Lake Mead At Risk Of Becoming A "Dead Pool"
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Lake Mead is at its lowest level in history and is at risk of becoming a "dead pool." NBC News' Jacob Soboroff what that means for communities that rely on the lake.
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#LakeMead #Drought #DeadPool
And in Vegas , the building of mega-hotels , golf courses , and new homes just keeps going , and going , ...
It’s not about Vegas. It’s about growing the majority of our food in the desert. But that’s where cheap land and cheap labor to harvest the crops are. The best farm land in the world is used to grow gasoline. Only in America.
FWIW: Residential consumption is only about 7% of the water supplied from the colo. river. about 85% goes to farming, and about another 7% goes to thermal power plants. This will most like effect food prices & residential use including green lawns & golf courses is just a drop in the bucket.
Raiders just built a Stadium and moved the team to Vegas, i saw it being built when i was out there in fall of 2019 (just before the Pandemic rolled in).
@Angry Soybean Forget those, they are growing RICE!
@Angry Soybean Partly wrong, yes ag in the desert is a terrible idea, but companies are the ones using huge amounts of water to produce products because of the American consumers constant need for new things.
It’s almost like building huge urban centers in the desert is a bad idea.
What's that got to do with anything?
@Jack L. Thanx for the tip...I had no idea.
Btw, "cities in the desert" use very little water in the scheme of things. You did know that, right?
Las Vegas as an example receives a 2% water allocation per the Colorado Compact. It currently uses 2/3rds of that 2% allocation to support a city approaching 2.5 million. You knew that, right?
The BOR's own data states that as much as 83% of the water in some years is used to irrigated crops, crops that are feeding you and the world. You knew that, right?
So tell me now, how are "cities in the desert" a bad idea when water usage is so low in the scheme of things...remember that 83% Ag usage before you reply.
It's not only happening in desert surrounding areas...
The southwest is now a desert, but it is actually the Drylands. Drylands have plenty of water. When people are stealing it from rivers and aquifers, they run out. When you capture it through the rain cycle and plant enough trees, you can have plenty of stable water. Our cities will perish unless people start to produce rather than consume.
Here’s a big clue no power and scamming people into buying homes that are overpriced, but with no water no power and yes that means no drinking water. How long will it take to bring water from the Great Lakes? Hope that helps your 2.5 percent ( what could go wrong?)
In 1976, my history professor at UCLA suggested that we pay close attention to the water shortage difficulties we would be facing in the future. People saw this coming long ago.
samuel clements said it long ago: whisky's for drinkin'...water's for fightin'
Yes, I was living in California in 1976 and things were so bad I returned to Michigan where I could have all the fresh drinking water I could ever desire.
In 18.. there was already a study and report on the water use and land development for that area (and throw in the bin).
There is now a dry period of 20 years but looking at tree rings these can take as long as 60 years….
@@misme2000 If memory serves me well, I think the professor said that the Los Angeles basin provided enough water for a little over one hundred thousand people as the natural capacity of the water resources available before technology entered the equation.
This country hasn’t been a proactive country, since Nixon, who destroyed everything.
As a Tucsonan, this is scary. But what's scarier is that farmers growing our food and tribal areas have to ration first ( where they already struggle to have access to utilities) before large areas like Phoenix where everyone wants a green lawn. Ration water now!
Farmers use 80% or more of the water. Virtually all of the agriculture in this area is dependent on irrigation. So when cut backs happen, you go where there is water.
There shouldn't be any farmers in the desert....
Build desalination plants.
@@tiffymag 25 MGD Class A+ Reclaimed Wastewater from one plant in the Phx Valley, COTTON
I always said that desert landscaping is best in Arizona. In Phoenix, so many people want lawns, but it's a waste of water.
Maybe close the golf courses
They need to be closed now.
Most use the water they have in their ponds and reuse the same water over and over. The farms are the biggest users. Can't grow there without irrigation.
Good let 50000000000 more illegals in that will help with water Shortages. 💧
Amen.
Do not grow even 1 blade of grass in a desert.
Artificial turf is green enough.
@Bob Gorn well, it certainly doesn’t help the situation. It would be better if they moved to the east. Who cares what color they are, they are still sucking up water.
Keeping grass alive in the desert is a really silly use of water.
Idiotic
The grass we have in the desert uses much less water. The real problem is the farmers who flood their fields then just let the excess water evaporate away.
@@rustzz8 Or Nestle bottling the water and selling it. That dont help
Bidens america 🇺🇸
@@sonnynick1 Biden has something to do with Phoenix being in Arizona?
I imagine a golfer in Phoenix watched this news segment sitting in a golf cart at a lush green golf course eating a bag of pistachios and wondered, "Why is this happening?"
And yet they'll be the last to be affected.
And some organic almonds lol
Drinking some Fiji
😂
@@lastharvest4044 Lol. Phoenix is known for its bodies of water. It's why the grass is so green 🙄🤣
Most importantly: stop farming water-intensive crops in a desert. Then move water-intensive industry to the Great Lakes region. Stop watering hundreds of massive golf courses in the southwest. Stop filling Vegas with artificial lakes, canals, and pools for the rich. Stop covering middle-class neighborhoods with rows of lifeless lawns that are watered heavily but never used by the occupants.
Moronic comment of the thread. Just the fact that you stated "move Ag production to the Great Lakes" shows how clueless you are. have you ever seen a tomato field around the great lakes in January? Wonder why not?
@@dmannevada5981 Greenhouses are an engineering problem, easily resolved. Water scarcity is not.
@@Cosmodjinn There is not a 'natural" water scarcity issue in the traditional sense, it's a human created usage issue. Water isn't going anywhere, but, when one region on the country is essentially "exporting" that resource to the rest of the country, you'll eventually reach "peak" fruition as we are seeing. The Colorado River, or the west for that matter, can't be the primary supplier of what is referred to as "soft" agriculture, and not start having water issues as the population and demand grows without reducing that consumption, or adding another water source. Think about these facts.
1. Over 90% of N. America's winter fruits & veggies produced from Oct-Apr are produced with Colorado river water. That's not even considering the year round production, or the production sent internationally.
2. Calif is the largest "soft" Ag producing state. Florida is #2. But, in hectares, Calif's production is 40x larger than Florida's. The difference between the #1 & #2 states is 40x. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT.
3. The BOR's own data states that in some years, as much as 83% of the Colorado's flow rate is being used to irrigated crops.
Where you aware of any of the facts I stated?
So you see, this is about a management issue. Tech & the global economy changed the game. We can now produce Ag 24/7 365 all over the world, something unavailable on this scale just a few decades ago. At what point in history, if you lived in say Minneapolis, Montreal or NYC, you didn't have access to the plethora of Ag available today, you had to can you fruits & veggies to get through the long N. American fall/winter/spring and store them in fruit/canning cellars. Fruits and canning cellars were common just 2-3 generations ago. They were made obsolete by tech.
American's soon may be forced to go back to "canning" like previous generations once did, or get used to a limited supply at their grocery stores if the water being exported is not replace with another source. That is a reality Americans may face soon.
You don't need to grow cotton in Arizona. It can grow in any southern state. We don't need dairy in the west. You can get cheese from Wisconsin and drink oat milk from south Dakota instead of cows milk. We don't need to grow rice in California.
@@jamestucker8088 True, but growing rice or cotton will not end until a century of water agreements are backed out, and use it or lose it ends. As one agency manager once stated..."changing a century of negotiated & litigated law is a political nightmare of biblical proportions". She was right. This is political because it's jobs and tax revenue. If you were at the end of this, you'd be political too.
Also, Wisconsin produces some of the best dairy products in America. But Wisconsin can't produce dairy on the scale Calif does for a variety of reasons, particularly, commodity dairy. Calif has been the largest dairy producing state for generations, you and I will be dust to Earth before that changes. It's nice to say or think something, but it's not reality. Do you think Calif's dairy industry is just going to give it up...then you don't know human behavior. Just say'n.
It seems like this deserves more than 3.5 minutes of coverage on the news.
Yea a 24 hour doc on how building a huge citys in a dezerrt is a bad jdea. Also tier one should be citys.
I think they got to the point of what is going on... if you make it longer, you start losing people... we live in a culture of tiktok and quick sound bytes cause people cant be bothered more than 5 minutes to keep their attention.
@@harvey8695 of course, these big cities are ran and populated by who? Oh but you want the right to bail them out. Why build large cites and farms in desert areas?
@@harvey8695 that’s a huge generalization.
@@flonkas ....What you both fail to realize is that this problem has been ignored by EVERYONE for decades.
This is not news because it is not new.
NASA did an article on it in 2010 and others before that.
I like how they won't even talk about the cause.
Never full transparency on any matter. But here is the crucial issue that we have to deal with.
Funny how the lake is drying up but sea levels are rising
@@ClaudiaAlarconkiutpi Climate Change , Carbon Emissions completely changing worldwide weather patterns…
@@peppyp7323 also also, let's add what is also part of the cause are these m.f. in denial over climate change.
" oh we are getting hotter every year? Well that's just what the earth does, weather changes all the time".
We are just talking about weather here, climate is something different on it's own.
And this is why a bigger school budget is important not only for the youth but for when they turn into adults.
Climate change, intensive agriculture and Nestle bottling water
So glad I sold my house in Vegas 3 years ago. I saw this years ago and took advantage of an easy job change the second I saw it. Im just shocked people still think its a good idea to stay in Vegas and even worse...people are still moving to Vegas. In 10 years its going to be impossible to sell your house.
the ones moving to vegas and phoenix are people leaving california which has sparked a giant housing boom, probably what's driving these sudden water shortages
You should've rented it out and sold it now. You would've almost doubled your money.
It’s sad because many are leaving Hawaii due to the cost of living and moving to Vegas. Five years from now, with no water in Vegas many will be in a very bad situation.
In ten years you won’t even recognize this country
10! More like 3!
As great as it is sitting here on the East coast without this water issue, this lake is going to affect the entire country when California food production falters
The next 50 years are truly going to be the slow slide into a nightmare. To many people, not enough food and resources its going to get bad.
The Climate Change effects the east coast we bigger storms and 1000yr floods now happen early. A couple months ago New York subways were flooded. The southwest is screwed no water I'm good in Seattle right next to big snowy mtns🤘
@@mayspondmogul only problem is you are near Seattle lol
The vaxxed will be gone in 2 yrs
@@chapmanmd79 What?
Meanwhile, they have the greenest high intense water consumption golf courses.
Good point.
Same in Utah. They say that farms and golf courses take 97% of Utah’s water consumption even though we’re in the worst drought on record. Farming and golf courses in the desert…makes perfect sense 🙄
A lot of courses use recycled water. Not drinkable.
@@SubjectTOAD understood, but I can buy a $30 water filter for hiking that filters 99.9% of everything in diarrhea water, but our government can’t filter the same water to make it drinkable? And btw, our golf course taps directly into the aquifer to water, so how is that non-potable water? Everyone always has excuses for the elite.
@Eldritch Abomination oh yes, that should work out wonderfully 😂
This should become a history lesson about what not to do.
First lesson don't use your drinking water to fight forest fires lesson over
@@tylerlee6613 I mean, u have a point lol
@@tylerlee6613 : You don't need water to your home if your home has been burned to the ground.
Nobody will learn. All the decision makers are short term thinking..
@@tylerlee6613 😀
Use Brawndo, it's got electrolytes.
that's what plants crave!
Use water, like from the toilet.
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go away ! batin'
@@miketexas4549 bingo!
No one needs a living green front lawn who lives in a drought prone area. I rocked entire front (previously a living green lawn) and kept a couple of native trees and native plants. I'm going to get rid of my lilac bushes since that is not native bush. I've also cut my green lawn in the back yard by a third.
Sadly greedy water users could care less to do the same unless forced.
Wise.
I live in the northeast. I never water my lawn b/c we get so much rain. I cannot imagine planting a lawn in a desert climate. The amount of work and effort to maintain non native plants sounds daunting. I don’t get it.
These areas are beyond a "drought" prone area, they are deserts and always have been.
In your lawn areayou could plant a drought tolerant tree or two, at least youll get shade and save water on the grass
Imagine what's happening to the underground water table that we can't see.
Its full of metal from all the guns criminals have tossed into the lake...like Jodi Arias after murdering her boyfriend in Mesa Arizona, many believe she tossed the gun and knife she used to murder him.
They're pumping like crazy...it's an ecological disaster in the making.
Thet say it is just about gone in the San Juaquine Valley.
We can see it now. Just look up California towns sinking.
Being fed to the underground cities?
When man tries to turn desert into golf courses and properties with grass - well, that's not going to work.
Greedy capitalism will ruin it every time
Chinas reforestation program kind of proves this thought to be incorrect.
Changing weather as well as overuse of resources. This type of stuff shouldn't be a suprise. We have no idea what we are doing tbh.
Well: The decision makers are all about cash under the table for them, and don't care about anything else.
You do realize we can control the weather? We have had the technology since 1960.
This story is about changing weather.
@Forensic Files: Paul McCartney Missing Since 1966 What drought are you referring to?
Just a note: You do know their are now numerous drought designations by NOAA.
So I"" help you a bit. Has the drought designation by NOAA the last 20 years been hydrological? Meteorological? Agricultural? You may have to look up each definition, then figure out which have been applied and when.
@Forensic Files: Paul McCartney Missing Since 1966 Fine, but there is no "drought of biblical proportions". Where is that?
I like how people are saying how building desalination plants is too expensive, but don't complain how the military industrial complex spends trillions on developing and using weapons.
I guess killing is more important than water.
That technology is important. We are in a constant race with China and Russia. If they gain a significant advantage, we are at risk along with many of our allies. If we didn't have that military advantage, those countries would exploit our weaknesses. Americans live in their own little world oblivious of everything around them.
In California alone there are 11 desalination plants with 10 more proposed so it IS happening right now but it's not without it's own challenges. It takes 2 gallons of sea water to make 1 gallon of fresh water and the 1 gallon of salty brine has to be returned to the sea "responsibly" to avoid any serious impact on the environment and the sea life.
@@billr5842 that technology is only staving off the inevitable
This just means Disney will sue Lake Mead for copyright infringement over the Deadpool name.
Does Disney own the Clint Eastwood movie?
@@nightlightabcd The movie is called The Dead Pool.... two words and has a the in it.... that would be thrown out of court before things even got started.
Haha you made a funny. Hope you're prepared.
@@roymakescomics can I come over
we should add more sanctuary cities to cal that will help
out. More people will fix the problem.
Over capacitated the Colorado River system years ago. It took years to get to this. It will doubtfully ever recover.
Nah at this rate its gonna be a sea
When I visit the Hoover I always pee in it to try and help
@@maximumhardcore4362 ture hero
Only if we get em all out of there.
We've got other water issues in other places throughout the world. It will recover, but not until humans become extinct.
why are reservations below companies for priority that's messed up.
Because companies produce gdp, tax income and overal economy. Reservations are just museums.
@@Avicados Is that Cynical or legit?
Take a ride over to the res and answer for yourself.
Because the people who made these laws clearly dont care about native americans
Were always a day late, and a dollar short when it comes to fixing these problems that have catastrophic consequences! Politics ruins Everything! 😒
because politics is a 'shoot the messanger' system. The people who caused the problems are long out of office, so everyone else kicks the can down the road as long as possible. Nobody wants to be the one who pulls the trigger on drastic actions. Can you imagine being the local politicians who makes it illegal to water lawns? Or dictates which crops can be grown?
Politics is the only way anything ever changes. Better politicians start with better, more informed voters.
yup, commifornia let 30 billion in EDD fraud happen, that 30 billion could have built a small distillation plant from sea water... have to start taking showers like birds in dirt
@@cardboardboxification Conservatives would rather blame poor people and try band-aid solutions rather than addressing the problem. PS "Commiefornia" pays for billions in infrastructure in crappy red states across the country because it has a juggernaut of an economy, are you saying communism leads to incredible economic growth for decades?
@@cardboardboxification also allowed over a trillion gallons of fresh water to flow into the ocean, all for a baitfish that isn't on the endangered list.
The sprinklers in every neighborhood in Denver go off bright and early every morning.
Geography much?
i live in san diego and people water their driveways because it’s too much work to sweep
@@Baddknewz and dishwashers use more water than laundry!! Japan suds their scraped dishes and then rinse, saving huge amounts of water. Europe?? Dishwashers are very rare, even today.
It’s proven a dishwasher actually uses less water than hand washing sir
@@TheStefanp10 honestly thought you were lying but you’re right you’d have to be sub 4 minutes to save any
Everyone in California, Arizona and Nevada should be using Solar panels.
Arizona is, but not everyone can spend $15K on panels. It's for the upper middle class.
Still too expensive and not economical for households that dont use much electricity. Plus that doesnt solve the water problem In the southwest.
@@Vinrx7 Should be subsidized by the states, no water equals no power in the western states that rely on hydropower. Could feed power back into the grid also for those that can't really afford it. Don't see them building any desalination plants either. All their heads are stuck in the sand, frozen, unable to act proactively. California provides an astronomical amount of food for this country, the economical and human toll if they fail will stun the economy and this country.
@@DIVISIONINCISION Solar can be installed with virtually no out of pocket; home solar is heavily subsidized. Call Solar City or one of their competitors.
@@1drummer172 You still have a monthly payment.
Pistachios, almonds, pomegranates, white rice farmers in California have made two families some of the richest people in the world with our water. Most of the water intense crops are exported. These farm jobs don’t pay well either.
And don’t forget beef and milk!
Cotton. 8th largest lake west of the Mississippi was pumped dry by a cotton farmer. The old lake is now a cotton field
@@darrengray1569 That's disgusting.
Yes lets blame California farmers and not fossil fuel companies who were the Architects of our demise.
@@GetH0NEY what stupid response. Let’s not pit simple awareness as a faux argument against farmers when farming with my water is at stake. It’s not a Norman Rockwell type of farmer we are talking about here. These people are vultures and scammers who arranged secret deals to abscond with billions of metric meters of Californian water to line there own pockets.
As for oil, that is an entirely different issue.
I mean when they have millions and millions of people living in california and other nearby states that are basically a desert, there's gonna be water issues. It was just a matter of time as more and more people live there. And yes climate issues definitely haven't helped.
Nonsense. Potable water usage is only 12%-and going down. Over 80% of the water is being used to irrigate crops(per the BOR) that are feeding you. It's not the population of the west(at it's current levels) using the water, it's the 400 million N. Americans being fed by the agricultural production out west.
I heard an old man say when I was a small child, one day water will be more valuable than gold. This was in 1997. He's long passed, but what he said never did.
It’s true
Those are words of wisdom and he was foreshadowing (warning you) of things to come.
Bro there’s enough water around for everyone on earth probably more than 100x over. Just use the ocean
@@Jonathan-du8fs "just" 🤡
@@Jonathan-du8fs lets say you're right.(you're not) How are you going to turn ocean water into drinking water. You can, but its very costly and takes a long time. The demand wouldn't be met
I do not feel bad for these people. They should have started conserving water a dozen or so years ago. Why wait until January?
Matthew, the greedy humans will NEVER conserve water. The "elites" golfing ranges alone and clubs, will use STILL more water, but in an arrogant attitude way...with pride. Civilization is DONE in the old west. America will have to learn the hard way, that its over in the old west and the waterways. california and Nevada will the the first to go. Vegas and its greed uses WAY TOO much water than even the regular urban centers in the Southwest and California. AND THERE STILL is "Acorn" farming that is tolerated in California that uses TONS of water. And then, the first people allowed to use water reserves ARE ALWAYS THE MILITARY bases underground. Screw the humans living on the surface!
"These people" are both "your people" and simply "people". Your lack of empathy and resulting character flaws are noted.
@Repent! LOL,hahaha....yeah, okay boomer.
@Repent! this is probably true. the Elites no they are not liked. they love their secrecy, plus, in reality they don't TRUST EACH OTHER...because..its about power, right? competition? so yeah, they have hidden, secret places they do things at.
I dont mean bee rude on comments. But dont matter if you save water the river will dry no matter what, save watter o use lees only gives more time the problem relays some were us. Pardon mi scriploes.
Humanity has a one way ticket to catastrophe and nobody cares XD keep it up, y'all.
Heard dat
the great filter
Not humanity, the US! Most of the world is trying to shift away from fossil fuels and trying to adapt.
Yeah duh...thats the plan...Georgia Guidestones...Agenda 21...Its a big club and we aint in it. And this guy.ruclips.net/video/33GdIBrdmc0/видео.html
@@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment thats not the rest of the world thats the new world order discuised as your daddy .
The mighty river that carved the grand canyon no longer reaches the ocean. Maybe if we ignore the environment it will just go away.
You've got your enchilada placed wrong.
Stolen water. Soon they will know what it's like in Mexico 🇲🇽.
The river still has the same flow as it did 200 years ago you have more people using water and you have millions of people living in a desert region
Cadillac desert. Check the documentary.
Man-made crisis. It's a lie. They have been dumping water into ocean. Aliens and devil get the earth for 7 yrs. Luke 21:26... aliens are real
I don't understand how half America is flooding and the other side in drought
I’m not surprised. This is the same thing my wallet does when I go to Vegas. The level just keeps dropping until I have to leave.
Do you actually think we want you to leave with more money in your pocket? What kind of a business model would that be? You know the saying..."these casino's weren't built on winners"!
Good don't come back 😂
This goes much deeper than just one lake. Stories like this are the reason I will not have children. I’m not going to allow them to suffer along with the earth.
Have 1 or 2 kids is ok because the world is overpopulated.
Well that just creates another problem, a lowered fertility rate. Today’s baby is tomorrow’s worker/tax payer etc. This will create a slower economic growth, lower healthcare workers, and negatively effect government budgets. I think the answer to our problems lies within the birth of singularity.
@@ericcampos1987 economy will not exist when the planet implodes
Oh I hate when that happens.
Remember when they invented fun new ways to play with radiation? How'd that work out.
Let's create a singularity , better.
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That's the most stupidest excuse i have ever heard. Go hide in a cave. Your useless
The foreshadowing is uncanny, it has literally became a "dead pool"
Well I'm sure it's nothing that can't be solved with 'smaller government' and a larger military budget.
😆
No you're right, the government will fix EVERYTHING! 🤣😂
@@alexthomas7529 yeah, the government will fix it if the goddamned dirty Republicans will kindly get the F out of the way.
So, the government can control Mother Nature? Please don’t breed!
Lmao
It’s only going to get worse 🔥🔥🔥
When these made marvels and lakes were created by the great engineers ect. They forgot about 1 thing. What if the population grows faster than the water can be replinished.
@This Guy in the early 20th century in L.A. they were going to build a public transit system like the NYC subway only in Los Angeles. I believe from what I heard the auto car making companies bought it all out to shut it down causs they wanted people driving cars. now look L.A. is full of freeways and highways, cars everywhere and smog!
“Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.”
The Rangers are coming in from Baja. I heard they chew nails and spit napalm.
stop😂
😂 you cracked me out! I've been playing the game for almost a year!
New Vegas, the only good Fallout game 🔥
@@CrippledNCRVeteran “When I got this assignment I was hoping there would be more gambling.”
Singapore is leading the world in reusing their water to consume. We should definitely follow on their footsteps but I doubt that. Asian countries are always ahead of the US which is sad.
Require banning bleach. Amonia lotsa house hold cleaners.
He'll we gave them the knowledge, or they stole it.
Singapore or other tropical country never lack of rain water, that resupply ground water. I think many part of US are dessert/semi dessert with so little rain.
@@ayina114 the western US is mostly a desert, the only part of the US west of the rocky mountains that isn't a desert is within 100km of the pacific ocean and farther north than san francisco
@@NM-eb5ej there is no such thing as stolen tech, it is who can pay more. Inventors and tech companies don't belong to the nation they are from, they always seek for the highest bider.
The dams along the Colorado River basin have the ability to hold about 4 years of average runoff. We have been in a prolonged drought over the whole basin. Thankfully we have that multi-year storage ability in the basin or we would be in deep trouble today. The drought very well may continue and we will have to cut back usage more but there is also the chance we will have some wet years like in 82 and 83 where we had so much water it was spilling over the dams and flowing into the Gulf of California.
It is NOT the case that we CAN'T move flooding water from the East Coast to the DESERT where it's needed, it is that WE WON'T. We have decided that petty differences mean more than saving our desert communities.
Too many ''me first'' districts, states, townships etc. are busy making their grievances bigger than necessary. This is killing the drier states.
You can do just about anything if you have the money. Building aqueducts and then the pumps and the power to operate them would break the bank.
I know this is a serious topic, but all I can think about is Deadpool.
😂😂😂
This is Deadpool’s origin story
“Chimichanga juice”
same!!! lmao
Yup
Geologist John Wesley Powell warned of this is 1893 when adressing the irrigation council proposing the Westward sprawl. He stated " Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict amd litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land." This is not an example of climate change, it is an example of not following the science. We built golf courses, dams, communities, farms, and casinos in an area that could not provide enough water.
THIS COUNTRY NEEDS SOME LEADERSHIP!
And unity.
Time for a massive building of solar farms and Desalinisation plants
Over in saudi arabia they're building a test plant that uses the sun to boil the water and then collect the steam as fresh water. It's pretty much a glass dome with a way to focus the light.
That makes TOO. MUCH COMMON SENSE. Let's invade other countries, expand the Military budget and waste more money on Social programs.
Funny, I did that today! OOPS, this comment belongs one click down.
Solar is a dead end
They should switch to nuclear power
Every news station should cover this story everyday, this is HUGE! Scary future for America
It's the whole planet. We ruined it, now it's getting rid of the infection (us).
Ryan Reynolds : Yeah, tell me about that...
Good let 50000000000 more illegals in that will help with water Shortages. 💧
@@cutratecontractor1000 How many babies born in this country every day are by US citizens? Let's put BIRTH CONTROL in the municipal water in every city in the US. How many kids did your family produce bullish? You are part of the overpopulation problem, unless you are childless.
@@cutratecontractor1000 didn’t get Monsta’s joke F
Cost of produce might be going up at the supermarket. California Central Valley provides much of our veggies and fruits and walnuts, etc.
A lot of produce like naval oranges are being imported to north america from Australia and South Africa
Grow your own in your yards
Look around genius rhe price of everything is already up. All brought to you by the wonderful Biden administration
I would not want to live west of Texas. Not knocking anyone, it just seems like a constant struggle fires, water shortage, etc. I remember hearing about people painting their lawns.
WA is still fine. Coming up, we'll all need to move into Canada.
Stop building so much, the more you build the more water it takes. On the news they was talkin about what Las Vegas is going to be like in 60 years. With all the new developments going on. There's not going to be any water you're not going to be able to live in Las Vegas in 60 or 70 years
Theres no not building but, how about build responsibly. If we'd have developed proper watersheds in the first place instead of juat blocking off n ruining everything.
@@lostpony4885 I live in Northtown not too far from the VA Hospital they only begun to build over here. It's no stopping in sight. It was a water valve that broke over here it took them 4 days to come fix it. Losee and Centennial thousands of gallons of water. I exercise every morning so I saw it every morning from the time it happen until they fix it.
@XT we have a bit more ag than Vegas has, and the Colorado actually GOES to Mexico naturally, not that much actually arrives. It doesnt make it to the ocean tho.
Nonsense. Las Vegas doesn't have water issues. Where do people come up with this stuff? The water in the reservoir is owned by Calif & AZ water agencies, primarily agricultural interests, not Nevada(Las Vegas). Nevada(Las Vegas only receives a 2% water allocation per the Colorado Compact, and only uses 2/3rd's of that 2% allocation to meet the potable water needs of a city approaching 2.5 million. In addition, the city reclaims & recycles over 90% of it's potable water usage, returning it to the system(the reservoir), and soon through a loop, back into it's own system with the new facility it's building. What are you talking about?
@@carlosharris2308 Good grief, talk about the definition of anecdotal.
In Arizona recounting election votes is more important than their shrinking water supply
Lmaoo
Well yes because election theft and installing tyrannical Democrats leads to water shortages.
I bet you voted for Biden
The loss of hydroelectric power is going to be a huge blow to renewable energy, not just from the clean energy generated, but from the dispatchability. The only other options for low-carbon dispatchable power are batteries and nuclear power.
Note that businesses are the very last to be affected. Even the government itself must take less water before companies. Wonder who wrote and sponsored *_that_* bill
Or maybe businesses are the fabric of our economy and effecting them first affects the entire world. 🤔
Look up some info about California's water privatization scheme of the 1990s... they basically did “Enron for water” (i.e. created an artificial market for water use rights that exist on paper even if the actual water doesn't exist in reality) so big agribusinesses could have an excuse to plant massive new expanses of water-intensive cash crops like almonds and pistachios, and big developers could have an excuse to build massive new expanses of McMansion sprawl. For agribusiness in particular, these fruit and nut trees are big long-term investments that require an enormous and consistent water supply (almond growing requires more than a gallon of water per nut) or else they'll die, so planting so much of them basically amounts to a deliberate strategy of making your business “too big to fail” in order to strongarm the government into putting your interests first.
@@ChristianityRecap yeah makes sense. Save the businesses, not the people.
@@callmeshaggy5166 how do you plan on “saving the people” if nobody is working?
They're turning everything into a sequel these days.
Don’t act surprised that it’s low. The writing has on the wall for years. Politicians could’ve stopped this years ago. Complete bull 💩.
I don't think this is entirely on politicians. It's not like they can magically create more water
@@ProAlchemist not create water but stop the mega building
This is why there will be shortages on food and crops so prepare yourself it will be bad
Table vegies and Beef
Not for us in the midwest.....
They’ve been warning Vegas and Phoenix for decades especially not to “get accustomed” to heavy residential water yet this water made it possible to build more homes in the desert. Now they will have to start finding water for themselves in Phoenix, Vegas and now other urban desert sprawl more dependent on more water. Used to be they wouldn’t allow Sun City to use water intensive lawns, only on the golf greens the yards were decorated with lava rock. No more swimming pools people 🤷🏼♀️
For 3 decades SoCal has used 400K acre-ft/yr more than their share
LA needs to send Millions of people somewhere else.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Las Vegas will never be affected. Arizona and California will take the cuts. Nevada doesn't get enough water to make a difference. Farmers use 90% of the water, they will take the cuts. Vegas will not be cut. Nevada only has a 4% share.
@@TheBandit7613 No YOU have no idea what YOUR talking about. This history goes back to before YOU were even born.
Vegas doesn't have water issues, who told you that? Good grief.
@@aolvaar8792 Not so. Nobody uses more than their legal water allocation unless they've purchased water from other agencies. S. Nevada has so much excess water that it sold water to L.A.'s Metropolitan water district a few ago. Get that, sold water...Calif didn't just take it.
Fine by me, that’s what happens when you build a city in desert 🐪. Just like building a city below sea level on the coast and you wonder why it floods.
assuming this trend continues, i expect phoenix will become a ghost town in about 10 years. this is one of the reasons we're moving out of phoenix this weekend as i bought a house back in illinois while i still could.
Was thinking the same thing about Phoenix. I am supposed to move back when my office returns to work.
I guess all the Californians who are moving there paying 100k over asking price will have to move again soon... lol
I like that drawn sword/slicing sword sound effects. Very clever, symbolic, slightly dramatic, and fun.
When I heard the NFL was going to build a stadium in LV, I said it was a bad idea and got ridiculed for it. NFL stadiums use massive amounts of water for cooking/heating/sanitation every game. Putting that stress on Lake Meade was/is a bad idea.
False, that stadium's water consumption is not even a "drop in the ocean" for Lake Mead.
@@anelpasic5232 Death by a thousand cuts....and an NFL stadium is a deep cut.
Just sold my house for an astonishing price and got out of Las Vegas, California. Good riddens.
Ummm, Nevada? And it's, "Riddance".
@@willybones3890 No, David is right. Las Vegas is Los Angeles 2.0. Hence why he called it Las Vegas, California. I'm born and raised in Vegas and it's sad to see what's happened to it over the past 5 years alone. California is a tumor to the Western US.
Once again the almighty dollar over power’s reality, billions spent on new citys, mega resorts, golf courses.Developers only care about building and not the impact it will cause in years to come, this is not a desert community problem, this happens in every single city we go to. Condos built in the most crowded city intersections and mixed use(stores on bottom, condos on top) and nothing done to freeways or roadways.
I hope those southwest corporate shmucks dont result coming here to Colorado and destroy our resources too. We already have enough problems, we dont need more corporate shmucks to add on the issues
I'm from Hawaii. This is why I will never move to the desert. Despite how ridiculously expensive Hawaii is. We have fresh clean water.
Well, about that....
@@UPdan what you mean
@@treeinch252 The numbers of visitors to the islands and growth can have a negative effect on ground water.
Wells done humanity....we made it!!!!... Welcome to climate change era....
We blame each other when the ones we should be blaming in the gas and oil companies they ramped up this
@@Dopey007gus I rely on oil and gas to heat my home and drive my car. I love fossil fuel. I don't care about melting icecaps or drought affected farmers and sheep herders.
You are part of the problem "raul" you just don't realize it
It’s almost as if the rich people disproportionately are causing climate change and building new hotels and golf courses and expanding the urban sprawl and disproportionately are using the water from this lake and the people who will have to ration and conserve are “every day” people
😆 only a loon would think people can control the weather!
Its more like the democrat government that claims to be saving the enviroment by getting rid of dams, nuclear plants and fire roads are bad boys.
#SpankCalifornia
Composting toilets would really help this situations. One neighborhood flushes thousands of gallons of fresh water every day.
Our patterns are sociopathic. :(
I got a better idea. Califronia should stop getting rid of dams. Pushing for good toilets is about as useful to the environment as telling everyone to just drink their own pee.
The apocalypse seems more possible everyday. We are getting close now, can you feel it?
It can't come fast enough.
Okay, if they really want to fix this, desalination plants would already be up and running all along the coastline. But it’s better to suffer first so that we could point the finger at an opposing political party and further divide us!
Desalination is not the cure all you think it is.
Kris Benson - Desalination on a large scale is extremely expensive. Saudi Arabia does it because oil is extremely cheap for them. That is not the case with the U.S.
@@Frunobulax74 electronic vehicles and pulling out of oil is extremely expensive but we are putting as much into it as possible. kris is right, if they really wanted to fix this they would be researching desalination and trying everything they could to get it to where it was much more efficient and cost effective.
@@k333rl - They are working on it. There hasn't been a more cost effective way developed yet. I'm sure there are plenty of people that want to make a fortune by developing a more cost effective way.
@@Frunobulax74 can blow trillions on a 'vaccine' and crank it out in a years time, but can't do desalination? priorities....they don't care.
I don't want to bend your minds but the lake was drained for fear of a terror attack during 911 . They put 2 cops both sides of the dam didn't allow any trucks to cross even to this day because they built a bridge and let the cops finally go home.
Look up the snow pack in the rockys there was more snow pack in the last decade than the prior two decades when the lake was full. Plus I used to live on the river two different times and I saw them dumping the water. It was overflowing the banks in the winter in the morning. That doesn't happen . Look up the facts they speak for themselves. The water has a natural rise and fall so expect the level to stay the same. Oh they stopped draining the lake about 8 years ago when they got the water down enough to where the dam is thicker it's very narrow at the top
I haven't washed my car in 6 years, why can't everyone else do that.
Wash your car in the rain using what mother nature provides.
Exactly. Been doing that and other eco-enviro friendly savers since 1978.
The tap water here is hard water , if I wash it with that garbage , I have to dry it all off too.
Nothing is cooler than throwing on the dry ducks , during the rain.
Only tiny bits of soap , because of the naturally distilled rainwater.
Yeah I don't really do just to save water , I do it because I am lazy , and cheap 😊
Well in the west it hasnt rained for years in most urban areas.
Most of the escorts in Vegas just take dirt baths.
Hard to do that when it doesn't rain...
It was built. It's man made. So I can't say I feel bad about the loss of a mistake. But I do hope people will learn and be able to move on.
Naveda needs to be more pro-active about the water supply. Look at the possibility of creating an artificial glacier on Mount Charleston. This is what they do it the Himalayas; where water is pumped up and frozen up in the mountains and allowed to melt in the summer.
I guess thats why you dont live in what used to be a desert.🤷♂️
So are the tens of millions of people that live there just supposed to go live elsewhere and use up all the resources wherever that may happen to be?
I love how the very last option was "cleaning and re-using our own waste water." Shouldn't that be the FIRST option, not the LAST?
Waste water is the stuff you take a poo in. That's the FIRST thing you want to be drinking?
@@jayb9637 well you don't just drink the poopy water- you clean it in a water treatment facility first.
@@adamwong246 Hence the word "recycling". But that's not the point. The point is that's the FIRST option you chose lol. Make it make sense.
@@adamwong246 Micro- pharmaceuticals and estrogen
He missed his opportunity to say "A very sobering report from Jacob Soboroff"
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth doesn't look so inconvenient now... his book and movie/documentary should be studied and seen in highschools.....
Yes, they aren't laughing now, are they!
I actually had to write a report on that movie my senior year of high school back in 2012 as part of an environmental science class I took. Climate change was a huge part of that class and yet only 5 of us out of nearly 1,000 took that class that year. It’s astonishing to see how a decade later and climate change is still somehow “under the radar” knowledge…rip…
Sorry , not buying it !! Water cannot be destroyed , it is simply redistributed ... the Earth goes thru cycles , & the rain will bring the water back !! IF Gore was right about what he said then half of Florida would be under 3 ft. of water right now !!
manbear bernie!
@@colinhawks2469 nope gore scares you n uc still drivn
Eat lots of yummy food and enjoy your time left as a civilian in one of the most prosperous nations on earth for our time is coming to an end soon
@@johnboydTx thats where the short term "prosperous" came from
Ominous
@@cddjny that's how I roll. Ominously
This has been ongoing for decades but big cities keep building. Blame building commissions and local information
You'd think we humans would keep in mind...we have one planet at the moment..and should take care of it.
When geniuses build cities in deserts, losing water is possible
When genius take down dams and remove fire roads losing water and big fires are possible. #climatechangeisnotmagical
We dont get big fires or lack of water from co2.
I was just there a few weeks ago and said to my dad "maybe in my lifetime I'll get to see that b27 bomber come to the surface." which is so surreal
I think it’s a B29 … if you do get to see it, it will be encrusted with invasive zebra mussels, unfortunately. The parks service is in charge of the crash site.
I used to live in Vegas. I stayed at a bunch of different hotels there, and very few of them had water-preserving toilets or shower heads.
They’re doing this to themselves. Who lives in a desert and uses water like it’s going out of style?
Q: Who lives in a desert and uses water like it’s going out of style? A: the foolish and the foolhardy. okay next question.
@@phillyphil1513 Moron.
Farms use 95% of the water. Notice they did not mention Vegas ONCE?
Nevada will not be affected in any way. Only Arizona and California.
Nevada only has a 4% share and does not even use the whole amount.
I already see people from the west moving to the east
Nope
If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, it is this: a large percentage of US Americans are unwilling to make personal sacrifices to benefit the many. I don’t see a happy ending to this.
Americans? That's human nature entirely.
So idea, let’s bring more people into the country to use our resources.
Dumb Racist says what?
It would be better if a guy moved in and built a "really great" golf course, then put his name on it.
We need infrastructure to pump flood water from the Mississippi to out west. I've been saying this for years, but just like this post, it'll go unheard.
How many trillions of dollars would that cost? Has anyone done the math? Not just in building the infrastructure but the cost of operating and maintaining it.
@@glenncordova4027 it would start with a scrubbing plant to get the heavy debris out first. Large diameter pipes would be needed and then the first couple sections would be filters to get the smaller debris and sediment. Second stage is Above-ground pipe like oil pipelines, run it parallel to highways so the routes are already somewhat prepared and less eminent domain land transfers are needed. This would require pumping stations and transfer stations to redirect to areas of interest. At these facilities it would filter and treat the water further before introducing it to its destination so the water wouldn't contaminate the environment where it's ultimately going. This would cost hundreds of millions, not trillions just like oil pipelines do. Once it's built then there is only annual maintenance needed which across the entire pipeline system would probably cost less than $5m/year. I breakdown how it's paid below.
Here are the benefits, reduction in flooding of the Mississippi, less damage to homes and fewer lives lost. Reintroduction of water to the drying up reservoirs out west, create new reservoirs strategically located to improve ground water distribution to reduce and help fight wilde fires; when the soil is dry the trees and other vegetation are dry. This will also save live, livelihoods, and other homes and existing infrastructure.
Floods and wild fires already cost American taxpayers billions of dollars every year, yet we won't spend $750m+/- to build something to prevent that loss? Also, many local jurisdictions will pay for certain parts, as well as get the insurance companies to subsidize some of the cost as well, essentially this also financially benefits insurance companies because they have fewer claims to pay out, so strike a deal with them where they pay a percentage each year to help cover the costs of maintenance. If annually they pay out hundreds of millions in disaster related claims, a few million spent to reduce and offset that would be worth it to them.
This project alone would also create tens of thousands of jobs across the west half of the country which improves spending and generates more tax revenue. The financial rewards long-term outweigh the immediate costs.
@@glenncordova4027 do you know how much it cost to build oil pipelines? Why can't we do the same for water? Oil is more important than water?
@@j22mattones I think water transport across the county is also a great idea, but the volume a pipe could carry is inadequate by far. I think something like what India has done (and also in California too) with more or less a giant canal system is the way to go. India even covered sections with solar panels to reduce evaporation and generate electricity at the same time!
@@Matt-dk3wl however it would be most efficient and effective.
One of the hundreds of reasons why I’m glad I got out of Vegas.
I’m sure with the levels evaporating, they’ll find more missing bodies in that nasty lake.
They have been eaten by the fishes by now
Why are they building computer chip plants in arizona, they use more water than anyone
They built a huge Google plant here in Vegas
Swimming pools, lawn sprinklers in the day?
Who'd have imagined they'd contribute..
Let's build cities in the desert they said. It'll be great they said.
Cities use almost no water. Farms are using 90 to 95%. Cities will mostly not be affected. Farmers will need to stop growing water intensive crops like cotton and rice. You people have no clue what you're talking about.
@@TheBandit7613 wrong. Cities use so much water. Keep building more casinos and hotels
@@richardpomeroy9290 Chris is right...your comment is lame. The BOR reports as much as 83% of the Colorado's river's water is being used to irrigate crops. Chris looks smart...you not so much.
Semi Conductor Plants in AZ guzzle 2-4 million gallons of water per day... Wow..
Good let 50000000000 more illegals in that will help with water Shortages. 💧
then where does it go?
California needs to stop pulling from Colorado river and which immediately to desalination.
The mines use a lot of water
And will not use reclaimed water
Recycling waste water, the new California dream: drinking your neighbors recycled toilet bowl water 🤮
Hate to break it to you but every drop of water in the world is recycled lol
@@Kona61 not all recycling methods are alike
@@Toxica_Intoxicada The point is they are still Recyled
So like tap water, shower water, bottled water that you use everyday? This has been a thing for a while, the whole entire world recycles wastewater for consumption
@@Kona61 don’t ever take me seriously
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The majority of the energy generated at the Hoover Dam goes to Southern California, with just over 23% allocated to Nevada. Here's how the energy is distributed, according to the USBR: Arizona - 18.9527% Nevada - 23.3706%Jul 14, 2021
Clark County gets almost zero power from the dam. Individual customers in Paradise Valley (Casinos on the Strip) may have negotiated rates with the dam but no retail customer in the Las Vegas Valley is getting power from Hoover Dam.
@@vysharra its 18%
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge the Ducks dominant victory over the Wildcats last night
@@arayoflight4410 Nope, only a few Govt building in Las Vegas receives power from the dam. All of the power produced goes to "rural" S. Nevada. Kitty is correct.
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