I live in Phoenix, AZ and our hoa keeps giving us warnings and fines because the grass in our front yard is dead. We are renters so we can't remove it and replace with rocks, and the sprinklers haven't worked properly since we moved in despite letting the homeowner know. But the fact that the hoa is fining us for not using water (still keeping up on weeds and palm tree trimming) on a plant that doesn't naturally grow in the desert during a drought is frustrating. I know it hurts the curb appeal, but there are so many more important things in life than green grass.
We get HOA fines for that too like???? We're in a drought leave me alone! I'm in the same boat, renting or else it would be gone by now. It is SO frustrating, I hear you
New sub here. You are the first person to address the eco-anxiety symptoms that ppl may be dealing with as we learn more about the progression of climate change, global warming and over consumption. The Lake Meade situation is terrifying me. Loss of habitat, extinctions, aging power grids and infrastructure……etc. etc. etc. Not gonna lie, I have many days where I feel hopeless at any chance that we, as a species, can come together and mitigate such a bleak future. I am glad that I found this channel. I am refreshed by your resolve and focus. There has been a small ember of hope building inside of me for a few years now. Hope in the emerging generations of young people who are less susceptible to wholesale manipulation, infinitely better at mobilizing and working together for the common good than previous generations. May not be a popular view, but I don’t care. I am a middle aged female living in Tennessee, and I am prepared to die on this hill. Hopeless, middle aged, southern females can be cantankerous and stubborn, especially when the dew point is consistently stuck in the low 70’s! Keep up the good work, you smart and conscientious young lady!
Thank you so much for making this video! As someone who cares about the environment, water usage was always the hardest for me to wrap my head around why it matters (since water always returns to the earth from the atmosphere, and I worry that a lot of people feel that way and that’s why they don’t care about reducing their water usage (side note: I’d always try to reduce my water even though I didn’t understand why it was important)) This video was really helpful in educating myself, so thank you!!
Right, but water also goes from the earth back to the atmosphere through evaporation. Think of it like this. If you collect water from your roof into a barrel you are reducing its surface area significantly more than if it was just allowed to flow out over your yard. So you are basically intersecting the condensed water from your roof, not allowing it to spread out on the ground and consolidating it into a barrel that would take a long time to evaporate. Take two buckets of water. Dump one out on you driveway at noon, and place one in the shade. Unless it rains you will have no water on the driveway in a few hours, but you will still have most of the water in the bucket. The reservoir acts like a giant bucket and consolidates the water. The only water that evaporates is the water exposed at the surface.
I have lived in Vegas since 2010 and I've been freaking out about this since then. A huge culprit is cotton and almond farmers in California and Arizona's deserts.
it's actually mostly alfalfa! Which goes to cattle. So, it's further proof that going vegan/just cutting out some meat makes a huge difference. But yes, other agriculture as well. Ag goes to 80% of water usage for the entire CO river basin
When I lived in Arizona in 2019 / 2020 what I noticed is most of the water from our monsoon season is not captured. Huge amount of the water just runs off into the desert plains. The other more urgent problem where I lived, Arizona City was the entire area the land has severely dropped. Over 12 feet from the water being pumped from the giant aquifer deep underground that encompasses several states. The big name soda companies pump water from the aquifer for soda production as well. When the aquifer is drain faster than it can recover causes the land to collapse. Soon there will be a drought that will cause politicians to truly work for the people or lose their cities.
Imagine how much water there would be if all the golf courses and waterparks didn't use so much :))))) (assuming they also get it from there) Also to add: It's the desert, do Nevada and Arizona not use much solar panels? Or heat panels? Seems perfect for them
E X A C T L Y !!!!!! They do, we all get water from Lake Mead out here. Solar pannels are popular and getting more popular but not the sole source of energy
The Beckisphere ( A really cool RUclips channel) talked about how heat and drought are causing aquatic deaths. The Colorado and lake mead are shrinking and it's hurting the wildlife that lives in them too.
The scary thing is when I saw 1acre foot of water is 325,851 GALLONS, so CA cutting 200,000 acre feet is 65 billion gallons? (Acrefoot to gallons from the Colorado river district website)
Seeing all this water stuff past decade. Makes me grateful I live in Montana next to 3 head waters lakes rivers etc. But I also hope this or the next pres. Administration takes action on getting something going to solve this problem. Because It's very very concerning
Yes we are running out of water. Lawncare - Plant fine fescue lawn seed - requires no watering and only needs a cut twice a year. Grows tall and falls over like a soft rug on the lawn. No weeds, no water and no cutting- that’s GREEN.
My estimation after following the water levels is that the lake is dropping about 12 in every 10 days as, as of now. That figure will probably grow as the summer continues on. The lake has about 88 and 1/2 ft before the turbines get shut down. So I would say definitely buy if not before next summer we will see the Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon shut down. Amazing how this is being downplayed. 25 million people are about to lose their primary source of electricity and fresh water and no alarms are being raised
that's about accurate. Recently it's been 6-10 feet per month which is frightening. I'm going to make an update video soon as it's getting bad. It's SO DOWNPLAYED OPMG
Plants and greenery will always lower the temperature. Look at a map and see how the rich neighborhoods are green as fuck with significantly nicer temps, and yet the hood is brown and tan, and hot as fuck with absolutely no shade over bus stops or side walks.
@@greener336 I have. Sure, temps might raise a little, but first, Vegas is already very hot, and second, there isn't much grass here to begin with. If the entire city was covered in grass, we might see more significant changes, but it's not. Plus, if we replace grass with native plants and not asphalt, they will do the same job sequestering carbon and keeping up cool-ish as grass does
@@greener336 you said it yourself: plants, not necessarily grass. We need plants, yes, I didn't say get rid of plants, I said replace grass with NATIVE plants
Yupp, definitely should have turned off the video at the warning. Too late now! It's so frustrating being born and raised in Vegas, knowing full well we are running out of water yet everywhere I turn there's water literally going down drains. And when I go to the other states that use Lake Mead's water, it's almost painful. The pictures of the water level don't do it justice. Physically going to the dam is heartbreaking. I remember a popular place to cliff jumping into Lake Mead 10 years ago, but now the water is too low to do that. There are so many boat docks that don't even come close to the shore. So stressful and irritating
i know, it's scary, but it's important to know and learn about. I agree! I'd been seeing pictures for years but it wasn't until I went to the dam this summer and had to keep leaning over the edge just to see the water. My heart dropped into my stomach. It is SO frustrating so let's channel that frustration into action!
Maybe you mentioned it and I missed it, the maximum depth of lake Powell is something like 558 feet. Lake mead is 532 feet deep at its deepest point. This is something a lot of folks miss. When they are talking about the lake losing depth, it is sea level. So, for example, if lake Mead goes from 1057 to 1050, it does not mean that the lake is still 1050 feet deep. The 1050 is feet in sea level. Anyway, you may have said that and I may have missed it. I moved away from Utah a few years ago and haven’t really kept up with the water news there, but I was totally floored to hear the big wigs in Southern Utah declare that they have only 3-10 years of water left, and then I looked into all of that further and maybe last week, a Lake Mead official said that if they do nothing, lots of folks in Nevada may not be able to turn on their taps in 2023... what??? They all act so blindsided by this... and on top of everything they are still building single family houses like crazy ????? What’s going on down there ?
I did not know that, none of the sources mentioned that! Lake Powell is veryyyy low. But yes, it's true, each year we get stricter and stricter water restricions. It is so sad. It's been a 24-year-long drought, they knew this was coming they just didn't take action until now it's nearly too late
The Simple Environmentalist I am so sorry that it’s so bad, I don’t even know what I would do in your situation. It’s very good that you are so on top of all of this so that you can make plans ahead of time if necessary. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the Southwest right now. I feel bad for the regular folks down there watching this happen.
This is a global problem. There are states and countries that continue to use fossil water that will dry up within a decade or two. Mexico city is in serious trouble. Farming in the desert is a dead concept. You are all going to have to move north.
It sure is a global issue. We won't have to move if we can fix this (I mean, I plan on moving in two years anyway but that's besides the point). People have lived in the desert for centuries! People can thrive out here, like indigenous people have shown, it's just that colonizers never did it right and we are facing the consequences now
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Noone ever did large scale farming in the desert before they started diverting surface water and draining acquirers. You may feel for the impact on the farmers, but the are by far the biggest source of the problem.
@@philipaubin4679 actually, no. Yes it's a problem but the farmers are here bc of supply and demand. Us overconsuming cotton and meat drove this. Plus, golf courses are a huge water sucker too
@@greener336 no i'm not saying the city of Vegas, Indigenous People's have been here way longer than white settlers. I never said Vegas was here for centuries, I know how old this country is lol
@@greener336 hmmm i'm not so sure about that. Right on the southern edge of vegas, Petroglyph/Sloan Canyon has petroglyphs AKA proof of life in that region of Vegas before settlers arrived
This was SUPER informative👏👏Definitely imperative to be aware of the fallout from this major lack of conservation because there IS hope for the future!!
An acre foot is an acre area one foot deep. There are 640 acres in a square mile and 5280 feet in a mile, hence 5280^2 ÷ 640 or 43560 square feet in an acre. So an acre foot is 43560 cubic feet, 325851 gallons, or 1613 cubic yards.
A water level of 895 ft does not mean there is 895 ft of water left in Lake Mead. It means the water level is at the elevation of 895 ft above sea level.
I haven't lived in my hometown of Vegas in several years now, and the first thing that came to mind watching this video is the shitbag HOA network in that neck of the country. I have yet to come across HOAs out here in the East. I was happy to see other comments about HOAs here.
There are two types of people out there. Those who care and those who don't. You see them In all walks of life. Whether it be inconsiderate drivers, fly dumpers, noisy neighbours, those with unruly children etc etc. And then you have the opposite of these nasty people. So regarding Lake Mead and Powell, there are those who are completely aware of the crisis going on, yet they still abuse water usage. So that's why authorities have to crack a whip on these people by patrolling neighbourhoods and fining these idiots for breaching water usage laws. Personally I believe they should triple the fines, and even prosecute persistent offenders.
I am not sure why it isn’t a viable option to seed the clouds for rain. The conservation needs to be constant and not wait until mandates come down. I am glad to hear of you using your grey water to irrigate your crops. If people just have to have grass, the artificial grass looks quite nice and takes zero water. I wonder if the next step is to have giant desalination plants. We don’t agree on everything but this video offers a lot of value. Cheers.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Even though it’s plastic it is there for years and years. I have a bigger issue with single use eating utensils and plastic straws. I am not a real big fan of seeing so many plastic bottles of drinking water.
Four years ago l was in a brief conversation with a lady at the store, and she looked at me like l was totally insane when l mentioned that only about 3% of the Earths water is drinkable, and we were facing a looming worldwide shortage. Yet here we are!
If you look at climate graphs from our most accurate ice core readings you will see how dynamic this earth is and has been. We should do what we can but certain things are inevitable. We have to be responsible and adapt!
yes, the earth fluctuates, but all climate scientists agree that this current age of warming will not go back down due to human activity. AKA we are influencing the climate beyond return and need to fix outselves
Maybe it would be wise to prohibit all water consuming animals in the entire area served by the Colorado River basin including domestic pets. Catch and retain rain water for all non-potable uses. Build additional power producing plants up and down the west coast to produce power to desalinate more water.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist I will & have been. Subscribed too! I agree. The super wealthy imposes rules they themselves never follow. Very disgusting.
I wonder Nevada new football team. My Las Vegas Raiders will have to change the natural grass to artificial turf? I mean they have only been there for three years.
If Mars and the Moon were reachable. I think if a oil pipeline is doing ok. We can get water from the Midwest floods each year to the west with no problems. Just pumping up hill. Also get some letters out to the billionaires to fund it. Peace
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist running out of fresh water is probably inevitable as population continues to grow. But luckily, as long as we have massive amounts of energy, we can create as much as we need through desalination.
if you have time please read this comment i like you to research #teamseas I really want you to know about this and support somehow by shout out in your video talking about it or donating to it I know you care about the environment so much. thank you for your time.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist the solution to goble warming, and would give us a type one civilization. The rich have stolen zero point energy from us all.
It's the desert people! Migration to this area and the consumption of a scarce resource should have been projected into housing development. Yes the climate is changing, but suggesting that everyone stop eating meat is nearly as absurd as ignoring that you and others like you who moved into the desert southwest are a large part of the problem. Water requirements from 100 years ago vs the population explosion of today are incongruous!
Not to be rude yet you keep saying “..but I have no idea” Why on earth do you think you should make a video outlining the matter when you straight up don’t know.
Your comment that you can't figure out what an acre foot of water is kind of put me off to tell the truth. It takes a few seconds to google. Your prejudice against golf courses is troubling. Is it just golf courses or any sporting activity? When you drive by a soccer field do you think -what a bunch of stupid kids wasting water? Golf courses in that area have actually had to start being more conservative so they water much less area in general and are more frugal with areas they do water. Most use non potable water. But golf did not start on irrigated courses that is a modern preference. There is no actual reason to have grass at all other than preference really. Same for most sports actually baseball for example is already dirt around the bases the grass just looks nice. Your idea to replace grass with artificial turf is poorly thought out. The last thing we need is more plastics in the environment. Do we really need to have everything green in the desert? Personally I find the desert to be beautiful in its own right. Seriously you live in a desert and the thought of having to not waste water is scary for you? Humans actually lived on the earth for 100's of thousands of years without an unlimited supply of clean water for their lawns. A human actually needs about a half gallon per day. Astronauts on the ISS use maybe 1-1/2 and most of that is recycled and reused many times. Even farmers in that area are wasteful of water -maybe the desert is not a good place to raise cows but there are a lot of crops that can be grown with much less water. In my opinion though I would stop growing grass for aesthetics before I stop growing food if it came to that. It is made more obvious by looking at lake Mead but the truth is that all over the USA aquafers are being pumped dry leaving us to use contaminated surface water so the Southwest is no different really. The "water crisis" is a fantasy though. Humans evolved without unlimited fresh water and they will go on if in the future they do not have unlimited amounts again. We also have the technology to purify ocean water and this planet is mostly ocean. The only crisis here is that people got used to huge amounts of clean cheap water and we may have to cut back a bit. That is not really a crisis it is an inconvenience. It is not just water though -same with electricity and oil. If you give people lots of cheap power they will take it for granted and waste a lot of it. If we started paying more more for energy we would be more frugal with it. In any case a future where we can reduce climate changes will require us to rethink how we live and what our houses, buildings, cars, farms, communities, etc. look like.
I did google it. I couldn't find it. hahahahahhahahahah why is it troubling to you? Bc you like golf? No, it's stricly golf. Check out my full video on why it's so bad for the environment. Wow, you wrote a novel,t hanks for the engagement.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist To be totally frank I find it troubling because it calls into question your competence and or the amount of time you are spending actually learning about what you are talking about. Neither of those things are desirable. I have noticed that many people often can't string together more that one sentence before they become exhausted so I can see how that would amaze you. You maybe need to make a little more effort.
@@ChrisStewart2 you can't say how much effort i did or didn't put in. Yikes, you think I'm exhausted? I researched hours for this video. if you don't like it, leave, but don't call me stupid
@@ChrisStewart2 obviously i was able to find he conversion quite simply. You missed what I said then which calls into question your competence. I wanted a comparison, not just a conversion. What I mean is how much is an acre foot in comparison to say a football field or a basketball court, something my audience could easily picture cause saying 1 acre foot is 325851 gallons is hard to picture without a comparision
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist First I did not call you stupid I said you appear to be incompetent. (not the same) Second my competence is not an issue since I am not attempting to educate the public on this issue . It could very well be that I am not competent to address environmental issues. It also was very easy to Google the average football field area (1.32 acres) so... So anyway this is getting tiresome. At least you have some passion on the subject.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist OH FAKE NEWS! Now don't get triggered because TRUMP'S got climate change by the Putssy, put your faith in our God & saviour TRUMP. He will save us. Lol. I was being sarcastic. There's still fools out there that think their corrupt political figure is going to save them. Russia, along with its Latin American Allies are on the brink of attacking Babylon the Great, and no one is paying attention. I feel very worried for anyone living in California, Las Vegas, Florida, and New York. If you can get out of Vegas this year woman THEN DO IT. I promise you won't regret it looking back 2-3 years from now.
I couldn't understand how you people don't realize you live in a desert and it's just going back to a desert no matter what you do you live in a desert you blocked off the river to give you some water and you're drinking it all up it's where it's going but you live in a desert accept it why are you so upset about it
what do yoou mean "going back to a desert" it's been a desert for the last few millions years and we didn't change it into something that's not a desert haha. I know it's a desert. It's also a drought due to climate change. I'm upset about water mismanagement and no one taking the climate crisis seriously. If you're gunna be rude just leave hahahahha
I just saw an article yesterday about California farmers being paid to NOT farm to save water! That can't be done long term.
Especially since CA produces a large portion of the crops for the US.
I'm sorry WHAT how are we going to eat without our farmers??? they should ban golf and ornamental grass instead!
@@kleptomelly THIS!!
I live in Phoenix, AZ and our hoa keeps giving us warnings and fines because the grass in our front yard is dead. We are renters so we can't remove it and replace with rocks, and the sprinklers haven't worked properly since we moved in despite letting the homeowner know. But the fact that the hoa is fining us for not using water (still keeping up on weeds and palm tree trimming) on a plant that doesn't naturally grow in the desert during a drought is frustrating. I know it hurts the curb appeal, but there are so many more important things in life than green grass.
We get HOA fines for that too like???? We're in a drought leave me alone! I'm in the same boat, renting or else it would be gone by now. It is SO frustrating, I hear you
I feel like that should be y'all's landlords problem
@@emilyann2581 it should be. The HOAs out here are brutal ugh
@@emilyann2581 Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas! Where the housing is a crisis.
Dude take care of ur lawn no one wants to see a dirty lawn
Acre-ft is a measure of volume.
An area of water spanning 1 Acre at a depth of 1 foot is 1 Acre-ft in volume.
Yeah, I get what it is, I just couldn't find a good comparison in layman's terms. Thanks!
New sub here. You are the first person to address the eco-anxiety symptoms that ppl may be dealing with as we learn more about the progression of climate change, global warming and over consumption. The Lake Meade situation is terrifying me. Loss of habitat, extinctions, aging power grids and infrastructure……etc. etc. etc.
Not gonna lie, I have many days where I feel hopeless at any chance that we, as a species, can come together and mitigate such a bleak future.
I am glad that I found this channel. I am refreshed by your resolve and focus. There has been a small ember of hope building inside of me for a few years now. Hope in the emerging generations of young people who are less susceptible to wholesale manipulation, infinitely better at mobilizing and working together for the common good than previous generations. May not be a popular view, but I don’t care. I am a middle aged female living in Tennessee, and I am prepared to die on this hill. Hopeless, middle aged, southern females can be cantankerous and stubborn, especially when the dew point is consistently stuck in the low 70’s!
Keep up the good work, you smart and conscientious young lady!
awww thank you for subbing so happy to have you here! I feel you, it's a constant ebb and flow of my emotions regarding climate change
Thank you so much for making this video! As someone who cares about the environment, water usage was always the hardest for me to wrap my head around why it matters (since water always returns to the earth from the atmosphere, and I worry that a lot of people feel that way and that’s why they don’t care about reducing their water usage (side note: I’d always try to reduce my water even though I didn’t understand why it was important)) This video was really helpful in educating myself, so thank you!!
You are probably right that people think water is infinite and while it may be, fresh water is not! So glad this helped :)
Right, but water also goes from the earth back to the atmosphere through evaporation. Think of it like this. If you collect water from your roof into a barrel you are reducing its surface area significantly more than if it was just allowed to flow out over your yard. So you are basically intersecting the condensed water from your roof, not allowing it to spread out on the ground and consolidating it into a barrel that would take a long time to evaporate.
Take two buckets of water. Dump one out on you driveway at noon, and place one in the shade. Unless it rains you will have no water on the driveway in a few hours, but you will still have most of the water in the bucket.
The reservoir acts like a giant bucket and consolidates the water. The only water that evaporates is the water exposed at the surface.
I have lived in Vegas since 2010 and I've been freaking out about this since then. A huge culprit is cotton and almond farmers in California and Arizona's deserts.
it's actually mostly alfalfa! Which goes to cattle. So, it's further proof that going vegan/just cutting out some meat makes a huge difference. But yes, other agriculture as well. Ag goes to 80% of water usage for the entire CO river basin
When I lived in Arizona in 2019 / 2020 what I noticed is most of the water from our monsoon season is not captured.
Huge amount of the water just runs off into the desert plains.
The other more urgent problem where I lived, Arizona City was the entire area the land has severely dropped. Over 12 feet from the water being pumped from the giant aquifer deep underground that encompasses several states.
The big name soda companies pump water from the aquifer for soda production as well.
When the aquifer is drain faster than it can recover causes the land to collapse.
Soon there will be a drought that will cause politicians to truly work for the people or lose their cities.
YES here too! and so far this monsoon season we've had a grand total of 0.01 inches of rain.It's so scary
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist wow
Imagine how much water there would be if all the golf courses and waterparks didn't use so much :))))) (assuming they also get it from there)
Also to add: It's the desert, do Nevada and Arizona not use much solar panels? Or heat panels? Seems perfect for them
E X A C T L Y !!!!!! They do, we all get water from Lake Mead out here. Solar pannels are popular and getting more popular but not the sole source of energy
The Beckisphere ( A really cool RUclips channel) talked about how heat and drought are causing aquatic deaths. The Colorado and lake mead are shrinking and it's hurting the wildlife that lives in them too.
They're in serious danger too!
The scary thing is when I saw 1acre foot of water is 325,851 GALLONS, so CA cutting 200,000 acre feet is 65 billion gallons? (Acrefoot to gallons from the Colorado river district website)
woah crazy do you have a link??
Natural resorces are enough for everyones NEED but Not for everyones GREED....
BE MINIMALIST👍
Well said!
Seeing all this water stuff past decade. Makes me grateful I live in Montana next to 3 head waters lakes rivers etc. But I also hope this or the next pres. Administration takes action on getting something going to solve this problem. Because It's very very concerning
we need change now!
Yes we are running out of water. Lawncare - Plant fine fescue lawn seed - requires no watering and only needs a cut twice a year. Grows tall and falls over like a soft rug on the lawn. No weeds, no water and no cutting- that’s GREEN.
yes we need desert plants!
My estimation after following the water levels is that the lake is dropping about 12 in every 10 days as, as of now. That figure will probably grow as the summer continues on. The lake has about 88 and 1/2 ft before the turbines get shut down. So I would say definitely buy if not before next summer we will see the Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon shut down. Amazing how this is being downplayed. 25 million people are about to lose their primary source of electricity and fresh water and no alarms are being raised
that's about accurate. Recently it's been 6-10 feet per month which is frightening. I'm going to make an update video soon as it's getting bad. It's SO DOWNPLAYED OPMG
Will getting rid of all the greenery in your state push up the temperatures?
Not that significantly. The point being we need to get rid of grass and other non-native plants and use native, water efficient plants
Plants and greenery will always lower the temperature. Look at a map and see how the rich neighborhoods are green as fuck with significantly nicer temps, and yet the hood is brown and tan, and hot as fuck with absolutely no shade over bus stops or side walks.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist "Not that significantly"? Have you done any research to back up that claim? Genuinely curious.
@@greener336 I have. Sure, temps might raise a little, but first, Vegas is already very hot, and second, there isn't much grass here to begin with. If the entire city was covered in grass, we might see more significant changes, but it's not. Plus, if we replace grass with native plants and not asphalt, they will do the same job sequestering carbon and keeping up cool-ish as grass does
@@greener336 you said it yourself: plants, not necessarily grass. We need plants, yes, I didn't say get rid of plants, I said replace grass with NATIVE plants
Yupp, definitely should have turned off the video at the warning. Too late now! It's so frustrating being born and raised in Vegas, knowing full well we are running out of water yet everywhere I turn there's water literally going down drains. And when I go to the other states that use Lake Mead's water, it's almost painful. The pictures of the water level don't do it justice. Physically going to the dam is heartbreaking. I remember a popular place to cliff jumping into Lake Mead 10 years ago, but now the water is too low to do that. There are so many boat docks that don't even come close to the shore.
So stressful and irritating
i know, it's scary, but it's important to know and learn about. I agree! I'd been seeing pictures for years but it wasn't until I went to the dam this summer and had to keep leaning over the edge just to see the water. My heart dropped into my stomach. It is SO frustrating so let's channel that frustration into action!
Maybe you mentioned it and I missed it, the maximum depth of lake Powell is something like 558 feet. Lake mead is 532 feet deep at its deepest point. This is something a lot of folks miss. When they are talking about the lake losing depth, it is sea level. So, for example, if lake Mead goes from 1057 to 1050, it does not mean that the lake is still 1050 feet deep. The 1050 is feet in sea level. Anyway, you may have said that and I may have missed it.
I moved away from Utah a few years ago and haven’t really kept up with the water news there, but I was totally floored to hear the big wigs in Southern Utah declare that they have only 3-10 years of water left, and then I looked into all of that further and maybe last week, a Lake Mead official said that if they do nothing, lots of folks in Nevada may not be able to turn on their taps in 2023... what??? They all act so blindsided by this... and on top of everything they are still building single family houses like crazy ????? What’s going on down there ?
I did not know that, none of the sources mentioned that! Lake Powell is veryyyy low. But yes, it's true, each year we get stricter and stricter water restricions. It is so sad. It's been a 24-year-long drought, they knew this was coming they just didn't take action until now it's nearly too late
The Simple Environmentalist I am so sorry that it’s so bad, I don’t even know what I would do in your situation. It’s very good that you are so on top of all of this so that you can make plans ahead of time if necessary. You couldn’t pay me to move back to the Southwest right now. I feel bad for the regular folks down there watching this happen.
@@whattheactual4546 thankfully I am only here for another 18 months or so. It's gunna get sad real quick
This is a global problem. There are states and countries that continue to use fossil water that will dry up within a decade or two. Mexico city is in serious trouble. Farming in the desert is a dead concept. You are all going to have to move north.
It sure is a global issue. We won't have to move if we can fix this (I mean, I plan on moving in two years anyway but that's besides the point). People have lived in the desert for centuries! People can thrive out here, like indigenous people have shown, it's just that colonizers never did it right and we are facing the consequences now
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist
Noone ever did large scale farming in the desert before they started diverting surface water and draining acquirers. You may feel for the impact on the farmers, but the are by far the biggest source of the problem.
@@philipaubin4679 actually, no. Yes it's a problem but the farmers are here bc of supply and demand. Us overconsuming cotton and meat drove this. Plus, golf courses are a huge water sucker too
@@greener336 no i'm not saying the city of Vegas, Indigenous People's have been here way longer than white settlers. I never said Vegas was here for centuries, I know how old this country is lol
@@greener336 hmmm i'm not so sure about that. Right on the southern edge of vegas, Petroglyph/Sloan Canyon has petroglyphs AKA proof of life in that region of Vegas before settlers arrived
This was SUPER informative👏👏Definitely imperative to be aware of the fallout from this major lack of conservation because there IS hope for the future!!
Thank you! THERE IS HOPE!!
An acre foot is an acre area one foot deep. There are 640 acres in a square mile and 5280 feet in a mile, hence 5280^2 ÷ 640 or 43560 square feet in an acre. So an acre foot is 43560 cubic feet, 325851 gallons, or 1613 cubic yards.
oh great thank you!
A water level of 895 ft does not mean there is 895 ft of water left in Lake Mead. It means the water level is at the elevation of 895 ft above sea level.
yes I learned that after posting thanks
Lake level is measured as above sea level not from the bottom of the lake. I liked your video.
thanks for the add, thank you!
I haven't lived in my hometown of Vegas in several years now, and the first thing that came to mind watching this video is the shitbag HOA network in that neck of the country. I have yet to come across HOAs out here in the East. I was happy to see other comments about HOAs here.
HOAs ARE THE WORST
There are two types of people out there. Those who care and those who don't. You see them In all walks of life. Whether it be inconsiderate drivers, fly dumpers, noisy neighbours, those with unruly children etc etc. And then you have the opposite of these nasty people. So regarding Lake Mead and Powell, there are those who are completely aware of the crisis going on, yet they still abuse water usage. So that's why authorities have to crack a whip on these people by patrolling neighbourhoods and fining these idiots for breaching water usage laws. Personally I believe they should triple the fines, and even prosecute persistent offenders.
so true and it's so sad
I am not sure why it isn’t a viable option to seed the clouds for rain. The conservation needs to be constant and not wait until mandates come down. I am glad to hear of you using your grey water to irrigate your crops.
If people just have to have grass, the artificial grass looks quite nice and takes zero water.
I wonder if the next step is to have giant desalination plants.
We don’t agree on everything but this video offers a lot of value. Cheers.
agree artificial grass should be the go to. but then again it's made of plastic
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Even though it’s plastic it is there for years and years. I have a bigger issue with single use eating utensils and plastic straws. I am not a real big fan of seeing so many plastic bottles of drinking water.
Loved Okinawa!!
Thanks for your awareness and info on the subject of water. I just found your channel and subscribed, so l'll be back!
Four years ago l was in a brief conversation with a lady at the store, and she looked at me like l was totally insane when l mentioned that only about 3% of the Earths water is drinkable, and we were facing a looming worldwide shortage. Yet here we are!
so happy to have you here!
it's here and now
If you have a strip wash instead of a shower that would save loads of water
i'm not sure what that is
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist just washing using a bowl/sink of water
@@mollypenwhistle7918 oh gotcha!
oh i'm here listening for anyone that mentions how important califorina is.
yes i should've covered that, sorry! What makes coconut oil cause break outs? I love the feel of it so they were my faves haha
This reminds me of day zero in South Africa ☹️
oh no!
If you look at climate graphs from our most accurate ice core readings you will see how dynamic this earth is and has been. We should do what we can but certain things are inevitable. We have to be responsible and adapt!
yes, the earth fluctuates, but all climate scientists agree that this current age of warming will not go back down due to human activity. AKA we are influencing the climate beyond return and need to fix outselves
Maybe it would be wise to prohibit all water consuming animals in the entire area served by the Colorado River basin including domestic pets. Catch and retain rain water for all non-potable uses. Build additional power producing plants up and down the west coast to produce power to desalinate more water.
It's mostly agriculutre that uses the water in the CO river basin
You have a point… why can’t golf be played on different gradients of soil instead of grass. Desert Golf they will call it 🏜🏌️
exactly!! so many better options. Check out my videdeo on why I hate golf :)
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist I will & have been. Subscribed too! I agree. The super wealthy imposes rules they themselves never follow. Very disgusting.
@@ry2thepoint it is an abonination truly
Water is the least of California’s problems.
yeahhhhh i don't think so. Sure inflation and gas pries are bad too but water is essential to life...
I wonder Nevada new football team. My Las Vegas Raiders will have to change the natural grass to artificial turf? I mean they have only been there for three years.
wait they don't use turf? almost all professional stadiums are turf i thoguht
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist The field is on a giant tray that moves into the parking lot so it can get sun.
ruclips.net/video/N457ZoS0zfg/видео.html Here is a short video of it.
What about down stream when the dam no longer lets water out
then no one gets water
There's always Wells
nope they are already used up and not refilling
If Mars and the Moon were reachable. I think if a oil pipeline is doing ok. We can get water from the Midwest floods each year to the west with no problems. Just pumping up hill. Also get some letters out to the billionaires to fund it. Peace
yeah that may be the future
very Blade Runner... but the end game is going to be massive desalination systems powered by huge solar collectors. like in Dubai.
I suppose we will have to work on something
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist running out of fresh water is probably inevitable as population continues to grow. But luckily, as long as we have massive amounts of energy, we can create as much as we need through desalination.
@@_ShaDynasty i suppose so
Cali should have built desalination plants years ago. Golf courses should be banned. “Let them eat grass”.😂
gosh i HATE GOLF and have a 16 min videeo of me hating on it hahah check it out!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist I will!
where we at now lol
what??
Why do you live in a desert?
the government told me to
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist LOL you got me there
@@PD-yd3fr lmao
why not cut them now its stupid to keep that going knowing you are in a big drought
first, i'm literally not in charge so don't call me stupid i have no control. second, cut what?
U people stop moving to Vegas 😜
tell to gov to move me then they told me to live here haha
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist get a job go to military fight for your country then you will deserve a move with a check
if you have time please read this comment i like you to research #teamseas I really want you to know about this and support somehow by shout out in your video talking about it or donating to it I know you care about the environment so much. thank you for your time.
hmm I will look into it if I have time :)
Check out dr Steve Greer videos on zero point energy devices
what is that?
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist the solution to goble warming, and would give us a type one civilization. The rich have stolen zero point energy from us all.
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so scary!
It's the desert people! Migration to this area and the consumption of a scarce resource should have been projected into housing development. Yes the climate is changing, but suggesting that everyone stop eating meat is nearly as absurd as ignoring that you and others like you who moved into the desert southwest are a large part of the problem. Water requirements from 100 years ago vs the population explosion of today are incongruous!
totally agree we should have never colonized the desert but we did and now we need to fix our mess
why not copy China and plant plants they help keep water in the ground...
bc it's the desert so those would be nonnative plants
Not to be rude yet you keep saying “..but I have no idea” Why on earth do you think you should make a video outlining the matter when you straight up don’t know.
because it's possible and i linked the science below. you are welcome to read that to form your own conlcusions but these were the ones I formed
not to mention, this is a predicition. we never know what the future will hold but for now it looks grim
Right,I don’t live in the sw and have long been aware of the issue at hand.”Oh I only care because I live here now” attitude I rather dunce
thank God I live in Maine we don't need anything from you west coasters
okay no need to be rude. i'm a midwesterner anyway. please be kind on my channel or leave
Congratulations for living in the most boring place on earth !!
Your comment that you can't figure out what an acre foot of water is kind of put me off to tell the truth. It takes a few seconds to google.
Your prejudice against golf courses is troubling. Is it just golf courses or any sporting activity? When you drive by a soccer field do you think -what a bunch of stupid kids wasting water?
Golf courses in that area have actually had to start being more conservative so they water much less area in general and are more frugal with areas they do water. Most use non potable water. But golf did not start on irrigated courses that is a modern preference. There is no actual reason to have grass at all other than preference really. Same for most sports actually baseball for example is already dirt around the bases the grass just looks nice.
Your idea to replace grass with artificial turf is poorly thought out. The last thing we need is more plastics in the environment. Do we really need to have everything green in the desert? Personally I find the desert to be beautiful in its own right.
Seriously you live in a desert and the thought of having to not waste water is scary for you? Humans actually lived on the earth for 100's of thousands of years without an unlimited supply of clean water for their lawns. A human actually needs about a half gallon per day. Astronauts on the ISS use maybe 1-1/2 and most of that is recycled and reused many times.
Even farmers in that area are wasteful of water -maybe the desert is not a good place to raise cows but there are a lot of crops that can be grown with much less water. In my opinion though I would stop growing grass for aesthetics before I stop growing food if it came to that.
It is made more obvious by looking at lake Mead but the truth is that all over the USA aquafers are being pumped dry leaving us to use contaminated surface water so the Southwest is no different really.
The "water crisis" is a fantasy though. Humans evolved without unlimited fresh water and they will go on if in the future they do not have unlimited amounts again. We also have the technology to purify ocean water and this planet is mostly ocean. The only crisis here is that people got used to huge amounts of clean cheap water and we may have to cut back a bit. That is not really a crisis it is an inconvenience.
It is not just water though -same with electricity and oil. If you give people lots of cheap power they will take it for granted and waste a lot of it. If we started paying more more for energy we would be more frugal with it.
In any case a future where we can reduce climate changes will require us to rethink how we live and what our houses, buildings, cars, farms, communities, etc. look like.
I did google it. I couldn't find it. hahahahahhahahahah why is it troubling to you? Bc you like golf? No, it's stricly golf. Check out my full video on why it's so bad for the environment. Wow, you wrote a novel,t hanks for the engagement.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist
To be totally frank I find it troubling because it calls into question your competence and or the amount of time you are spending actually learning about what you are talking about. Neither of those things are desirable.
I have noticed that many people often can't string together more that one sentence before they become exhausted so I can see how that would amaze you.
You maybe need to make a little more effort.
@@ChrisStewart2 you can't say how much effort i did or didn't put in. Yikes, you think I'm exhausted? I researched hours for this video. if you don't like it, leave, but don't call me stupid
@@ChrisStewart2 obviously i was able to find he conversion quite simply. You missed what I said then which calls into question your competence. I wanted a comparison, not just a conversion. What I mean is how much is an acre foot in comparison to say a football field or a basketball court, something my audience could easily picture cause saying 1 acre foot is 325851 gallons is hard to picture without a comparision
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist
First I did not call you stupid I said you appear to be incompetent. (not the same) Second my competence is not an issue since I am not attempting to educate the public on this issue . It could very well be that I am not competent to address environmental issues.
It also was very easy to Google the average football field area (1.32 acres) so...
So anyway this is getting tiresome. At least you have some passion on the subject.
Our saviour TRUMP will save us! MAGA!
you know he denies climate change, right? climate denial isn't going to save climate crises-related events
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist OH FAKE NEWS! Now don't get triggered because TRUMP'S got climate change by the Putssy, put your faith in our God & saviour TRUMP.
He will save us.
Lol. I was being sarcastic. There's still fools out there that think their corrupt political figure is going to save them. Russia, along with its Latin American Allies are on the brink of attacking Babylon the Great, and no one is paying attention.
I feel very worried for anyone living in California, Las Vegas, Florida, and New York. If you can get out of Vegas this year woman THEN DO IT. I promise you won't regret it looking back 2-3 years from now.
I couldn't understand how you people don't realize you live in a desert and it's just going back to a desert no matter what you do you live in a desert you blocked off the river to give you some water and you're drinking it all up it's where it's going but you live in a desert accept it why are you so upset about it
what do yoou mean "going back to a desert" it's been a desert for the last few millions years and we didn't change it into something that's not a desert haha. I know it's a desert. It's also a drought due to climate change. I'm upset about water mismanagement and no one taking the climate crisis seriously. If you're gunna be rude just leave hahahahha