated April 22 to Tanya Trujillo, the assistant interior secretary for water and science. Two weeks earlier, Trujillo had asked the states to consider the move to avoid "unprecedented operational reliability challenges" for the Glen Canyon Dam on Lake Powell."
"If Lake Powell's level falls too low – below 3,490 feet, it's currently at about 3,520 – the infrastructure supplying drinking water to the city of Page, Arizona and the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation "could not function," Trujillo said.
"Additionally, if water levels decrease too much, the dam would be unable to generate electricity, which could bring "uncertain risk and instability" to the western U.S. electrical grid, she said. The dam's powerplant supplies electric power to Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska.
"For the first time ever, one of the water intake pipes in Lake Mead — responsible for supplying Las Vegas with water — is visible above the lake's surface."
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"Scientists say this may be "the new normal and it could be worse than what we're seeing today," Pellegrino said. "We have to do more to bring our demands in line with what Mother Nature's providing us."
I think you can pretty much count on it being worse than what you are seeing today.
Oh there's a "Bureau of Reclamation" alright...and it's got nothing to do with Washington DC and water supply and electricity generation...
"The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. Currently the USBR is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The USBR is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western United States.
"Currently the USBR is the largest wholesaler of water in the country, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts."
So yeah I completely understand the "Well it doesn't affect me" argument...makes perfect sense...
Thats sarcasm BTW...
The highest form of humor some have said...
I love you baby.
TTYS honey :-).
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