Its intentional. Create long term problems so you can have and continue long term solutions which equals lots of money and kick backs over many decades. No extra money for the politician if the problem actually is fixed. .
@@nicholaslash8760 Climate change is the long term problem and the solution is to stop polluting the atmosphere. Since you are unwilling to do that you will lose your civilization. Enjoy!
Well flower, sounds like you are a sky is falling type of person. Good luck waiting on the worst to happen while the best is happening and you couldnt tell the difference between the ghost stories and reality of the world actually in front of you. Good news is you can change your perspective
Fixing the problem isnt profitable for politicians who can kick the problem down the road and continue to get kickbacks from various sources due to the problem. Solve the problem, no extra goodies for the goody bag on that topic. It's like doctors and medicine, no cures why? Because you dont have big dollars if people arent sick. So make them always think they are sick and powerless. Having lawns makes the valley cooler. Having asphalt and decorative rocks raises temps by more than 60 degrees. That can truly impact a neighborhood
We knew about this problem more than 5 years ago. I’d like to know who were the geniuses that keep giving building permits to builders to still continue to build residential and commercial properties in Nevada, southern Utah and Arizona? I’m sure the paid offs were well worth it to the local politicians.
It's been a known issue for decades, not 5 years. We've long known that we live in a desert and that water is a critical resource. When I moved in 20 years ago, the house we bought didn't even have the option of a desert landscape in the front yard- we HAD to get grass. Clearly, the people in charge never thought this was a real problem.
Lol. Developers own the state houses in too many cases. Development of real estate generates a lot of income and a lot of revenue. The most logical thing to do is limit real estate Development, but then it's nit a free market any more. The sad truth is, if water runs out, property will be worth nothing. They complain about the expense and energy to desalination ocean water, but they could use green energy. If they have to pay more for water, maybe they'll understand its value
State, County and County leaders were warned about this even as far back as the mid 80's. the Las Vegas valley was never meant to support such a large population. and were also warned that Las Vegas was going to end up as one of the first great American ghost cities and yet short sighted politicians call for more and denser development in the Las Vegas Valley. it's insane!
There is not a golf course in Southern Nevada that is watering with anything but gray water. NOT Colorado River Water. A POSSIBLE exception are the riverside courses in Laughlin area
I love how they need to show someone using a faucet to demonstrate water. That sure says something frightening about the target audience for local news
Don't forget that democrats are very stupid and if someone doesn't show them that water comes out of a faucet, they are too brainless to know otherwise.
They drained the natural aquifers in Vegas between 1930-1960s. Then they started siphoning water from lake mead at a 90% clip. The population boom is very much part of the problem, but so is the increase in annual temps. Less snowpack refilling lake mead and powell, along with more surface evaporation during the spring/summer months.... Unless they figure out that water desalination is probably the way to avert a major crisis, Vegas and Phoenix are in for some rough times.
Having lived in Colorado my entire life. It sure does feel like it snows and rains here a lot less. Wild fires also seem more prevalent and frequent. I’m not surprised the southwest region is facing a water crisis. I’m sorry the words “climate change” hurts your feelings, but putting your head in the sand won’t make the problem go away.
@@thomyi Not sure why you think my feelings were hurt here. You do realize there can be multiple causes to a specific problem right? And if you focus on one cause while ignoring the other (possibly larger) cause then you aren't really contributing much toward the solution.
When the lake was first created it served a population of around 100,000 and the area was mostly desert. Now the population is approaching 3,000,000 . Gee, I wonder where the water went...I just can't figure it out.
Wrong the weather patterns are virtually the same. I definitely think we should bring in another 50 to 100 million more people though. Sarcasm. Just in case it’s to hard for you to understand
Plus the fact that tourism to the city has increased dramatically. I like the stupid comments on this forum about a drought being the cause, lol. Only a dumbacrap would believe this lie, they believe all the garbage the lying politicians spoon feed them. They are truly a pathetic bunch!
Yep, when I went to High School in Las Vegas, it was a city of not quite 300,000, I LOVED living there and it has been very distressing to see my home town / State being completely overrun. the Las Vegas Valley was never meant to support as large of a population as there is there now, (same goes for the Phoenix Metro Area) and yet, I hear short sighted politicians calling for more and denser development. it's insane. And worse yet, the "alarm" was sounding even back in the mid 80's, early 90's. the whole situation makes me SICK!
David, you have hit the nail squarely. Development plans are never complete, not from the word go. Build a water network, build an electrical grid, build roads, harbors, towns etc and do this in 1950s - 1980s. Sound familiar to you all in the western USA, sorry I'm describing South Africa, it's the same in many western countries. Our problem begins when a City/State or even country starts to exceed natures capacity to replenish fresh water river systems, they start to exceed the road network capacity, the electrical supply capacity, even the waste disposal capacity. But why, eg. Cape Town grew from 600k in 1950 to 1.6M in 1980 and 3.6M in 2010 and now close to 4.8M, and it has a cyclic climate linked to El Nino, so long dry years followed 3-5 Wet. But the capacity to do this "Store when Wet, Use When dry" was exceeded in the mid 2000s SO? it's called diminishing reserves. Wait LA , and others, water RATIONING will soon be your new norm. NO NEW infrastructure like dams, water transfer schemes etc means NO MORE urban expansion. It's the same for ALL services, roads, sewage, health care and schools etc. If only the persons tasked with permit approval began looking into development from a resource availability and sustainability perspective they may see what is wrong.
I dont think its the drought, I think it's mainly due to over development and over population in a desert region that demand to much water. The population in those region in the 1970, 1980, 1990 was relatively small and didnt demand as much water compared to the population from 2010 to 2022.
Too much water is wasted into Mexico. America-Mexico has an agreement that America will release so much water into Mexico even if that is at the expense of the American people.
@@edwardhanson3664 I a dubious of the claims of extreme drought. Tree ring studies show that this is a common occurrence over thousands of years. Compared to the amount of rain falling in the desert in the 80's you could call it a drought. Compare it with much dryer periods in history, and it is just part of the desert cycle. As far as the headwaters we have 130 to 160% of the snow pack so there is no drought on the divide. What has changed is deep water drilling. Farmers are emptying the aquifer, and the river is soaking into the soil to try to make up for it. In the near future if the pumping continues to increase there will be no water flow past Arizona.
Lets see. 1 want to live in the desert. 2 want non polluting, no carbon energy 3 want green grass for the golf course. 4 want fresh produce grown locally. OKee lets all move there. Funny part my uncle bought 20 acres from a celery farmer 2 miles from the border 70 years ago. Grew prickly pear cactus cuz water was expensive. 70 years later the people that live there caught the stupid virus. It is not climate change it is brain change. I believe it when a geologist tells me it has been changing for 10,000 years. Without our help. How can I say such a stupido thing? Let look at the parallel line that goes through Chattanooga, TN. Wanna bet it the same as LA? So I have been in the Mojave in summer and summer in Chattanooga. How much you want to bet the average 24 hour daily temperatures are the same? Maybe because it the same sun is shining at the same angle? What kind of effect does the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have on that? I bet 1 C change at 00 00 lat and long has a bit of effect? ya think? And that is in the Atlantic Ocean 30% land and 70 water. Water is used on IC engines to do what? I can tell the Pacific is a big chunk of water because I have sailed across it to Australia from the port of LA and back. Been at the international date and the equator too. Actually it is quite comfortable on the equator in the middle of the Pacific
@@jaychah2563 two things. You obviously missed my point. Second, if you think I waste that much water everyday, you would be wrong. The city came out and changed my meter because I use so much less water than everybody else that they thought my meter was broken.
Slow down? The new venues are more water conscious than a handful of old ones. And with housing in Vegas COMPLETELY UNAFFORDABLE to all but old time owners and illegals willing to turn the lawns into parking lots and live 20 deep in a three bedroom house, the building won't be stopping anytime soon.
I love how the evening news gives us a visual of what it looks like when someone's faucet is running. Like we wouldn't have been able to know what on earth they were talking about if they didn't do that.
Living in South Africa, a dry nation, I am amazed that the dam levels have been allowed to drop this low. In the Cape Town Area any dam below 50% capacity triggers water restrictions. And I really mean water RESTRICTIONS. No hose pipe usage at all, no auto irrigation except commercial agriculture and the real kicker 50 liters (approx 12 gallon US) per person per household per day. You soon learn to conserve.
It’s time to seriously enact landscaping restrictions in all 7 of these states. Wasting water on lawns etc. in the desert is stupid. Many Colorado cities are limiting new construction landscaping to low or no water use.
There are cost limits, when it costs so much no one can afford it then it's not worth doing. When a load of bread cost $50 and you still make 40k a year are you still gonna buy bread? There's already a severe trucker shortage and you wanna start hauling water 8000 gallons at a time to population centers that use hundreds of millions of gallons a day? 🤣🤣🤣 Good plan.
@@vegaslimoguy2376 there's two downfalls to desaltizsion. One being behind the curve. Second to cost. It would make much more sense to pipe in fresh water from historic flood zones like the Mississippi river.
GET RID OF ORNAMENTAL GRASS!!! Rock landscape should be mandatory and if you want to have a big green lawn in the desert then your rates should be 10x higher than normal. This is the DESERT, water is for drinking, not for your dam lawn!!
Lol, las vegas translates into "the meadows" not the desert. Lake mead is a fake lake. Having grass reduces the temperature. The real problem is all the asphalt being black. It retains too much heat. It is 20 degrees cooler just outside of vegas. Took heat measurements last year, grass was more than 40 degrees cooler than concrete and ornamental rocks in the front yard. The asphalt was over 160. If you want vegas to be even hotter then by all means forbid lawns. But know this, rich people have lawns and use up all the water they want. If water becomes a real problem you will see plenty of action done. They had no problems changing the topography of the area by adding the largest man made lake in the usa. They created literal climate change in doing that. But sure, worry about some grass that will make life better of the person that lives there.
@@nicholaslash8760 to each their own then. We have been in drought for over a decade? now and temperatures are just getting hotter. I'd love to see your empirical data showing that some HOA and their overwatwatered lawns is going to somehow have a positive effect on Vegas with their cooling?! I have extensive 1st hand experience dealing with homeowners, HOA's, Businesses etc, about their lawns and if they watered them properly it wouldn't be such an epidemic. But the callous/selfish nature of "I'm paying for it so I'll do what I want" is exactly what is wrong here. If you want to roll in the grass then go to a park.
Weird you are worried about that but not the fact that when you buy water every month your minimum payment is for a certain amount of water allocation. Twll the water company to stop charging for an allotment and then trying to get poor people to not use it through various regulations and advertisements. Rich people then get to pay a little extra and use the water that was allotted but not used due to various practices that aim to prevent poor people from having a better life by having a yard they can be in with their kids. And as far as the parks go, get them to stop allowing dogs to piss and poo all over every park like it's their personal toilet and then maybe we would want to take our kids to the parks. But everytime we go to the park dog poo all over. That is the reason i put grass in backyard. Temperatures being lower, no dog poo or pee, and because i pay for a water allotment that legal i can use. If that's a problem then tell them to reduce the water allotment and price. Otherwise y pou are getting mad at people for using what they pay for.
@@nicholaslash8760 I can't take your friendly "debate" seriously sir. My concern is keeping enough potable water for the people of Vegas to drink, to LIVE. But your concern is the rich people getting their "alloted" water so they can 'play on their lawn with their kids'?! (People don't pay for an 'allotment', they pay for their total monthly use). The only allotment is with the Colorado River Commission which continues to fk Vegas in favor of California. But if a green lawn is what you seek than Las Vegas was a POOR choice and should consider a move to the upper NW USA.
You are missing my point completely and there wasnt a debate. You are crying about poor people. You aim your weapon in the wrong direction and blindly shoot, be ause that is what you were taught. You regurgitate info spouted by peoples with agendas that are cou ter to the ones you pretend to have. Now we are debating
Couple of thoughts. One, you way overbuilt and are still overbuilding in a part of the country that is a desert. It should come as no surprise to any rational person that there could be periods of serious and sustained drought. The other thought is that given it is a desert and there is a drought, you should immediately close all golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, ban lawns, and stop raising cattle. Those are luxuries you can no longer afford.
A large swath of the US is pretty much finished. How the price of houses in these places are still so high is beyond me. And stop with the 'drought' thing trying to basically deny that climate change isn't making things MUCH worse. That's the kind of nonsense my 72 year old delusional father spews while he watches that sociopath Tucker Carlson 🤡 Obviously the twits still allowing the watering of golf courses in Arizona, Almonds in California, and giant water fountains in Las Vegas need to be held accountable.
We've known this would happen for a very long time. Las Vegas is built over a most important aquifer, which is not being depleted. We can't overbuild and we ignored that and kept building.
Farming is the problem not cities. We need to stop wasting water on useless crops like almond trees that take 250 gallons of water to make one liter of almond milk.
While I agree with you that inefficient crops are a huge drain on water reserves, I disagree that cities aren't a problem. Cities concentrate a population into a smaller area and increase the demand for water yet produce nothing in return. At least almonds produce food and oxygen not to mention carbon sequestration and shade. What do cities produce? Heat, and higher demand for resources.
Best dressed Anchors and reporter that I've seen across all news stations. Very professional. 👏 . Yes everyone in the USA should be worried about lakes Powell and Mead going dry. It will effect food and Wall Street.
@@sentientflower7891 More like $50 billion with a double redundancy for safety with a by product of electricity that could be sold at market value as a revenue generator.
@@davidgrover5996 Nope, you are quite wrong. The system that you would need to build to replace the entire Colorado river and California's water supply and Utah's water supply would cost no less than $1 trillion dollars and it would take approximately 200 years to build, you people just don't know what sort of catastrophe you have brought upon yourself.
@@amberpasta9379 The traffic has gotten bad, theres construction on every street leading back to my house. Girl, I feel you. Cant wait to get out of Vegas.
Its gonna get to a point where there will be water shutoffs everyday and it will only come on a certain amount of hours each day its scary to think about we all take water for granted i know i did but i look at it different now
Lake Mead and Powell were built to serve the water needs of 15 million water. Today, over 40 million people draw water from those lakes. It's a desert, there's always a drought of some sort. The river and the storage capacity of those lakes cannot supply 40+ million people.
Where water is less there are places that use too much for lawns cause worry going brown so al need change to turf or desert plants that dont need do much water to conserve or save water anyway possible. some or many come to america so then some or many become water wasters anytime and so the supply of water is drained if not enough rain or snow anytime. start charging places or homes who waste water and then they will limit water to conserve any they get anytime. i have seen news where grass has gone brown cause not waterd for any reason.
When you populate one of the hottest and driest regions on the planet, you will encounter water supply problems. There needs to be a more long-term solution because this drought will continue. If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend reading A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker and Frederick H. Landau (The University of Arizona Press, 2018). In addition, I suggest the following article: "Western ‘Megadrought’ Is the Worst in 1,200 Years" by Chelsea Harvey (Scientific American, 15 February 2022).
@John. The water compact we've all been relying on for decades was based on a 16maf flow derived from hydrological studies from 1905-1915 which was a particularly wet time frame(included El Nino years). Over the years we learned the actual average flow is 13maf annual but the compact was never renegotiated based on the proper flow data and currently 80% of of the use is agriculture much of which is exported out of the country. Based on your comment I think you have some learning to do of your own.
I lived in Solana Beach, Ca....1984 - 1995... Would zoom from the beach to Vegas 15 to 20 times a year.... the expansion of civilization in the desert is ridiculous ! Thank God we wete able to speed boat around Lake Mead unfettered , all the marinas were open , miles of adventure ....Went houseboating 4 times at Lake Powell...Massively impressive, we were lost one time, for a day and a half....Thank God we grew up when we did !!!!!!! Sorry.....NOT sorry....
same here my friend, knew Mead like the palm of my hand. Remember the Hoover Dam tours for three bucks and you could go everywhere and outside in the bottom? House boating in Powell was magical. New generations will probably never be able to enjoy that.
You should have shown how much a casino uses in a single day.....me and my plants will continue to get watered because it's the large as companies using an ass ton of water.....freakin' humans
The casinos don't get their water from lake Mead they truck it in and rycle it that's why they don't use electricity from our state and why we smell methane behind the mega resorts because they have steam turbines when they recycle the water.
What they failed to mention is once Lake Mead reaches the level of 900 feet that agreement they all made kicks in and only California will have access and the other States will be shut off. Level as of a few days ago was getting close to the cut off.
Wow I didn’t know that… that’s so screwed up and I live in Las Vegas I’m pretty sure the people who live like 30 minutes from the lake need the water more considering 90% of our water comes from there. Also Californians always over use the water
We’ve known this was a problem all my life.. when I was little girl I remember hearing this.. but they never did anything about it. I mean it’s pretty self evident when you go out there and literally see water lines
Unfortunately there is nothing anyone can do ,overpopulation will end the water eventually 😕 😪 i dont think i could ever live in a desert, but some love it ❤ 😍 I like mountains trees and never-ending views 😀 some day the mountains might be all thats left to survive in.and um shure eventually they will strip that land to build on too.
I got two buckets from lowes. We catch the bath tub water while waiting to warm up. Then we shower like were in our trailer, wet ourselfs turn off water, soap ourselfs, turn on and rinse. No more long running showers. Been doing it for couple of years now. Saves on water bill also.
I lived in a farm house for a year with no indoor running water. You can get by with 150 to 200 gallons per person for both bathing and washing dishes just as you said. Each day the p gallons in a bucket with some pine- sol went to the outhouse with me and kept it smelling nice. The driveway was a half mile long and it was totally peaceful. Heaven on earth. Now I live on an average and use 1000 gallons a month.
Yes the snow pack in the Colorado river drainage, on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, only got "Normal" snow fall. And it used to get above average. Now lets look at the Green River, that comes out of Wyoming and begins near the town of Pinedale. Which also had some what of a dry winter. This is what people need to know. Where does the water come from. Not just the Colorado river and Green River. But at least four other "Desert" rivers, which pretty much only flow in the spring time, during snow melt in the mountains. Its time to stop trying to grow crops in the desert, and maybe discourage people from moving to the Deserts. Although, it might be almost too late.
Stop growing water intense crops in the desert and grow crops that are more acclimated to arid climates. Stop all the unsustainable low rise suburban sprawl. Time to establish more desert conservation areas that would protect the finite resources of the desert from wasteful over consumption.
So we’ve got population growth, crops, golf courses. Also I’ve never understood how in the hell in apartments and multi house plex’s that the tenants don’t pay for their own water use? Meaning, they could all take five hour showers and wouldn’t hear a damn thing about it. That one just blows my mind. That’s how I know the US is going to all come crashing down one day. And deserves it
I’ve lived in apartments in LV and always had to pay my own water bill. But I did live in a townhouse where it was built into the HOA dues. Went up every year.
Sick of hearing this being blamed on the "climate change boogie man". Droughts have come and gone for eons and Mead was never meant to support the additional millions of people it serves, nor the millions of additional farm acres and golf courses it irrigates. The rains and snow pack will be back, but the people aren't going to leave, so what happens then when even normal precipitation years can't support the region.
@@HoustonRoad so you have some kind of Devine Clairvoyance that enables you to predict weather patterns into the future? I'd like to hear about that. You would be indispensable to the meteorological community.
Let's be honest. No one gives a shyt. If they did, there would have been actions taken years ago to truly conserve water as well as procure new water sources from areas without leaving those areas high and dry. But instead, thousands of new homes are continuing to be built all across those affected states every year.
It’s no as much a drought that is drying up these lakes. These lakes have never seen the number of people using the water before. These were built in the 50s and no one have ever thought about the number of users going up. Bad planning.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s less water usage in the valley now than 40 years ago. And there’s been planning going on for decades to deal with water shortages. It’s got little to do with bad planning.
@@lasvegasira look at the population 40 years ago and now. Look at how many cities were supplied 40 years ago compared to now. There is no way the water usage is less now than 40 years ago.
I having been reading these threads with interest for a couple days now and can't believe you live in an area that has little to no rainfall, depend on snow pack, no conservation plans, and want to divert water from other sources, in effect making others pay for your inability to live within your means. To double down on your problems, farming in the desert, golf courses, unlimited building, wasteful irrigation practices, and crops that are thirsty, am I correct? There is a reason I do not grow pineapples and avocados on my farm in the Ohio River Valley, common sense.
Stupid short sighted people can't stand being told they are stupid and short sighted. Will continue to sit on their hands waiting for a Moriches that won't come.
In terms of drinking water, we’re really not that screwed. Most of the water pulled from the Colorado river is used for agriculture in California. We are going through water quite a bit but many workers within lake mead have mentioned that that line was really there when we had an overflow years ago (I think the 90s?), and in reality, if we didn’t have that, the line would be quite a bit lower to start. That being said, the more the city grows, the more we’ll be focusing our efforts on water conservation. Interestingly enough, the bigger cities get, despite increased use, the better they actually tend to be at conserving water. That being said, if NV continues to allow insane growth and for construction/businesses to use copious amounts of water for building or even just decor, the more of an issue it’s going to become. Las Vegas isn’t really the issue, it’s CA and surrounding states pulling from the Colorado river more and more with their huge populations and agriculture.
Exactly someone get's it out of those 7 state's and Mexico Nevada only uses 2% of the water. California uses the most at 27% also their isn't a water shortage they just aren't releasing enough to fill the entire lake because they don't want a shit ton of water sitting their to evaporate. it's better for the water to sit up north where it's not as hot.
My grandma's family were the original Mormon settlers of the Las Vegas Meadows who gave up building a town there as a bad idea due to the lack of water. The place has outstripped its resources and the well is, literally, running dry.
@@sentientflower7891 They will have it real bad if they don't change to Astro Turf... they're killing AZ for green Soccer Fields...and slowly committing suicide... idiots
The country should invest to divert flood prone States water to drought prone States, floods averted, droughts avoided!! Let's make this idea happen! 🙌
@@sircampbell1249 replacing a river by pumping a river's worth of water from the ocean to the mountains is not an economically viable ideal even if it was technically possible, which it is not.
and, it's not a drought, it's the Desert. Dry, Hot climate that produced plants and animals capable of surviving in those conditions. Humans on the other hand need to be in a cabana next to the ocean with meals brought to them by the waves. Humans are Not Desert creatures.
And all the water that used to flow into Mexico before the US claimed it for itself only The draught south of the border is there allready for decades due to the stupidity of building cities and golf courses in the desert
I live in the Phoenix area and the amount of new construction of homes and businesses is staggering. It is completely irresponsible. Real grass lawns for ANY home or business in ANY desert environment should be BANNED. Don't even talk about golf courses. And all of the canals are UNCOVERED, which facilitates an immediate loss of 10% due to evaporation. Cover the damn things with solar panels!!! Yet it's always business as usual due to 2 things: GREED AND CORRUPTION! Oh and add INCOMPETENCE to the mix.
Too many people putting pressure on the environment. Some areas we inhabit are maxed out. Can the government motivate some in the population, give them an incentive, to move and relocate ?
with what? jobs back east? safe neighborhoods? sturdy infrastructure and building stock? available affordable housing? where's the incentive to move? from what to what?
I live in British Columbia where, believe me, we usually have an abundance of water. However, even here we have large hydroponic greenhouse grow operations which recycle and use a lot less water. A lot of orchards use drip irrigation systems that also use dramatically less water. Look at Israel for example of how to do it. I detect a certain entitled arrogance and too much political money and for sure a way too many lawyers involved in your SE US water problems. But mother nature bats last, and bits of lawyer paper about 'rights' won't mean dick when there ain't any water left to fight over.
Thats what it will take too. Its not just water that people are in denial about. Prepare now because people are not going to face the issues of which there are many.
Flood death valley (250') below sea level with salt water. Allow to evaporate into the rockies where it will condense into snow n rain.. Running off as fresh water into the Colorado River. Death valley is 3000 Sq miles in area. It use to be an inland salt sea.
For those folks that need more detail: The water we use indoors are not the problem, since most of those waters are recycled and goes back to the lake. The water we use outside, such as grasses, are the ones that we truly use up and desert states really need to ban the golf course and ban the landscape that uses grass / tree.
About a year and half ago I went up to lake mead for the first time and walk on to this dock fisherman were using, last week that same dock was surrounded by dry ground and about 2-300 yards away from the water edge . Scary
I live on the east coast but really feel for all of our neighbors out west. Hope mother nature cooperates and provides badly needed rain….and lots of it.
of course it's due to overpopulation . in 1975 say , lake powell was still nearly at full pool . the only thing that has changed is the population . the number of people in southern california and arizona has more than doubled since then . so even though our household appliances like clothes washers and dishwashers are more efficient with water , lake powell and lake mead are drying up . its all because there are far more people using the water and more farms growing more food for the extra people that are also using more water than back then
Desalination makes sense in California. Use the desalinated water there instead of using Colorado river allocation for agriculture in California. Build solar farms in Nevada to supplement the immense power consumption of desal plants. Help each other, confusing I know.....
They have six plants that I know of and it's still not enough to hinder their usage or lawn and golf course care. The recent restrictions didn't affect California.
There are 4 oz of Salt in every Gallon of Sea Water, humans use about 100 gallons of Water a Day. So that would be about 25 Lbs of Salt for every person per day. Lets assume an Area with 8 million Folks, Like the Bay Area. That would be 200 Million Lbs of Salt per day being dumped into the Ocean, Like the San Diego Carlsbad plant does. Salt Brine is much heavier than Sea Water it sinks to the bottom and Creates Salt Lakes that kill the Ocean Floor Sea Life. Additionally it is Very Energy Intensive and Will double the cost of the Water Produced Easily. The Plant in San Diego is also only producing about 100 million gallons a day, that only covers 1 Million people.
Every Spring the Missouri River floods, and lots of people have flooded basements. Some homes become uninhabitable. Let's build a pipeline to take that excess and supply it to the Colorado River. This would even out the water supply and everyone would benefit.
A damn shame ignored for 30 years! The leaders have failed Nevada and the tri-state area.
Its intentional. Create long term problems so you can have and continue long term solutions which equals lots of money and kick backs over many decades. No extra money for the politician if the problem actually is fixed. .
@@nicholaslash8760 Climate change is the long term problem and the solution is to stop polluting the atmosphere. Since you are unwilling to do that you will lose your civilization. Enjoy!
Well flower, sounds like you are a sky is falling type of person. Good luck waiting on the worst to happen while the best is happening and you couldnt tell the difference between the ghost stories and reality of the world actually in front of you. Good news is you can change your perspective
Fixing the problem isnt profitable for politicians who can kick the problem down the road and continue to get kickbacks from various sources due to the problem. Solve the problem, no extra goodies for the goody bag on that topic. It's like doctors and medicine, no cures why? Because you dont have big dollars if people arent sick. So make them always think they are sick and powerless.
Having lawns makes the valley cooler. Having asphalt and decorative rocks raises temps by more than 60 degrees. That can truly impact a neighborhood
*ground temp
We knew about this problem more than 5 years ago. I’d like to know who were the geniuses that keep giving building permits to builders to still continue to build residential and commercial properties in Nevada, southern Utah and Arizona? I’m sure the paid offs were well worth it to the local politicians.
Agreed!
It's been a known issue for decades, not 5 years. We've long known that we live in a desert and that water is a critical resource. When I moved in 20 years ago, the house we bought didn't even have the option of a desert landscape in the front yard- we HAD to get grass. Clearly, the people in charge never thought this was a real problem.
@@chestyvulva Not exactly
Lol. Developers own the state houses in too many cases. Development of real estate generates a lot of income and a lot of revenue. The most logical thing to do is limit real estate Development, but then it's nit a free market any more. The sad truth is, if water runs out, property will be worth nothing. They complain about the expense and energy to desalination ocean water, but they could use green energy. If they have to pay more for water, maybe they'll understand its value
State, County and County leaders were warned about this even as far back as the mid 80's. the Las Vegas valley was never meant to support such a large population. and were also warned that Las Vegas was going to end up as one of the first great American ghost cities and yet short sighted politicians call for more and denser development in the Las Vegas Valley. it's insane!
We have water problems, but the Gov't still issues Building Permits.
Typical Gov't Insanity.
You can't stop people from moving here. Where would they live without housing being built?
It isn't the bulding permits. It's agriculture who uses the most. (80%).
@@llibressalThat and all of the golf courses. Not all of them use recycled water.
@@guyboucher3321 No, the 80% is agriculture alone and much of that is exported to Saudi Arabia.
There is not a golf course in Southern Nevada that is watering with anything but gray water. NOT Colorado River Water. A POSSIBLE exception are the riverside courses in Laughlin area
I love how they need to show someone using a faucet to demonstrate water. That sure says something frightening about the target audience for local news
Democraps….
Right!? 😅
Yeah, they think we're all retarded.
Don't forget that democrats are very stupid and if someone doesn't show them that water comes out of a faucet, they are too brainless to know otherwise.
I love scrubbing myself in all this pool
Population in the area (and water usage) has more than doubled since Lake Mead was created, but sure blame climate change.
They drained the natural aquifers in Vegas between 1930-1960s. Then they started siphoning water from lake mead at a 90% clip. The population boom is very much part of the problem, but so is the increase in annual temps. Less snowpack refilling lake mead and powell, along with more surface evaporation during the spring/summer months.... Unless they figure out that water desalination is probably the way to avert a major crisis, Vegas and Phoenix are in for some rough times.
Having lived in Colorado my entire life. It sure does feel like it snows and rains here a lot less. Wild fires also seem more prevalent and frequent. I’m not surprised the southwest region is facing a water crisis. I’m sorry the words “climate change” hurts your feelings, but putting your head in the sand won’t make the problem go away.
@@thomyi Not sure why you think my feelings were hurt here. You do realize there can be multiple causes to a specific problem right? And if you focus on one cause while ignoring the other (possibly larger) cause then you aren't really contributing much toward the solution.
@@thomyi
4 or 5 ice ages in history.
You can't stop climate change.
@@MrQuaiven the same goes for you, you also cannot deny climate change has played a role.
When the lake was first created it served a population of around 100,000 and the area was mostly desert. Now the population is approaching 3,000,000 .
Gee, I wonder where the water went...I just can't figure it out.
Nailed it!!
the valley uses less water now than in the 80’s. The water shortage is almost exclusively drought related.
Wrong the weather patterns are virtually the same. I definitely think we should bring in another 50 to 100 million more people though. Sarcasm. Just in case it’s to hard for you to understand
@@lasvegasira its called a desert its dry
Plus the fact that tourism to the city has increased dramatically. I like the stupid comments on this forum about a drought being the cause, lol. Only a dumbacrap would believe this lie, they believe all the garbage the lying politicians spoon feed them. They are truly a pathetic bunch!
It is ridiculous that they keep issuing building permits for areas that are served.
We have the best politicians money can buy.
Yep, when I went to High School in Las Vegas, it was a city of not quite 300,000, I LOVED living there and it has been very distressing to see my home town / State being completely overrun. the Las Vegas Valley was never meant to support as large of a population as there is there now, (same goes for the Phoenix Metro Area) and yet, I hear short sighted politicians calling for more and denser development. it's insane. And worse yet, the "alarm" was sounding even back in the mid 80's, early 90's. the whole situation makes me SICK!
@@paulbrungardt9823 Indeed. "Money makes the world go round, the world go round."
David, you have hit the nail squarely. Development plans are never complete, not from the word go. Build a water network, build an electrical grid, build roads, harbors, towns etc and do this in 1950s - 1980s. Sound familiar to you all in the western USA, sorry I'm describing South Africa, it's the same in many western countries. Our problem begins when a City/State or even country starts to exceed natures capacity to replenish fresh water river systems, they start to exceed the road network capacity, the electrical supply capacity, even the waste disposal capacity. But why, eg. Cape Town grew from 600k in 1950 to 1.6M in 1980 and 3.6M in 2010 and now close to 4.8M, and it has a cyclic climate linked to El Nino, so long dry years followed 3-5 Wet. But the capacity to do this "Store when Wet, Use When dry" was exceeded in the mid 2000s SO? it's called diminishing reserves. Wait LA , and others, water RATIONING will soon be your new norm.
NO NEW infrastructure like dams, water transfer schemes etc means NO MORE urban expansion. It's the same for ALL services, roads, sewage, health care and schools etc. If only the persons tasked with permit approval began looking into development from a resource availability and sustainability perspective they may see what is wrong.
hell yeah, we need to move in, screw the water
I dont think its the drought, I think it's mainly due to over development and over population in a desert region that demand to much water. The population in those region in the 1970, 1980, 1990 was relatively small and didnt demand as much water compared to the population from 2010 to 2022.
Too much water is wasted into Mexico. America-Mexico has an agreement that America will release so much water into Mexico even if that is at the expense of the American people.
Wrong
The valley uses less water now than in the 80’s.
@@Starfish2145 How is he wrong? Everybody has a nice green lawn, the smart ones do not. There are just too many people demanding water.
@@lasvegasira It sure does as people become aware, the issue is how many people are there now?
They need to stop growing water intensive crops in the desert
They don’t still raise cattle anywhere out there do they?
Right. Things like large cities.
@@edwardhanson3664 I a dubious of the claims of extreme drought. Tree ring studies show that this is a common occurrence over thousands of years. Compared to the amount of rain falling in the desert in the 80's you could call it a drought. Compare it with much dryer periods in history, and it is just part of the desert cycle. As far as the headwaters we have 130 to 160% of the snow pack so there is no drought on the divide. What has changed is deep water drilling. Farmers are emptying the aquifer, and the river is soaking into the soil to try to make up for it. In the near future if the pumping continues to increase there will be no water flow past Arizona.
What do we eat??????????
Lets see.
1 want to live in the desert.
2 want non polluting, no carbon energy
3 want green grass for the golf course.
4 want fresh produce grown locally.
OKee lets all move there.
Funny part my uncle bought 20 acres from a celery farmer 2 miles from the border 70 years ago.
Grew prickly pear cactus cuz water was expensive.
70 years later the people that live there caught the stupid virus.
It is not climate change it is brain change. I believe it when a geologist tells me it has been changing for 10,000 years. Without our help.
How can I say such a stupido thing? Let look at the parallel line that goes through Chattanooga, TN. Wanna bet it the same as LA?
So I have been in the Mojave in summer and summer in Chattanooga. How much you want to bet the average 24 hour daily temperatures are the same?
Maybe because it the same sun is shining at the same angle?
What kind of effect does the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have on that?
I bet 1 C change at 00 00 lat and long has a bit of effect? ya think? And that is in the Atlantic Ocean
30% land and 70 water. Water is used on IC engines to do what?
I can tell the Pacific is a big chunk of water because I have sailed across it to Australia from the port of LA and back.
Been at the international date and the equator too. Actually it is quite comfortable on the equator in the middle of the Pacific
It never ceases to amaze me. Every single time a news station talks about about the drought they have to turn on the faucet and waste water.
I hope she was running that in a bucket so she could pour it in the toilet
She turned it on for 2 seconds.... cry me a river..... I'm sure you waste alot more than that everyday
@@jaychah2563 two things. You obviously missed my point. Second, if you think I waste that much water everyday, you would be wrong. The city came out and changed my meter because I use so much less water than everybody else that they thought my meter was broken.
New hotels new concert stadiums new events new housing development ... Ya think we should slow down? Hello?
Exactly. Let's keep expanding so we can get to county apocalypse
Slow down? The new venues are more water conscious than a handful of old ones. And with housing in Vegas COMPLETELY UNAFFORDABLE to all but old time owners and illegals willing to turn the lawns into parking lots and live 20 deep in a three bedroom house, the building won't be stopping anytime soon.
Just goes to show. Sex more important than water. Las Vegas built on sex.
@JZ's Best Friend Dubai is doing just fine
@@damien1781 most of their freshwater comes from desalinated sea water.
I love how the evening news gives us a visual of what it looks like when someone's faucet is running. Like we wouldn't have been able to know what on earth they were talking about if they didn't do that.
Wasting water during a report on the drought and Lake Mead drying up. Here’s your sign!
The lake got 2 inch lower because she wasted water to do this cast.
The media and the politicians take down to us like we're four years old. So sick of this.
yea, stupid news, they are all fake faucets
@@rosscollins2910 Our water is recovered and treated and released back into the lake. But of course there are losses and energy required to do that.
Living in South Africa, a dry nation, I am amazed that the dam levels have been allowed to drop this low. In the Cape Town Area any dam below 50% capacity triggers water restrictions. And I really mean water RESTRICTIONS. No hose pipe usage at all, no auto irrigation except commercial agriculture and the real kicker 50 liters (approx 12 gallon US) per person per household per day. You soon learn to conserve.
Ian, some logic, are u Vulcan?
it takes my shower 12 gallons just to get warm :(
@@xxmeanyheadxx 😆
We are being run by IDIOTS most are appointed without any EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE OF THE JOBS THEY HAVE TO DO
And now you see the difference between the US and the SA nations.. The US doesn't GAF and the rest of the world doesn't get a vote. Its really sad.
"We're running out of water!"
*continues to run water throughout the segment for no reason*
Thats nothinng.
Las Vegas Recycles all its water. Now if she was spraying it on the ground.
@@ZeroSignal360 Does your recycling include graywater?
Yea u stupid
@@edwardhanson3664 all water that goes down the drain here. (sinks, toilets, Baths)
It’s time to seriously enact landscaping restrictions in all 7 of these states. Wasting water on lawns etc. in the desert is stupid. Many Colorado cities are limiting new construction landscaping to low or no water use.
Moving to a desert also kinda short sighted.
Lawns should be illegal in the first place. Growing food if you want to water
Lawns are stupid , I ripped mine out & paved the whole yard front & back , now I sleep while my neighbours pick weeds.
@@darthdaddy6983 Should of planted a garden.
@@vashlotus1891
I already have fine access to vegetables .
I don’t really have to give up any square feet or create work for myself.
you'd be wise to sell and get the hell out while no one is paying attention...
Just moved from Riverside ca to Missouri last year
Dave Agree
California is dry and becoming like a sahara GET OUT! Before it's too late
look at what the local politicians are doing in secret and you can pretty much see what everybody else should be doing
They literally have no plan for when it runs out.
That's the U.S. for you, wait until the last minute or until it's too late, as far as infrastructure.
No plans ? Cost too much to do anything about almost everything.
They do...A rain dance.
That’s because there is nothing they can do. IT IS A DESERT. lol.
They believe they can steal the Mississippi too and make everyone else pay for it.
when everyone wants to stream netflix from a single connection at once, lake mead
peter, u are too nice
Build desalination plants and start pumping in the water from the pacific ocean
Costs too much
There are cost limits, when it costs so much no one can afford it then it's not worth doing. When a load of bread cost $50 and you still make 40k a year are you still gonna buy bread? There's already a severe trucker shortage and you wanna start hauling water 8000 gallons at a time to population centers that use hundreds of millions of gallons a day? 🤣🤣🤣 Good plan.
Might be better to route water from the eastern US. They have a surplus and are only getting more floods and rainstorms
@@vegaslimoguy2376 tens of millions of people use the Colorado River and 80% of the water is used for agriculture.
@@vegaslimoguy2376 there's two downfalls to desaltizsion. One being behind the curve. Second to cost. It would make much more sense to pipe in fresh water from historic flood zones like the Mississippi river.
GET RID OF ORNAMENTAL GRASS!!! Rock landscape should be mandatory and if you want to have a big green lawn in the desert then your rates should be 10x higher than normal. This is the DESERT, water is for drinking, not for your dam lawn!!
Lol, las vegas translates into "the meadows" not the desert. Lake mead is a fake lake. Having grass reduces the temperature. The real problem is all the asphalt being black. It retains too much heat. It is 20 degrees cooler just outside of vegas. Took heat measurements last year, grass was more than 40 degrees cooler than concrete and ornamental rocks in the front yard. The asphalt was over 160. If you want vegas to be even hotter then by all means forbid lawns. But know this, rich people have lawns and use up all the water they want. If water becomes a real problem you will see plenty of action done. They had no problems changing the topography of the area by adding the largest man made lake in the usa. They created literal climate change in doing that. But sure, worry about some grass that will make life better of the person that lives there.
@@nicholaslash8760 to each their own then. We have been in drought for over a decade? now and temperatures are just getting hotter. I'd love to see your empirical data showing that some HOA and their overwatwatered lawns is going to somehow have a positive effect on Vegas with their cooling?! I have extensive 1st hand experience dealing with homeowners, HOA's, Businesses etc, about their lawns and if they watered them properly it wouldn't be such an epidemic. But the callous/selfish nature of "I'm paying for it so I'll do what I want" is exactly what is wrong here. If you want to roll in the grass then go to a park.
Weird you are worried about that but not the fact that when you buy water every month your minimum payment is for a certain amount of water allocation. Twll the water company to stop charging for an allotment and then trying to get poor people to not use it through various regulations and advertisements. Rich people then get to pay a little extra and use the water that was allotted but not used due to various practices that aim to prevent poor people from having a better life by having a yard they can be in with their kids. And as far as the parks go, get them to stop allowing dogs to piss and poo all over every park like it's their personal toilet and then maybe we would want to take our kids to the parks. But everytime we go to the park dog poo all over. That is the reason i put grass in backyard. Temperatures being lower, no dog poo or pee, and because i pay for a water allotment that legal i can use. If that's a problem then tell them to reduce the water allotment and price. Otherwise y pou are getting mad at people for using what they pay for.
@@nicholaslash8760 I can't take your friendly "debate" seriously sir. My concern is keeping enough potable water for the people of Vegas to drink, to LIVE. But your concern is the rich people getting their "alloted" water so they can 'play on their lawn with their kids'?! (People don't pay for an 'allotment', they pay for their total monthly use). The only allotment is with the Colorado River Commission which continues to fk Vegas in favor of California. But if a green lawn is what you seek than Las Vegas was a POOR choice and should consider a move to the upper NW USA.
You are missing my point completely and there wasnt a debate. You are crying about poor people. You aim your weapon in the wrong direction and blindly shoot, be ause that is what you were taught. You regurgitate info spouted by peoples with agendas that are cou ter to the ones you pretend to have. Now we are debating
Couple of thoughts. One, you way overbuilt and are still overbuilding in a part of the country that is a desert. It should come as no surprise to any rational person that there could be periods of serious and sustained drought. The other thought is that given it is a desert and there is a drought, you should immediately close all golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, ban lawns, and stop raising cattle. Those are luxuries you can no longer afford.
Stop making sense.
Don't forget almonds either...the amount of water those require is astronomical...
A large swath of the US is pretty much finished. How the price of houses in these places are still so high is beyond me. And stop with the 'drought' thing trying to basically deny that climate change isn't making things MUCH worse. That's the kind of nonsense my 72 year old delusional father spews while he watches that sociopath Tucker Carlson 🤡 Obviously the twits still allowing the watering of golf courses in Arizona, Almonds in California, and giant water fountains in Las Vegas need to be held accountable.
Can't make any money that way.
Tell the people of the world, don't come here, whites, browns, blacks, yellows, this land of thirst, color isn't drinkable
Its our sins and ignorance of listening and hearing God's warnings wake up sinners before it gets worse
There is still too much landscaping uses being wasted.
Stop trying to shame individuals. They aren't the problem.
I think Phoenix has something like 18 golf courses. Imagine how much water that takes to keep green!
@@terryballard4674 the West outskirts of PHX is a massive amount of farmland. 80% of the Colorado goes to agriculture.
Drive around the Encanto park neighborhoods, just north of Downtown, and view all the lush green lawns.
Farmers use water but it’s for people to have food. We waste water for long baths and cultivating lawns
As long as we keep all those lawns green and beautiful out there in the desert, that's all that matters.
We've known this would happen for a very long time. Las Vegas is built over a most important aquifer, which is not being depleted. We can't overbuild and we ignored that and kept building.
An aquifer cannot replace a river.
@@sentientflower7891 water table aquifers are how a lot of how the country gets hydrated
@@SinCityDarkKnight aquifers aren't rivers. They are subject to depletion even on the wet side of the continent.
Farming is the problem not cities. We need to stop wasting water on useless crops like almond trees that take 250 gallons of water to make one liter of almond milk.
While I agree with you that inefficient crops are a huge drain on water reserves, I disagree that cities aren't a problem. Cities concentrate a population into a smaller area and increase the demand for water yet produce nothing in return. At least almonds produce food and oxygen not to mention carbon sequestration and shade. What do cities produce? Heat, and higher demand for resources.
Best dressed Anchors and reporter that I've seen across all news stations. Very professional. 👏 . Yes everyone in the USA should be worried about lakes Powell and Mead going dry. It will effect food and Wall Street.
If only some technology had been produced in the 1950s that could desalinate seawater and pump it from the Gulf of California.
Phoenix is planning exactly that.
Planning to spend $1 trillion? That is the bill for the project you are imagining.
@@jamestucker8088 Phoenix is delusional and what you have got is a mirage.
@@sentientflower7891 More like $50 billion with a double redundancy for safety with a by product of electricity that could be sold at market value as a revenue generator.
@@davidgrover5996 Nope, you are quite wrong. The system that you would need to build to replace the entire Colorado river and California's water supply and Utah's water supply would cost no less than $1 trillion dollars and it would take approximately 200 years to build, you people just don't know what sort of catastrophe you have brought upon yourself.
Honestly, this lake was built with a shelf life
And they keep building more homes all the way up to Kyle Canyon Road.
People want to live in Las Vegas.
@@moneymanfernando1594 I don’t want more people moving here I’m tried of the Californians moving in
@@amberpasta9379 I understand but it is what it is. I don`t think you can stop people from moving.
if u give me a glass of water, I won't move in
@@amberpasta9379 The traffic has gotten bad, theres construction on every street leading back to my house. Girl, I feel you. Cant wait to get out of Vegas.
The planet is 70% water...
Drought all by design
Its gonna get to a point where there will be water shutoffs everyday and it will only come on a certain amount of hours each day its scary to think about we all take water for granted i know i did but i look at it different now
Californians moving here the final nail in the coffin. They still building new bigger casinos too. Crazy.
You being there is part of the problem too. Don't blame others when you are part of the problem.
Gambling is my name
Lake Mead and Powell were built to serve the water needs of 15 million water. Today, over 40 million people draw water from those lakes. It's a desert, there's always a drought of some sort. The river and the storage capacity of those lakes cannot supply 40+ million people.
We should start by getting rid of golf courses.
Educate yourself. You wont look so stupid.
@@tahcogunworks Pull the putter out of your mouth!
Should have shut those down 40 years ago.
cover them with astro-turf
I don’t understand why they don’t dredge some of these lakes and reservoirs out to make room for more water. Only makes sense
Call it what it is, greed. To many homes being built, to many pools to many casinos and to many people. Your stewed.
True, but people want to live in the desert.
Where water is less there are places that use too much for lawns cause worry going brown so al need change to turf or desert plants that dont need do much water to conserve or save water anyway possible. some or many come to america so then some or many become water wasters anytime and so the supply of water is drained if not enough rain or snow anytime. start charging places or homes who waste water and then they will limit water to conserve any they get anytime. i have seen news where grass has gone brown cause not waterd for any reason.
Too many what? Ban these vacationers
If this administration were given the Sahara Desert, in 1 year, there would be a shortage of sand.
When you populate one of the hottest and driest regions on the planet, you will encounter water supply problems. There needs to be a more long-term solution because this drought will continue. If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend reading A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker and Frederick H. Landau (The University of Arizona Press, 2018). In addition, I suggest the following article: "Western ‘Megadrought’ Is the Worst in 1,200 Years" by Chelsea Harvey (Scientific American, 15 February 2022).
We don't taken kindly to reading and learning here in Vegas, that's some California liberal shit. Get it out!
Thank you for the suggestions.
Its not drought...its overuse...and its happening, Globally
@@amosjr4 It's both.
@John. The water compact we've all been relying on for decades was based on a 16maf flow derived from hydrological studies from 1905-1915 which was a particularly wet time frame(included El Nino years). Over the years we learned the actual average flow is 13maf annual but the compact was never renegotiated based on the proper flow data and currently 80% of of the use is agriculture much of which is exported out of the country. Based on your comment I think you have some learning to do of your own.
I lived in Solana Beach, Ca....1984 - 1995... Would zoom from the beach to Vegas 15 to 20 times a year.... the expansion of civilization in the desert is ridiculous ! Thank God we wete able to speed boat around Lake Mead unfettered , all the marinas were open , miles of adventure ....Went houseboating 4 times at Lake Powell...Massively impressive, we were lost one time, for a day and a half....Thank God we grew up when we did !!!!!!! Sorry.....NOT sorry....
same here my friend, knew Mead like the palm of my hand. Remember the Hoover Dam tours for three bucks and you could go everywhere and outside in the bottom? House boating in Powell was magical. New generations will probably never be able to enjoy that.
Lived in Utah near Powell in the 80's.
Never been back. I will keep my memories of that kick ass place.
You should have shown how much a casino uses in a single day.....me and my plants will continue to get watered because it's the large as companies using an ass ton of water.....freakin' humans
Include golf courses(not all use recycled water), green lawns, agriculture, personal swimming pools
Where do you think the waste water goes? 🤔
I will do my part by not washing by bikes. Just use compressed air.
@@AresROC Ah, okay. Does your compressor run on feelings of sacrifice or electricity from hydroelectric?
The casinos don't get their water from lake Mead they truck it in and rycle it that's why they don't use electricity from our state and why we smell methane behind the mega resorts because they have steam turbines when they recycle the water.
What they failed to mention is once Lake Mead reaches the level of 900 feet that agreement they all made kicks in and only California will have access and the other States will be shut off.
Level as of a few days ago was getting close to the cut off.
Wow I didn’t know that… that’s so screwed up and I live in Las Vegas I’m pretty sure the people who live like 30 minutes from the lake need the water more considering 90% of our water comes from there. Also Californians always over use the water
Going California , they say they wear flowers in their hair, flowers need water
We’ve known this was a problem all my life.. when I was little girl I remember hearing this.. but they never did anything about it. I mean it’s pretty self evident when you go out there and literally see water lines
Amber, u are right. People didn't listen
Unfortunately there is nothing anyone can do ,overpopulation will end the water eventually 😕 😪 i dont think i could ever live in a desert, but some love it ❤ 😍 I like mountains trees and never-ending views 😀 some day the mountains might be all thats left to survive in.and um shure eventually they will strip that land to build on too.
please push water conservation, make everyone aware, little time left
I got two buckets from lowes. We catch the bath tub water while waiting to warm up. Then we shower like were in our trailer, wet ourselfs turn off water, soap ourselfs, turn on and rinse. No more long running showers. Been doing it for couple of years now. Saves on water bill also.
I lived in a farm house for a year with no indoor running water. You can get by with 150 to 200 gallons per person for both bathing and washing dishes just as you said. Each day the p gallons in a bucket with some pine- sol went to the outhouse with me and kept it smelling nice. The driveway was a half mile long and it was totally peaceful. Heaven on earth. Now I live on an average and use 1000 gallons a month.
Is it possible to build a pipeline from from the ocean to lake mead? Desalinate the ocean water coming in. Idk I mean there has to be way.
Should have started that 10 years ago if not longer.
Like all technology it'll be rough starting out but eventually will Master it. Too bad we're sending all our money to Ukraine huh.
To many regulations in Cali, they won't allow it.
Then what would be the point of operation a hydro electrical Dam?
It cost to much
Why do they still call it Lake Mead when it's going back to being The Colorado River!
Yes the snow pack in the Colorado river drainage, on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, only got "Normal" snow fall. And it used to get above average. Now lets look at the Green River, that comes out of Wyoming and begins near the town of Pinedale. Which also had some what of a dry winter. This is what people need to know. Where does the water come from. Not just the Colorado river and Green River. But at least four other "Desert" rivers, which pretty much only flow in the spring time, during snow melt in the mountains. Its time to stop trying to grow crops in the desert, and maybe discourage people from moving to the Deserts. Although, it might be almost too late.
Stop growing water intense crops in the desert and grow crops that are more acclimated to arid climates. Stop all the unsustainable low rise suburban sprawl. Time to establish more desert conservation areas that would protect the finite resources of the desert from wasteful over consumption.
James Heart, yeah
Thanks for the demonstration of your kitchen faucet. Fascinating
Shut off the water to Kalifornia!
this is what happens when you try to turn the desert into agricultural land. and build tons of homes
Stop building in Southern Nevada
@Eduardo Spideyfan Thats funny
Not just in southern Nevada. Tons of building going on in southern Utah
Can't. Too many illegal aliens without a place to live.
That's not happening
That is never going to happen.
So we’ve got population growth, crops, golf courses. Also I’ve never understood how in the hell in apartments and multi house plex’s that the tenants don’t pay for their own water use? Meaning, they could all take five hour showers and wouldn’t hear a damn thing about it. That one just blows my mind. That’s how I know the US is going to all come crashing down one day. And deserves it
Its built in to their rents.
we are all gonna crash someday, heads up. not today
I’ve lived in apartments in LV and always had to pay my own water bill. But I did live in a townhouse where it was built into the HOA dues. Went up every year.
We were never meant to have millions of people living where theirs no natural water.
'there is' not 'theirs'. And there IS natural water in the Las Vegas valley.
I water my huge lush lawn around 12:00 midnight. I have the best lawn in my neighborhood. The neighbors are jealous.
Tricia Kean got some big ol' sweater puppies.
Unfortunately everything is big on Tricia! 10 lbs of crap in a 5 lb bag!
So we left Las Vegas and moved to the PNW and we visit every year it’s crazy how they keep building and lots of people moving there. Future ghost city
Sick of hearing this being blamed on the "climate change boogie man". Droughts have come and gone for eons and Mead was never meant to support the additional millions of people it serves, nor the millions of additional farm acres and golf courses it irrigates. The rains and snow pack will be back, but the people aren't going to leave, so what happens then when even normal precipitation years can't support the region.
That’s where your wrong, rain and snow will not return at normal levels. A solution is needed, complaining about the people won’t get us any closer.
Excellent way to solve problems. Stick your head into the extremely dry soil
Well said....
@@HoustonRoad so you have some kind of Devine Clairvoyance that enables you to predict weather patterns into the future? I'd like to hear about that. You would be indispensable to the meteorological community.
@@garymccarver5006just read a few published papers on climate change. Drop the smartass attitude, makes you look stupid.
It can never replenish. COMPLETELY!!!
What about the animals! 💯 Humans are the problem! I seen Rango! 🦎
yep them cows, cant have a hamburger with a hot dog
Well I guess building a gigantic civilization in the middle of a desert wasn't such a great idea after all...
It’s because California and Arizona combined use 30-35x the ammount of water that Nevada uses from the lower colorado river system.
Nevada agriculture 665 $million
CA. Agriculture. 50 $billion
But they have bigger populations. Dancing water in Las Vegas sends the wrong message.
looks to me like u guys soak in too much water
Let's be honest. No one gives a shyt. If they did, there would have been actions taken years ago to truly conserve water as well as procure new water sources from areas without leaving those areas high and dry. But instead, thousands of new homes are continuing to be built all across those affected states every year.
I just CAN'T understand WHY they keep allowing new building to happen in a DESERT! Why?
Water is going to be the same price as gasoline.
It’s no as much a drought that is drying up these lakes. These lakes have never seen the number of people using the water before. These were built in the 50s and no one have ever thought about the number of users going up. Bad planning.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s less water usage in the valley now than 40 years ago. And there’s been planning going on for decades to deal with water shortages. It’s got little to do with bad planning.
@@lasvegasira look at the population 40 years ago and now. Look at how many cities were supplied 40 years ago compared to now. There is no way the water usage is less now than 40 years ago.
@@lasvegasira growth equals less water use? 🤭
Thats the state working for ya
Mississippi River floods a ton. I bet that would refill that lake in a few years. Just saying.
Thank God that reporter did the demonstration with her kitchen sink - I would have never understood this story otherwise……😐
Yes, she's a national treasure!
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I having been reading these threads with interest for a couple days now and can't believe you live in an area that has little to no rainfall, depend on snow pack, no conservation plans, and want to divert water from other sources, in effect making others pay for your inability to live within your means. To double down on your problems, farming in the desert, golf courses, unlimited building, wasteful irrigation practices, and crops that are thirsty, am I correct? There is a reason I do not grow pineapples and avocados on my farm in the Ohio River Valley, common sense.
Seems the US is quite short of it nowdays.
Stupid short sighted people can't stand being told they are stupid and short sighted. Will continue to sit on their hands waiting for a Moriches that won't come.
The climate is fine its always working. It's politicians that are screwed up.
I learned about this in Junior High in the 1980's.
In terms of drinking water, we’re really not that screwed. Most of the water pulled from the Colorado river is used for agriculture in California. We are going through water quite a bit but many workers within lake mead have mentioned that that line was really there when we had an overflow years ago (I think the 90s?), and in reality, if we didn’t have that, the line would be quite a bit lower to start. That being said, the more the city grows, the more we’ll be focusing our efforts on water conservation. Interestingly enough, the bigger cities get, despite increased use, the better they actually tend to be at conserving water.
That being said, if NV continues to allow insane growth and for construction/businesses to use copious amounts of water for building or even just decor, the more of an issue it’s going to become. Las Vegas isn’t really the issue, it’s CA and surrounding states pulling from the Colorado river more and more with their huge populations and agriculture.
Exactly someone get's it out of those 7 state's and Mexico Nevada only uses 2% of the water. California uses the most at 27% also their isn't a water shortage they just aren't releasing enough to fill the entire lake because they don't want a shit ton of water sitting their to evaporate. it's better for the water to sit up north where it's not as hot.
@@ravemaster7405 Nevada gets 4%, but you're right. It's a drop in the bucket.
My grandma's family were the original Mormon settlers of the Las Vegas Meadows who gave up building a town there as a bad idea due to the lack of water. The place has outstripped its resources and the well is, literally, running dry.
They don't have it that bad in UTAH... there's been a building boom over the past 5 years...you should see all the golf courses... FORE!
Yes, they do.
@@sentientflower7891 They will have it real bad if they don't change to Astro Turf... they're killing AZ for green Soccer Fields...and slowly committing suicide... idiots
The country should invest to divert flood prone States water to drought prone States, floods averted, droughts avoided!! Let's make this idea happen! 🙌
dude, pass that joint, don't bogart, it's rude
The ocean is full of water so they need find a way to get to all states anytime and filter it for use anytime.
Have you been to the ocean?
@@sentientflower7891 it's called a Desalination plant....
@@sircampbell1249 there is a reason why rivers flow to the ocean rather than oceans flow to reservoirs.
@@sentientflower7891 ever hear of Pumps ?
@@sircampbell1249 replacing a river by pumping a river's worth of water from the ocean to the mountains is not an economically viable ideal even if it was technically possible, which it is not.
Make the desert bloom! Build a water pipeline!
When you mess with creation (which is nature), this is what happens. Desert 🏜️ is desert.
and, it's not a drought, it's the Desert. Dry, Hot climate that produced plants and animals capable of surviving in those conditions. Humans on the other hand need to be in a cabana next to the ocean with meals brought to them by the waves. Humans are Not Desert creatures.
And all the water that used to flow into Mexico before the US claimed it for itself only
The draught south of the border is there allready for decades due to the stupidity of building cities and golf courses in the desert
I live in the Phoenix area and the amount of new construction of homes and businesses is staggering. It is completely irresponsible. Real grass lawns for ANY home or business in ANY desert environment should be BANNED. Don't even talk about golf courses. And all of the canals are UNCOVERED, which facilitates an immediate loss of 10% due to evaporation. Cover the damn things with solar panels!!! Yet it's always business as usual due to 2 things: GREED AND CORRUPTION! Oh and add INCOMPETENCE to the mix.
sounds like a trump idea
The ground water can be recycled. It's your electricity that will be lost if the Hoover Dam can't generate power do to low water levels.
@@bkzeppelin3215 Trump hates green anything.
Stop calling it a drought... it's the new normal!
Too many people putting pressure on the environment.
Some areas we inhabit are maxed out.
Can the government motivate some in the population, give them an incentive, to move and relocate ?
I would think no water would be incentive enough.
How about the gubbamint stops rewarding those overpopulating the planet and penalizing those that do not?
with what? jobs back east? safe neighborhoods? sturdy infrastructure and building stock? available affordable housing? where's the incentive to move? from what to what?
Just what we don't want or need. A bunch of blue state people moving into our red states and bringing their short sighted philosophy with them .
Republican. Run. State. No surprises here!
I live in British Columbia where, believe me, we usually have an abundance of water. However, even here we have large hydroponic greenhouse grow operations which recycle and use a lot less water. A lot of orchards use drip irrigation systems that also use dramatically less water. Look at Israel for example of how to do it. I detect a certain entitled arrogance and too much political money and for sure a way too many lawyers involved in your SE US water problems. But mother nature bats last, and bits of lawyer paper about 'rights' won't mean dick when there ain't any water left to fight over.
Thats what it will take too. Its not just water that people are in denial about. Prepare now because people are not going to face the issues of which there are many.
Time to tap the ocean water.
Make sure that border is open. We need more immigrants drinking that water. LGBFJB!
Flood death valley (250') below sea level with salt water. Allow to evaporate into the rockies where it will condense into snow n rain..
Running off as fresh water into the Colorado River.
Death valley is 3000 Sq miles in area. It use to be an inland salt sea.
For those folks that need more detail: The water we use indoors are not the problem, since most of those waters are recycled and goes back to the lake. The water we use outside, such as grasses, are the ones that we truly use up and desert states really need to ban the golf course and ban the landscape that uses grass / tree.
I'm telling you water rationing is gonna be tough this summer. Woe to them that ignore restrictions here in California.
About a year and half ago I went up to lake mead for the first time and walk on to this dock fisherman were using, last week that same dock was surrounded by dry ground and about 2-300 yards away from the water edge . Scary
I would write them state reps, looks to me like you've be cheated
Time to go back to europe. Just go back and stay.
@@bkzeppelin3215 state rep build straw to suck the last life out the dam .
Sisolak is not the man for the job. Put a Republican in office if you want to solve this problem.
So funny, lake mead is a man made lake. It drying up would not be climate change it would be going back to the way it was prior to the dam.
Perhaps your plugging up a river like it is your own water bank pissed off the water gods and that's why there hasn't been as much rain and snow pack.
I live on the east coast but really feel for all of our neighbors out west. Hope mother nature cooperates and provides badly needed rain….and lots of it.
Problem not mother nature, problem nanny government attracting more to a desert...
of course it's due to overpopulation . in 1975 say , lake powell was still nearly at full pool . the only thing that has changed is the population . the number of people in southern california and arizona has more than doubled since then . so even though our household appliances like clothes washers and dishwashers are more efficient with water , lake powell and lake mead are drying up . its all because there are far more people using the water and more farms growing more food for the extra people that are also using more water than back then
yep and the lack of snowfall, but nobody admits to that
So tired of teleprompter readers acting like they are smarter than everyone else talking down to us like we are all in the third grade.
Desalination makes sense in California. Use the desalinated water there instead of using Colorado river allocation for agriculture in California. Build solar farms in Nevada to supplement the immense power consumption of desal plants. Help each other, confusing I know.....
They have six plants that I know of and it's still not enough to hinder their usage or lawn and golf course care. The recent restrictions didn't affect California.
Too many solar farms will do more damage than help
There are 4 oz of Salt in every Gallon of Sea Water, humans use about 100 gallons of Water a Day. So that would be about 25 Lbs of Salt for every person per day. Lets assume an Area with 8 million Folks, Like the Bay Area. That would be 200 Million Lbs of Salt per day being dumped into the Ocean, Like the San Diego Carlsbad plant does. Salt Brine is much heavier than Sea Water it sinks to the bottom and Creates Salt Lakes that kill the Ocean Floor Sea Life. Additionally it is Very Energy Intensive and Will double the cost of the Water Produced Easily. The Plant in San Diego is also only producing about 100 million gallons a day, that only covers 1 Million people.
You are confused.
@@tahcogunworks what are the negative consequences of solar farm over saturation intended and unintended ?
Every Spring the Missouri River floods, and lots of people have flooded basements. Some homes become uninhabitable. Let's build a pipeline to take that excess and supply it to the Colorado River. This would even out the water supply and everyone would benefit.
They need to build flood gates with a hydro pump and save the flood waters and pump it into lake mead hello from Merced county
"Thank you, Paulina!
Next up: The Las Vegas Planning and Zoning committee approves a preliminary plan for 15,000 new homes."
It's not a drought. Population has exceeded the supply for decades. Look at the upstream gauges. The snowpack release hasn't changed.
your head is stuck in the sand . . . because there IS no water
It has nothing to do with climate. It's the population and demand.
Conserve water? I thought Resorts World is planning a water park?