Crisis on the Colorado River: Here's why Minnesotans should care
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2022
- The Colorado River supplies water to millions of people in the U.S. and Mexico, but as water levels drop, there's a lot at stake for those out west and in Minnesota.
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Scottsdale is no longer providing water to rio verde in 6 weeks! These are homes worth a pretty penny. Soon they might be dry and deserted
When crossing over the Colorado River last week at the CA/AZ border, the river looked like a marshy swamp. I've never seen it look like that ever before. Very, very serious times ahead for water use.
This rain that’s been biting has increased it but only by like 1.2 inches ;(
I've watched many videos about the southwest water crisis and this is one of the best.
Lol, don't worry about it. Water has been chosen as the new profit replacer for oil.
nice job touching on the impact to the tribes
I don't think that many readers pick up on your sarcasm.
if it goes on for a quarter century it’s not really a drought. The Colorado’s flow is expected to diminish another 20% over the next 30 years.Things are different now. We have to make choices over which productive capacity to sacrifice to save others.
Yes it is long term climate change.
It will be hotter and drier in the West.
From Arizona PBS: Arizona is leasing farmland to a Saudi water company, straining aquifers, and threatening future water supply in Phoenix. Fondomonte, a Saudi company, exports the alfalfa to feed its cows in the Middle East. The country has practically exhausted its own underground aquifers there
why when our cities are in drought they still can use underground waters to farm and send back alfalfa to there land to feed there animals
Send saudies the bill.
Saudi 'Fondomonte' also grows alfalfa in the Palo Verde Valley CA. on farmland either sold and or leased to them by local longtime farmers.
@@salvadorgarcia4327 allot other countries have farms and use our water here or buy it
Insane! Alfalfa grown in a desert in the Southwest U.S. and shipped to another desert in Saudi Arabia.Why don't the Saudis just build another desalination plant and use the water to grow their own alfalfa? They certainly have plenty of oil & gas energy resources to power a desalination plant, as well as to produce petrochemcial fertilizers. Answer: it was cheaper to buy U.S. alfalfa. And, by the way, why is the Federal Government paying farmers not to grow alfalfa? More insanity. If there is insufficient water to grow the crop, then just stop planting it. Read Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert". Come January 1 2023, the s**t is going to hit the fan in Arizona, because the only path forward is to use 21% less water. It will be interesting to watch this play out.
We have a law in Minnesota that says its illegal to sell/transport ground water more than 50 miles. So f the southwest. I will stop any attempt to take our water.
Arizona is not the land of 1000 lakes!
@@RT-gq3bh its the land of HPV
And Ilhan Omar, too.
@@RT-gq3bh Please take the hag.
For the average person, if water flows from their faucet, there is no urgency
This has a simple solution.
Agricultural needs to drastically cut it's use.
Yep so u can fill ur swimming pools. After that u starve.
@@deutzallis6497
They are growing Cotton, Alfalfa and Grass in a Desert!
Not starving if they cut back on the water use for those types of crops.
The farmers need to find a way to use way less water with their current crops or different crops that use less water already.
I feel for the farmers but they are the biggest user's of that water.
There isn't a solution that doesn't include massive reduction in use from farmers.
thats not the problem the cause is the grand ditch which was built to divert snowmelt east instead of it flowing into the Colorado river
They used to call those people greenhorns, unprepared for desert travel, they'd run out of water and you'd find their parched bones lying in the sand. And if they survived it's because they were more than willing to steal someone else's water.
Don’t have grass yards in the desert, and they will never get the Great Lakes, the states surrounding the lakes are United in protecting them because they realize the importance of the resource
Yes that's a problem, but the drought is now spreading Eastward - the Mississippi River is now extremely low.
The problems are: drought, increasing temperatures and climate change.
"The States surrounding the lakes are united" Its crazy talk like that, that will see the semi auto ban become a reality. Let's see you stand when federal agents show up.
@@rolfbattlec7672 "Climate change" is as old as our planet, and is natural. "Global warming" is the unintentional rise in greenhouse gasses. The great rise in temperatures and the great drought that we see today, are both intentional.
@@johnnymcblaze check it out, these states have set guidelines for the lakes and all the surrounding states must vote to change any agreements, good luck, states have rights to their waterways, ha feds they won’t mess with the lakes, to bad you’ll have to dig up your grass and take it out of the desert
@@johnnymcblaze the Great lakes agreement already prohibits removal of water from outside the Great lakes watershed.
Canada would also want a say in any water removal from the Great lakes
Why do they still allow so much boat traffic at this point?
No, the upper Midwest won't give any water nor would it be feasible to canal or pipe it here over thousands of miles, through hundreds of private properties. That would take decades of lawsuits and billions of dollars to construct and it won't happen. People in the Southwest U.S. are simply screwed, there's no other way to put it.
We are all screwed too since the price of fruits, vegetables, nuts and meat will go up.
There aren't potable water issues, how are people screwed?
the problem is the grand ditch which was built to divert the snowmelt east instead of flowing into Colorado river
Someone already did a study on the allocation of water; its not the people watering their lawn, vegas water shows, or even golf courses - its the water usage in agriculture and specifically products not meant for human consumption (aka alfalfa) - something like 40%, now think of everything that relies on that product (cattle, exports, etc.) and you can see where we can save water
True. It is the agricultural industry that is to blame for this. Farmers are on the front lines of this crisis, it is them who must change the most
@@phole1100 crops need water and ppl need food. Changes need to come from things we dont need…green grass, golf courses, water shows etc. then we can limit farmers. Lets not limit the survival of everyone to cater to the rich bc once water goes…whos gonna still be drinking water while playing on their golf courses? Rich people.
@@thisismyusername6717 i agree that we don't need those things. But those are not the things that actually cause this issue, a vast majority of all water used if for agriculture. If we were to get rid of golf courses it still wouldn't save nearly enough water. It is the farms that have to go. We are at carrying capacity in the US West.
@@phole1100 Yep, I mean some farmers need it, like ones that grow crops for humans consumption, but they need to curve the export and non-human ag related ones
@@johnnixon1671 Definately. We need farms. We need to stop the over farming. Our agricultural impact has to be reduced. Exporting farms should absolutely be removed. We need to save all that water for human consumption and for growing food for AMERICANS. Not feeding cattle in the Middle East. If we shut down these exporting farms there will be more water for everybody and everything.
Alfalfa is one of the most water intensive crops. That farmer is choking every other farmer growing food for us to eat and towns and cities, so he can raise fodder for export and feed cattle for export. The choice is US or him changing his ways.
What about the 100 year well lease in Michigan giving bottled water to Nestle for practically nothing and not many employees.
Why does it seem to matter to you how many employees a company with water rights has?
@@nunyabidness3075 Because they promised many jobs would be created which was a lie.
@@PJ-vw4zu Promised? Your politicians didn’t get it in writing? Sounds familiar. United Airlines scammed Houston big time. All they got was gate leases at the airport though. I hope we raised their rent.
No cut to California nice, Lake Mead contract is to reduce water to NV and AZ but not CA. there is more to to the story on those 500 homes, They built without access to water and not expect to have rights.
LOL, California is in a water crisis too, the reason why they get water from the river is because that's where 46 percent of fruit and nut production is which accounts for 62 percent of the national value and over a third of the countries vegetables come from California. When you account for the products made from these things, that's a whole lot of California feeding the nation. There are whole counties in California that are completely out of water.
Install rain collectors, storage and filter systems.
why aren't they cutting California's allotment? California should be held as much accountable if not more so than everyone else
Glad I don't own prop in NV or AZ, no water no value.
who ever manages the reservoir, it is because they let more water out than comes in, simple math, it is like they are doing it on purpose
And I oop
actually that is quite wrong the main cause of the shortage is because of the grand ditch. That takes majority of the snowmelts water and diverts it east instead of flowing into the Colorado river.
GREAT reporting.
The report failed to mention that California receives the largest allotment from the Colorado River system.
Build in the middle of the desert. What were they thinking? Just dumb!
Who here thinks Meade is that low only because of a drought?
Not me.
I live near Las Cruces, NM now very, very dry here. This year we have received all of 4.38 inches and that is it,
Check your drought map, Nate. Las Cruces is out of drought designation.
@@RT-gq3bh how can you sit here and tell a man that lives there what you see on a screen is more true than what he sees?
The Rio Grande River at Las Cruces, NM is very low mainly due to problems way up stream. Where I live, the drought map is accurate. I know because all the hills are covered with green grass and wildflowers.
I feel for the people who have shortage of water and here I am stuck in my house in Buffalo, New York , need to go out to buy food. My car 🚘 is buried under snow.
And I oop
Please, be aware that both emergencies are related, connect and created by the same issue: climate change caused by global warming caused by centuries of unrelenting fossil fuels burning caused by uncontrolled human population growth. If you have not seen the Al Gore documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, I suggest watching it. BTW, both the iced covered ground and waterless surfaces are deserts, same as bodies of water, fresh and salty. Thanks and be well.
Las Vegas is in the desert… duh….
Good job on this reporting angle.
It's time to quit watering lawns in all five of those states, closing the golf courses, build some desalination plants , waste water recycling plants, and reusing waste water. Either that or there will be a mass exodus from those states affected by this.
This right here is a great example of why HOA's should be made illegal.
Lake Minnetonka had no water under docks in around 1985-87 UNTIL MN got around 12 INCHES of rain in one NIGHT in 1987 . Weather cycles are vicous , have occured, are occuring , and will occur again . Sad but true. But man has zero to do with it . Yes we need clean air and water . But call it accurately .
No water in the Desert .....who knew
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Sk sk
Las Vegas is a model city for water conservation WHILE California has a GIANT STRAW going to the Colorado River and has made no efforts in water conservation and hasn't been asked to do ANYTHING!!!
I have a great idea. Don't grow crops in a dessert.
Most productive farm land in the world
Too many people , not enough resources. One day we’ll have to walk away from our homes due to no water. Now , there is no place on Earth that isn’t in drought just look at England.
Why would anyone put a boat in their drinking water ?
Our species developed sustainable solutions for arid & boundary desert living thousands of years ago. We are in these problems by grafting non-consetvatory lifestyles to areas that cannot support the urban metros & commercial farming in CA, AZ, & NV.
Exactly! Look at Salt Lake City area, they continue all that unsustainable growth with no water and the religious majority prides itself on popping out more kids. No building mandates no birth control since it is a bee hive state.
All the snow that fell on new york this year if melted would not fill lake mead, it took the Colorado SEVEN YEARS to do it.
Some here Minnesota I'm a community.I see some off the two lakes that dry already.I wished I was a chief engineer I would get a biggest tank of water pour it and get a water that go to it continuously so it won't be dry.
I moved to AZ from MN 20 years ago. I'm well aware of this situation & have been witnessing it first hand.
Of all the states dependent on the Colorado, only one is NOT required to make any cuts or concessions regarding water use. They're also the state that has done the least to expand reservoirs & water collection efforts. All in the name of environmentalism, of course. Take a guess which it is.
Another Democrat state lol The dems are fulfilling Scripture . I all for that.
Commiefornia
I am in Cali and it is obvious not of the past governors both Dem and Rep never had a real conservation plan for water even though historically it is an arid state.
The movie Chinatown is based on the issue. Cali has always had droughts plus all Western states.
No politician wants to be the bearer of bad tiding by a restrictive but necessary water mandate. The are thinking about the fundraising and political careers. We are in a state 2 water conservation which is a freakin joke when it should be Stage 4 permanently.
We get a few sprinkles of water and Californians who most are transplants continue to abuse our precious limited resource
Please explain the “Grand Ditch”! Before a normal drought!
All of the water from the Colorado river and Lake Mead has been over allocated.
We all need to cut back on our water usage. Agriculture is wasting their very cheap and
nearly free water. Why are they growing alphalpha, cotton, and hay to be sent overseas
to those who are gouging us for oil?
Ummmm why is Minasota not paying for pipes and pumping water from Devils Lake North Dakaota???????? If anyone doesn't understand or know what I'm talking about do your research.. it grew for the 90's and still keeps growing
The region is semi-arid to desert so droughts are expected. It has been dryer and wetter, the cycle will continue.
America with the infrastructure plan needs to deal with this crisis. Canada has too much water. We need to work together and build aqueducts.
I don't think he should grow alfalfa Simply because Alfalfa roots go down 40' - Sucking up all the water. Times change - farmers should change their crop appropriately
Hope with one hand and wish with the other and see how fast your water fills up .
Green lawns, water loving plants and trees, golf courses, etc, none of these belong in the arid southwest.
Don't move from the Northeast and South and try and remake the landscape to look like your former home.
The "crisis" is man made by ignoring the obvious. The old saying goes " whiskey os for drinking, water is for fighting".
It was never the bottom of the lake. This was always meant to be nature. Thats how nature designed it to be.
You can't power the dam if the water is never replaced. The dam should never release water.
here we go
I am from the Palo Verde Valley, true these local farmers always mention of having senior rights to the Colorado. Though what they are incapable of would be to give a 'gracefull thank you to the river', a river that owns itself and owes nothing to these local farmers now on the 'marginal' path.
Salvador read how the Salton Sea was formed.
farmers shouldn’t farm in the dessert common sense smh 🤦♂️
The remnants that created the Salton Sea, the Alamo Canal and Green River that are now utilized to feed irrigation runoff 'poisoned waters' into the Salton Sea. And now the All American Canal 'diverted from the Colorado' a part of it's course goes through the upper Colorado River Delta known as the Glamis Sand Dunes or 'las harinas de San Luis' one of the driest and hottest regions in the U.S
if not the world. Unexplainable how 'lithium' created itself in the Salton Basin.
Man has responsibility, not power. - Tuscarora proverb 1:09 Missing from someplace it never was in the first place.
If all the icebergs melted like gore said they would we would have plenty of water.
Nooooo !!!!!
You don’t miss the water till.....................!
How come they didn't cut the biggest user. California?
Farms may have been first but wasn't near as big. Exporting water intensive crops is not sustainable and water shouldn't be owned by anyone it should be for everyone!!!!
Why has the lake dropped ?
This is seriously a question? Lakes need water to remain lakes, most have ingoing and outgoing streams, evaporation takes an enormous hit, ground seepage takes more, but this one is real simple, no snow in the Rockies means no water come spring. Megadrought. Mega is as strong as it gets. Maybe we should use terms like tremendous and bigly to drive home the dire circumstances of climate change to that 40% of Americans who continue to eat up the lies that distract us from actually doing something. I have little sympathy for people who choose to build in deserts and somehow water is suddenly an issue. I however live in the Oregon Cascades and have witnessed the steep decline in snowpack firsthand since the 1970's. Because of illegal pumping by alfalfa farmers nearby, my well gives me just enough water to shower and flush a toilet once in the morning. I have to calculate times to do things like washing clothes and dishes (handwashed now), there is no hope of saving my orchard, the lawn has been dead and brown for several years now and this is now winter and it looks like the aquifer is going to take some time to refill only to get poached again this coming spring. 2023 may be the tipping year where I will probably lose my home. What value is land without water resources? Out in eastern Oregon you can still buy land at $100 an acre.....and there's good reason why it has no value. You can't eat sagebrush.
Where has all the water gone? The Arctic? The Clouds? Is it up walking around? (Billions of people at 90% water) It sure isn't where we need it.
the problem is what they call the grand ditch which diverts most of the snowmelt that is supposed to flow into the Colorado and channels it east
We built a lake in the desert....and now are surprised mother nature more powerful than engineers?
I bet the blame mostly goes to Nestle!
California takes the most water from the Colorado River and there was no cut to them. See a problem there????
"The farmer where here first" everyone was a farmer back then boomer.
The Colorado was over allocated they day the dams came into operation. It was never viable.
It's really hurting his feelings isn't it....first time I ever saw a yank...not cry about his feelings!
The Population Has Exploded in Phoenix Las Vegas Back East it's Snowbirds to Florida Out West Same Thing Only To Phoenix and Las Vegas All Those Golf Courses and Swimming Pools and Those Water Fountains Also The Colorado River Supply's Water to 12 States
Colorado +California+ Utah+ Nevada+ Arizona and Mexico =6 SIX STATES
@@terriec808 WRONG ! Both of Us The Colorado River flows for approximately 1,450 miles and provides water to seven states in the Western U.S. that are part of the Colorado River Basin. Divided into two regions; the Upper Basin includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; and the Lower Basin includes Arizona, California, and Nevada.👍
Ya. Build a house in the desert and wonder where you'll get water. Is that what I JUST WATCHED? Come on man!!
Your logo almost loks like KareN extra caus of the two ones... Had too look twice 😘
It’s madness to turn desert into green space for living it’s a freaking desert
big money is and always has been the reason for this river being tapped out of existence; yes there are and were droughts, but the largest problem is people populating a desert for the comfort of climate, the unrealistic farming of this region for crops not meant to be grown here, and the denial that comes with greed.
In the video, the boater launching a power boat after driving miles in a vehicle towing the boat, creating emissions that accelerate global warming, is clueless he is part of the problem.
Las Vegas sold all that water 🤣
Why is it dropping where is the water going maybe we should ask Nestlé
were not told this thats why but the problem is the grand ditch which was built to divert snowmelt east instead of it flowing west into the Colorado river
We keep blaming the drought… the truth is, the population has more than doubled since 1970! That’s the big elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.
The allocation of water to 7 states must be modified or the lakes will no longer be valuable
Too many damn people on this planet!
1200 years is a politically driven wild guess!
What do you expect moving tens of millions into a arid desert 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have no pity, greed did this and continues to make it worse.
people should come before his greed. WTH
Why don’t they mandate no growth in all water starved states? Before the water starved areas ask for more water or desal plants they rarely of no never mandate alll lawns to be pulled out
Instead of conserving continuously they go right to ripping off water like they did to Owens Valley for Los Angeles.
Another thing this issue is worldwide
Our plant cannot sustain this huge human population, and it sucks you cannot mandate zero population growth.
Even if the do the desal plants does not eliminate all of the salts. I evidsbly the people who drink desal water will die quickly because our bodies cannot process the salt.
The particular salt in sea water is too fine for filters.
So in essence we have to run out of water, increase water wars, cities will no longer be viable. Waste products will build up because of no water. Disease will ensue. Migrations will happen and battles against newbies in area.
We humans are too selfish to stop having babies, they in turn want more housing to accommodate expanding families.
The only solution sorry to say to to allow this current disaster to continue so as to allow the chaos, disease and destruction man has created to reduce population because humans although intelligent are not able to make rational decisions for humanity.
Water and oil is money and actually more important
Let's see...people choose to live in the desert, and they find themselves in a bind because it's difficult or impossible to find water...
Who'd a thunk it!
Every year in the US somewhere gets flooding rains that are so bad the people are on TV crying because they lost their homes and then that rain just washes down into the ocean if we're so worried about it we need to start capturing it everywhere we can. Because the West is never going to see rain unless you want to start chopping down the mountains. most of Nevada is as dry as it is because they live in the rain shadow of the mountains in California. the only way we are going to do anything is to transport water from where there's alot of it, over to where there is none. or nuke bomb the mountains out of the way
Where are you gonna get the energy and man power to build that?
You're correct, Nevada is in a rain shadow, but still plenty of potable water for people's needs. When you know that over 80% of the water is used to grow Ag, Ag that is shipped & contributes to the food supply of over 700 million people, then obviously potable water usage isn't the issue.
Better STOP the Geoengineering Weather Modification going on!!!!!!!!!!!
Do try to learn about it! EPA is one of the big money providers.
Mn water under treaty with Canada no one can have it
So ya know. The someone's decided you need a permit to film there. What are they covering up? And it seems like a constitutional violation
Nevada still has all the water evaporating in the desert heat to show off fountains. I'd rather have it to drink. All these States have their BIG Wasters and fines aren't enough. They still can't agree so nothing changes😂
No mention of how much water Las Vegas is using, to simply entertain. Be it the fountain show at The Bellagio, which each time they run the show, a whole lot of water just evaporates into the hot dry air in each fountain blast. The pools, the golf courses, and the millions of tourists requiring all that running water. Besides that, there are a whole lot of other nefarious things at play to make such a sudden drastic drop in the water levels. A drought alone isn’t responsible. This is big gov.
Las Vegas is actually surprisingly efficient with their water use. The numbers show that, per capita, their water use is much lower than most other cities. I assuming they aren't the _most_ efficient, but I am not aware of where that might be.
Private gated communities and golf courses are much worse for water waste.
Wrong - Dummy. You will continue to get FREE water living in your moms basement…………
@@jasonthemason1971 hope that wasn’t aimed at me. Own my home, and it’s paid off,…so are both my vehicles. But hey, thanks for playing.
Nevada has very little Colorado River rights. The river only passes by Nevada for a small fraction of its length and there is virtually no farming. So in Nevada, officials have decided that the water consumed at the Bellagio is more important than a lawn at 10,000 new houses. In Arizona, you can buy water for a new lawn from Indians who have no desire to use it for farming
@@RT-gq3bhthat’s why Nevada and Las Vegas recycles their water because the allotment is so little for us anyways and we never go over the allotment because we bring it back to the lake. I live in Vegas.
Boating causes more water to evaporate....
PTB probably sucked out more than figured. And why are special jets constantly spaying blue skies with mist that lingers changing to a cloud?
Just decided to leave California out of the cuts? Hmmm. 🤔🤫
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors to run desalination plants.
If that guy is "losing money" by getting paid not to farm his alfalfa fields aren't drug addicts losing more money by not quitting drugs and getting a job?
Shouldn't drug addicts get tax credits for losing revenue?
Pray, and prayer harder and harder!
SAVE WATER THEY DON'T MAKE IT ANY MORE!!!!!!
I think the states better manage their water better when you have a 300 mile aquifer going through the desert from the Colorado River that evaporates over 2 million gallons a day and it has its own ecosystem . And then you have the gall to shut down the water from other cities so you can suck it up. In California is just if not worse. The Colorado River doesn't even make the ocean anymore. You all have swimming pools and some of the biggest lawns you could start national parks in. Too bad so sad
You built the house in the desert what do you expect
Cities out west should have been recycling their water for decades now. LA should already have a desalination plant and be off fresh water.