12News Special: Addressing Arizona's water crisis

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  • Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
  • Above ground and below, water researchers, farmers and even homeowners are feeling the impact of the long drought.

Комментарии • 83

  • @frankkramer169
    @frankkramer169 Год назад +11

    Thanks to Ducey we have been giving our groundwater away to the Saudis since 2017 to grow alfalfa for Saudi dairy cows.

    • @lindamerchant123
      @lindamerchant123 Год назад +2

      Exactly!

    • @EvanIEvan
      @EvanIEvan Год назад +1

      Yeah when I learned about this, I was pretty pissed. No foreign use.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Год назад +1

      You people didn't want government regulations so you can stop blaming Saudi Arabia.

    • @frankkramer169
      @frankkramer169 Год назад +1

      @@sentientflower7891 I am blaming Doug Ducey, read my post.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Год назад

      @@frankkramer169 then your issue isn't Saudi Arabia and it is actually Republican reckless irresponsibility with a finite essential resource. This isn't the only issue Republicans are reckless regarding since they love pollution and defend polluters while denying the threat of climate change.

  • @garcjr
    @garcjr Год назад +7

    We got Republicans who gave our groundwater to the Saudis, and agri industrial farmers while complaining that building a desalinationplant costs way too much money. And Democrats who give money to other countries but not here.
    It's going to be up to us to address the issue. Not the GQP or Limousine Liberals.

    • @dryheat3633
      @dryheat3633 Год назад

      That's good the groundwater in America is contaminated anyways because Monsanto destroyed us we got the technology to make it I don't think they care. They're making money on everything every damn thing next will be air.

    • @Favorite-catNip
      @Favorite-catNip Год назад

      We also have zillions of idiots who voted for Mark Kelly, who voted away Arizona's claim to 21% of the Colorado River rights. Duh. Democrats are Air heads.🤬

    • @Favorite-catNip
      @Favorite-catNip Год назад

      Don't forget, like 18 years ago or so. A huge investigation about Az ground H20 usage. Agriculture or Building construction. The ppl. Voted for Construction.**** Can't eat cement. What a bunch of dicks. Got $$ in the pocket for selling dust bowl LAND.😱

    • @denisewaukau3478
      @denisewaukau3478 Год назад

      It's the Limousine Republicans that are the Culprits here ..Learn your Math, D'A'**!

    • @juliepiemonte1281
      @juliepiemonte1281 Год назад

      The Uniparty.

  • @garyglenn1445
    @garyglenn1445 Год назад +1

    Just shut it all off, what the hell did you think was gonna happen, building homes at a blazing pace, knowing there won't be enough water plus the fact that it's 150,000 degrees 8 months a year. Imagine that.

  • @spookydeadite
    @spookydeadite Год назад +4

    Hey but let's build more apartments, condos , and useless houses

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      Need a place to live for all the people who do not want to work. That way they can spend their handouts on important things like sports book, casinos, green hair dye, tattoos and piercings. And a $1200 cellphone.

    • @spookydeadite
      @spookydeadite Год назад

      @@davecozzi9721 LMFAO , this why we need to stop giving free handouts to lazy ppl , hell I'd seen people help junkies out more nowadays instead of helping people that actually need help , it's like the twilight zone

  • @Chano601
    @Chano601 Год назад +13

    Meanwhile, we are building 2 chip factories in az !

    • @dryheat3633
      @dryheat3633 Год назад

      I would be more worried about the Invasion at the border there must be something they're not telling us as far as I see and watch Mexico they have a Water Crisis too it's at the point to where they got to have tanker trucks pulling up at businesses just like you see at gas stations so they can deliver water. Has anybody ever seen the sky lately it's almost like they control the water the rain sad times we live in going to get worse guaranteed.

    • @Chano601
      @Chano601 Год назад +1

      @DRY HEAT I'm worried about both plus the new Governor

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      Chip factories are not even a blip compared to all the golf courses and man-made lakes. When the idiots are the ones who have the money, anything goes.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Год назад

      @@Chano601 Go visit Kari Lake, she's got plenty of spare time.

    • @Chano601
      @Chano601 Год назад

      @Sentient Flower no, she too busy suing the state

  • @mofomoco
    @mofomoco Год назад +2

    AZ has more than enough water for Arizona. I wish these people wouldnt fear bait their viewers. This lady sounds so shady you can barely see her speaking. Listen to the plumbers who built the water system in this state, NOT ANGRY KARENS.

  • @sophiegonzalez2841
    @sophiegonzalez2841 Год назад +1

    WATER CRISIS AND BUILDING MORE HOMES ,I DONT GET IT ,?🤔

  • @ellenlandowski1659
    @ellenlandowski1659 Год назад +1

    Better slap some solar panels on those walls and put a bunch of wind machines across the top.

  • @martin4819
    @martin4819 Год назад

    Reading these comments and I get the impression people don’t realize what the main problem is. Did everyone attend ASU? 😂. Seriously, someone suggested the state should consult plumbers? 😳
    Agriculture probably accounts for 80% of water usage. Everyone knows not much can be grown in a desert without irrigation so that number shouldn’t surprise anyone. Worse yet a lot of what is being grown are water intensive crops out of short term greed. The world is getting warmer which is only going to exacerbate irrigation demands. AZ really needs to rethink what it grows and scale back its agriculture. I realize that would be a significant economic loss but what options does Arizona have? Not having enough water will kill of agriculture eventually anyways as well as introducing a lot of hardship for Arizonans . The larger problem is there aren’t any quick solutions. Even if the Great Lake states or Mississippi River states let u siphon off water (which they won’t) any sort of canal or pipeline would take decades to build. Even desalination plants take years to build and would significantly eat into Agricultures profitability. Obviously it makes more sense to have California desalinate and cut off CA Colorado River allocation. I get pools in AZ but does it really need all of its golf courses? Do they even use grey water to water them? AZ literally has some HOAs that require homeowners to plant trees and have a lawn! People move to the desert and then try to make it not look like a desert…..it’s dumb!

  • @ellenlandowski1659
    @ellenlandowski1659 Год назад +2

    Rainfall does not fill lakes and resviours...snow pack does and AZ hasn't had steady amounts of snow for years.

    • @willgilliam9053
      @willgilliam9053 Год назад

      haven't had good snow or any in a few decades now

  • @davecozzi9721
    @davecozzi9721 Год назад +1

    It just rained for 2 days straight. Where did the water go?????

    • @ellenlandowski1659
      @ellenlandowski1659 Год назад

      Not in to those resivoirs

    • @luminatrixfanfiction
      @luminatrixfanfiction Год назад

      @@ellenlandowski1659 Actually, not entirely true. The reason nothing happened is because those dams are being used to provide water to 40 million people when the dams aren't rated to sustain or support that overpopulation. It was built in the 60's where the population was barely 20 million. I'd give it maybe 2-3 years before the reservoirs dry up completely. Good luck.

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      @@luminatrixfanfiction We will just move in next to you and deplete your water supply. That's what the Earth's parasites do.

    • @luminatrixfanfiction
      @luminatrixfanfiction Год назад

      @@davecozzi9721 Not all countries are as parasitical as yours. And some have made conscious effort to preserve nature, and water supply.

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      @@luminatrixfanfiction Like I said before, they will move into those areas as soon as they completely ruin where they are now. Probably as illegal aliens,. That is already happening so it is not very far fetched.

  • @ernestchacon4928
    @ernestchacon4928 Год назад +4

    Where does all the water go with all the rain and snow melt after this rainy season?

    • @topflight6024
      @topflight6024 Год назад +4

      That's just 2% it's really nothing

    • @OnesteptotheRight
      @OnesteptotheRight Год назад +1

      Giant buildings known as DATA FARMS have sprouted up throughout the southwest, 192 nationwide. These buildings house tons and tons of servers. You probably wont believe me but each of these buildings WASTE, literally waste over one million gallons of public use water EVERY DAY . YES the same water intended to serve the residential and commercial properties is being wasted to cool massive data farms. Not joking, it's real. Most of them wont publicly disclose their daily water use. They claim it's not actually wasted as it goes into the sewer system, which ends up at a water treatment facility and after 4 months of intense filtration, it's injected back into the municipal water infrastructure .
      GOOGL was promised under contract no matter what happens, they will get 1.4 BILLION GALLONS to use as they wish over a ten month program. The rack servers generate so much heat that hydro cooling is the best way to cool these systems. It's hidden from the public, They never mention it in any of these news stories. Because they are all paid off by the companies that farm the data. Crazy Right ?

    • @topflight6024
      @topflight6024 Год назад

      @@OnesteptotheRightoh I believe it

    • @garcjr
      @garcjr Год назад +2

      We need at least ten years of that to make a difference. This winter was how they were when I was a kid.

    • @1just4laughs
      @1just4laughs Год назад +1

      Idk....maybe something to do with the 90°+ temperature for 200 days out of the year

  • @letthedeedshaw7541
    @letthedeedshaw7541 Год назад +2

    This atmospheric river should fill the reservoirs...

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Год назад

      California's reservoirs are currently 35% full and with any luck after this next round of storms perhaps they will be at 40%, but the Colorado river doesn't flow down from California.

  • @TheLakers81
    @TheLakers81 Год назад +1

    The Feds don't seemed too concerned so I'm good

    • @dryheat3633
      @dryheat3633 Год назад

      I would be next door down south that country there is running out of water it's at the point to where they got tanker trucks filling up stores businesses because nothing's flowing through the pipes. People are coming here and literally stealing our water the feds don't care because they're paid to make it rain.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Год назад +1

      The feds just demanded 2 -4 million acre feet of water cuts, and that's pretty concerned.

  • @ajcics
    @ajcics Год назад +4

    *Buys house in the middle of an arid desert along with thousands of other geniuses over the decades
    Gee whiz guys I wonder why we are running out of water

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      Because we also let it go the California and Nevada, who waste more than we do and we have 200+ golf courses.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Год назад

      @@davecozzi9721 The water doesn't belong to you, and honestly it doesn't even belong to the United States of America.

  • @deathunter25
    @deathunter25 Год назад +1

    Prayer is our only hope

  • @letthedeedshaw7541
    @letthedeedshaw7541 Год назад

    What about all this rain???

    • @callmethreeone
      @callmethreeone Год назад

      Unfortunately the ground is so dry it will not make it to the proper tributaries, landslides change the topography and this could also have an impact on things. We are also seeing warmer temperatures which means the air can hold more water. This is why we use hot air to dry things, the warmer the air is the amount of water it can hold is exponentially multiplied.

  • @millicentpepion
    @millicentpepion Год назад +2

    Too bad there's no way for us to make homeowners use and recycle their own pool water. How many gallons does it take to fill those again? How often do they need to be drained and filled to maintain? That'd be some bs if they give farmers less allocations so Cindy Lu Who and her friends can swim privately while the rest of us starve.

    • @asuchemist3371
      @asuchemist3371 Год назад +1

      Pools need to be drained about every 3-4 years. Average pool size let say is 15,000 gallons.
      Most of the farmers are farming for feed for milk cows. some farmers are out of country farmers using our water for their produce.
      Pools aren’t the problem.
      Water leaks, improper landscape watering, server facilities, etc use a lot of water.
      See the Colorado River usage rights. The usage allotment was oversold. It does not have enough water capacity to cover the agreements.
      Purchase water sense faucets and toilets.

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад +1

      @@asuchemist3371 Correct. Pools are not an issue. We do not drain them for the winter so, no refilling. I've lived here all my life and have never drained a pool for any reason besides repair.
      We provide more power and water to other states than we take for ourselves.

    • @cheryljoseph787
      @cheryljoseph787 Год назад

      They need to be outlawed.

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      @@cheryljoseph787 Pools need to be outlawed?
      Please do some research before just lashing out.

    • @cheryljoseph787
      @cheryljoseph787 Год назад

      @@davecozzi9721 out west yes,pools should be illegal.

  • @alksjda
    @alksjda Год назад

    Living in AZ lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @johnpalmieri
    @johnpalmieri Год назад +3

    If there’s such a big water crisis, why are all these factories and homes being built all over Gilbert, Mesa, and throughout the valley? Tell me. Someone tell me please. 🥸

    • @davecozzi9721
      @davecozzi9721 Год назад

      So all the people coming here from India have somewhere to work and make more money than all of us. It's the American way.

    • @mari_e2676
      @mari_e2676 Год назад

      Same over here in Surprise and west valley.

    • @TZach1987
      @TZach1987 Год назад +1

      The Arizona Dept of Water Resources 100 year assured supply is not always true and was based on very rosy assumptions. This need to be fixed!

  • @jasziegl8983
    @jasziegl8983 Год назад +1

    Build Desalination plants and canals, and take the desalinated seawater from the sea to fill the reservoirs inland.
    Cost too high? Not at all. What do you think it will cost if we run out of water? It will cost more than money. We will pay in lives.
    Besides, the cost of building a couple desalination plants and canals is nothing compared to terraforming entire planets. Why are we getting worked up about the cost of baby toys? We haven't even begun.

    • @mofomoco
      @mofomoco Год назад

      You are trying too hard. Look deeper and there is NO water crisis in AZ. AROUND AZ has many problems. ARIZONAS BIGGEST WATER PROBLEM IS THE SURROUNDING STATES STEALING OUR WATER.

    • @jasziegl8983
      @jasziegl8983 Год назад

      @@mofomoco crises from heaven reveal the failure of the state

    • @Favorite-catNip
      @Favorite-catNip Год назад

      Ppl. Are stupid. But the dwindling reservoirs will continue to decline. Lots of luck ppl. In reading by candlelight & Not cooling your Homes.

    • @cheryljoseph787
      @cheryljoseph787 Год назад

      That will also solve the water level increase. Good idea.

  • @Arizona_rider
    @Arizona_rider Год назад +1

    We are made in his image… we are made up of water. Once the water is gone.. so is life…