Out of Water?
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- Retired life in Ajijic, Mexico on Lake Chapala. RV Life. Projects in the mountains of central Mexico, our USA travels in a 40' Monaco motor home, or whatever else is on my mind today. :)
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A rare treat to listen to a man that uses logic and a sound mind! Thanks Jerry!
Thanks for the kind words …. To my mother and my Banker I'm Gerald. Are you also a Jerry?
This is an impressive presentation of the situation, the history, the mechanics, how the locals deal with it and where it's going. Especially for a retired old man living on the north shore of Lake Chapala :-) And with a spider drama thrown in. Love it! nice job Jerry!
Thanks! :)
We appreciate your hobby and love your take on things lakeside :)
Enjoy your showers! Thank you again for allowing us to take a peek into your world.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks, Jerry, for an enlightening discussion of the water situation.
Living as a solo woman nomad in my van for 3.5 years before moving to southern Mexico was really enlightening about what I NEED to be happy. I only used 1 gallon of water a day for everything in my van. Who would have thought that I could wash my long hair with 2 cups of water? It will be interesting to watch humans adapt to climate change.
Yes, interesting and humans WILL adapt. Nature finds a way. We are part of nature.
This will adapt when given no choice.
It's never as big of a problem as they want you to think - more power and bigger budgets are the motivation.
Welcome to Mexico but PLEASE DO NOT BRING liberal left wing ideas
It's not always possible to adapt. You can't adapt to getting run over by a train. People who are alive today might be able to adapt, but there's a point beyond which there will be no food, no shelter, no adapting. Humans can't survive on the surface of Venus.
There's a time for optimism, but there's also a time for pragmatism. Optimism usually doesn't understand the full situation. That's fine when death isn't the most likely outcome. But optimism can't save you from the aforementioned train.
There's no need to save the planet. The planet will go on long after every living thing on it has been boiled back into primordial soup. And not worrying about the future is mankind's critical flaw.
Anybody know Aesop's fable about the ant and the grasshopper?
As i am an old lady, i have watched nature for years, and there are cycles. Some winters there is no snow, others there are mounds of snow til spring. This year we are having so much rain in july, aug trees in old parks are falling over. Nature takes care of us, if we let her.
Wise words woman. :)
Hi Jerry. You are my trusted lifeline when I am not in MX. Thanks for the update. I have outside and inside cameras now and watched in horror a flood in my subdivision. I had 6 inches of muddy water inside my house! The town sent some workers (about 5 of them) and my neighbor who has my keys let them in. I watched them push the water outside, move the furniture and she finished the cleaning even though her own house was flooded and she had lost the love of her life the day before. Brave and loving Mexicans! That’s how they are…
Say Hi to Liz
Yes. That’s how they are. :)
Thanks Jerry, always entertaining and informative. Thanks for sharing....
JC, you are a man after mine own heart. I love your perspective here.
Thanks Rick! :)
super smart guy. I love to watch and listen, thank you.
Takes one to recognize one. Thanks for the kind words. :)
You're a wonderful man!
Igualmente. :)
Jerry, Thank you for being a voice of intelligence on "the you tubes" ! I enjoy all of your videos and appreciate the time you put into making them. Hi to Lynn. Nancy in Mobile.
Thanks Nancy. :)
Thank you very much for this video. I moved here 4 years ago to lower la Foresta and am in the process of growing a mini permaculture food forest. Another way to conserve water although like you l have an advantage by my location.
Great assessment of water issues there! Very interesting and enlightening comments about lake Mead and snow pack! You tell them Jerry!!!
When at my home base, is STILL do "military" showers 95%of the time!😂 Have a blessed and beautiful day. LUCRETIA
Blood, Sweat, and Tears!
Good to know!
Perfect timing. 4.5 inches last night caused another small land slide. Third of the season that I know of. Lots of water falls to enjoy. Expect Maiden of the Mist to arrive and take tours of Tepalo.
Very well presented, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Jerry thanks for that info. about the level of water and keep up the excellent videos from jose p. born in tuxcueca acros the lake
Thanks, will do!
Great vid Jerry. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Thank you for sharing the old quotes. Crisis is cyclical. As a resident of Sayulita we are very familiar with water shortages. When you are buying/renting a place in Mexico it is very important to understand the elevation of your water storage tank relative to the rest of the town. You may have the great view up on the hillside but you may have to haul or buy water from a tanker truck (pipa). We bought property at a lower elevation and have never had to buy water except one time when the town pump was broken for a week. Electricity has become more of a concern than water with our frequent brownouts. We have 16 solar panels. I encourage all people to put in a solar panel system. Ours paid for itself in less than 4 years.
Good advise. :)
Love your videos. This one seems to be a little dimly lit, but I love the content.
That banner wasn"t . The sun was blinding him.
I'm still learning to use my new Pocket 3 camera. I too noticed that the brightness was off. :)
I love your videos Jerry (: thanks for the update on level on lake Chapala, i live in Guadalajara at a high point and the concern for water was real back in april before the rain season started. I go fishing sometimes and also noticed a drastic downfall in water levels on other masses of water that supply the city, hopefully there still are some months of rain and with a little luck the levels will go up but as city grows, the water problem at long term will not be solved without thinking on a sustainable solution.
Hope fully the powers that be do that thinking. :)
One of the nice things about a long life is that we see that things run on more of a wheel than a straight line. Yes, we have more people and it seems to get hotter every summer here in S. Florida, but that is probably on a cycle too. Conservation is a good idea, in consideration of others and for our budgets! In the olden days, my mother in law poured her dish pan water on her plants in the garden. I wonder? 🤔
I run my washing machine to the garden instead of the septic tank here in Texas. Put out my food prep waste in the back field for the Texas sun or foraging possums which keep snakes away. Get back to Nature. Hard times coming. Victory gardens are critical. Also I have a stocked pond and 450 ft deep well over an aquifer. Rural Texans are natural conservationists. Sounds like Mexico expat areas are turning into California. Time to consider Texas if you leave expat politics behind. Unless you like problems: then Dallas, Austin or Houston are your towns.
My grandma did that, too. My mom and dad grew up in the Midwest in the great depression and the dust bowl of the 1930s … it was part of the mindset to not waste resources like water or money because they knew what not having it was like.
You are awesome! Thank you for clarifying the situation. I truly felt it was being exaggerated for clicks on other RUclips accounts. Your logic is correct in my opinion. Keep making videos....I love your content!😊
Thanks Brenda! :)
JC, we watch your Ajijic videos pretty regularly and I really appreciate the fact that you take the time to share your factual knowledge of the area, specially the lake. There are too many people sharing opinions made without any or with limited facts.
Thanks Lewey. :)
Many thanks Jerry. Interesting, informative, and entertaining.
I wonder if you'd be willing to give us a tour of your water system? Would love to see the aljibe and tanaque (sp?) ? Thanks.
I don't have the underground aljibe. It’s not necessary down here on the lake. Also, I have a swimming pool full of available water. The tinaco on the roof is 750 liters.
The lake in Pátzcuaro Michaocan was almost dry like Chapala. It has been raining so much, so now the lake is at 100% capacity.. Chapala will be at 100% capacity by the end of the month. The Jalisco Governor just inagurated a new presa in El Zapotillo. It will solve the water shortages in Guadalajara for the next 50 years..
So … the glass is no longer 1/2 full. It’s on its way to 100%. :)
@@JCTravelStorieslol!!
@SantaMonicaTraveler Mexico still has a banana republic government. Politicians go into power just to load up their pockets with tax payer money. That's why public works never get completed.. I don't think the politicians in Jalisco are that bad though.... But those lakes depend on the rain in order to fill up every year. At the end of the day God created Earth, so he will most likely continue to bless us with rain.....
Love the lesson and map on Lerma watershed. Enjoy those showers! Hi to Lynn.
Thank you, I will. :)
Well said Jerry.
Thanks. :)
Jerry, it's funny that I just saw one of Jerry Brown's videos yesterday showing homes for sale in the area, and he did indeed talk about the water crisis in the North Shore of Lake Chapala. I felt that he was a bit more "half empty" on the topic. RUclips hasn't given me any video feeds from you in months even though I'm signed up for "all" alerts from your channel. So, I am glad to see that you are doing well.
I have posted one or more videos every week for years. Sorry you're not being notified. Try unsubscribing and then subscribe again. DON'T FORGET STEP TWO!! :)
@JCTravelStories I followed your suggestion. Hopefully, I'll get all future notifications.
Glad you got rain.. it must be really difficult for communities ...are people moving away?
LOL! Moving away? No they are still coming. :)
Jerry I’m happy that the lake has filled back up!
hi Jerry, love those hot showers. we have had a good monsoon season here so good in fact I'm stuck on my property. it will dry soon. hope to see you both this winter. Radie
Hi Radie. See you and Quark in the Q. :)
Enjoyed your. Idea this morning be well
Hello JC,
Great video. I had a house in Tlachichilco Del Carmen from 1993 to 1999. If I remember correctly, the lake was low from 94-96. As you stated the lake comes & goes.
Ted
I love this talk... since my "home" is in Oregon where we have SO much rain, and my brothers place is in Arizona where they have to purchase water for drinking and cooking, I am so aware of water! Also, in Mexico where we spend a good chunk of our wintertime, we purchase water for drinking and city water for everything else. I think the worst part of any climate changes are the politicians that use "nature" to push certain agendas ... I guess that will always be the case though :)
Yep. Agendas. :)
I've been watching the cycles, it seems to me that nowadays every four years it will rain like crazy somewhere and then there will be 3 years of poor rain, the thing governments have to do is build water reservoirs to take advantage of the cycles, otherwise the water runs out to the sea and its lost, thanks for your videos, I'm always waiting for them.
I remember when the lake was way down in '81.
Love your videos
Love you comment! :)
good job explainng I am no chicken little either
Everything is crazy on this day's Jerry
Aqua ! Hooray 😂
Yes, north shore of Lake Chapala.
Great video Jerry. Since I have had a house in Chapala, 5 yrs , I have been told by many that there are a lot of the fence structures under the water in the lake. I found it interesting that you said the govt. took the fences out when the had made the deal with the provinces. Did they take all of them out or is this story I have been told false ? Thanks
I can not speak for all of the lake, but I personally saw many fences and also irrigation pipe being taken and hauled away by federal officers here in Ajijic.
@@JCTravelStories Thanks for the reply Jerry
Yup it flooded 😅my son’s house was flooded.
always enlightening ! one extra question . Is the water now more or less polluted? thanks again
Not as much as it has been in the past. Low water levels concentrated contaminants. More water equals pollution diluted. Also more sewage treatment plants and some government oversight of agricultural runoff and industry pollution up the Lerma river. More work to do. Hiumans are slow learners.
@@JCTravelStories thanks again . we met a few yrs back and you taught me to love carne en su jugo !!!
In Chapala at the Plaza. :)
In Chapala at the Plaza. :)
Hi Jerry, flooding might be the next thing that you say you don’t worry about😅 But Rio Zula has been a real Rio the last few days. I hope the lake doesn’t come up too far. Unfortunately it seems sometimes because of global warming the rains are torrential and if they decide to park and dump for 12 to 24 hours straight. …Oh boy.
So ,,,. They named the street correctly? Since it was named many years ago ….. doesn't seem like the water running is a new thing. :)
Jerry, if y’all get into trouble, you can park that RV on my land and be safe.
Thanks Pamela. What State are you in?
@@JCTravelStories I’m about a 40 minute drive north of Austin Texas. 12 fenced acres with pond, well, electricity, 2 little dwellings and down to 2 rescued horses. Don’t overstay your luck there. We all have a tendency to procrastinate……
Thanks, Jerry. Great video..Very interesting in water management there.. I have seen a few things about Lake Chapala, but what is the biological health of the lake today? Maybe that is another video. Ha.
There are many more wastewater treatment plants and the government monitors pollution from agriculture and industry. There is still work to be done, but the lake is much cleaner.
Lake Mead is most certainly NOT “full of water.” It is more than 166 ft. BELOW what is considered “full pool.” Just because it is up a bit (relatively speaking) from 2 years ago, does not mean the southwest is in the clear.
Thanks for the update. Hopefully you get good snowfall again this year in the Rockies. :)
@SantaMonicaTraveler the thing is, no government body has said the lake is even near full, or out of danger. This is not political.
Back in April there was news about the City of Mexico running out of water by June 2024. Haven't heard anything. Water is still flowing.
And then it rained …..
There is plenty of water it’s just controlled 😢enjoy your videos ❤
Yep.
Elon Musk agrees.
Stating 70% of the Earth is water & desalination is not an expensive process. 🤠✌️
This a water world 🌎 question do we live above water or below?!?!
I was watching a video of some men touring the forest in Zacatecas on a vintage Mennonite buggy, and some deer crossed in front of them, those deer were so fat!!! But also cows are fat. Too much water these days.
Jerry, a couple questions. Can you drink, brush teeth, etc the city water? Can you flush TP?
We do not drink or cook with city water. We do brush our teeth with it. We flush tp. We are not on city sewer. We have a septic system. We use septic safe tp. Some older homes have very small sewer pipes like 3” or even 2”. Norma is 4 to 6”. Smaller pipes can be easily plugged by TP. Not flushing TP also a cultural thing … kind of a hang over practice from days when it was a bigger problem. Every week my maid empties the trash can in my bathroom which is kept by the sink and not used for TP, but she relocates it to by the toilet every week. I find it amusing, so I've never mentioned it to her. :)
Saludos de un venezolano en Santiago de Chile.
Chile parece un buen lugar para estar para un venezolano esta semana. :)
Interesting video! RUGER
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Water problems in Oaxaca😊😊
Hello, Jerry and Lynn.We Seeing you in the background Lynn. I don't know if we've ever seen your sea wall.
It’s 6 to 7 feet high ( the lake level is that much lower than my yard) not counting the balustrades on top.
Jerry, I thought the federal government just build a new dam in Zapotillo that will be supplying water to all Guadalajara?
They will still be pumping from lake Chapala also.
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Lawns are one of the greatest environmental disaters on earth. I have 3 houses since 1992 and have never, ever, watered my lawn and never will.
That is an odd statement that "10% of the water comes from rainfall and the rest from the watershed", That entire basin, 100%, collects water from rainfall which ultimately finds its way into the river and thus the lake, minus any utilized or diverted as it flows downstream.
Climate cycles have been changing since the creation of the planet and will continue after the human race is gone. "Global warming" is a scam. It is foolish and arrogant to belive that 137 years of scientific climate observation is definative. That said, we as humans need to be good stewards of the earth and appreciate what it provides.
The 10% thought was LOCAL rain fall. Of course the whole water shed is fed by rain water. Sorry you were confused.
What they need to do in Western Mexico is to be aware of how much water they get through rains and how much goes to waste, they need to learn to recycle. It is incredible how they frequently complain about water shortages when they have storms that blow everything in their way with wind and the amount of water they drop. I am from there but I live in the Californian desert, I know what I am talking about. Greetings Jerry.
Yes, and old water pipes leak, and agriculture still floods fields, and not enough people let their grass die. Humans take a long time to learn.
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The climate scientist (not the crackpots) have been pretty much accurate about what will/is happening; the only thing that seems to have them stumped is the speed of the events. They say it won't be a lack of water that's a problem, quite the opposite. It will certainly be a challenging world for the next generations, maybe AI will be a help...or not. I enjoy long hot showers as well. :)
Can you drill a well at your house? That might be an option!
Nope. Don't need one.
Haven't commented in ages, but absolutely, chicken little never goes away. Everything's a crisis. More government! 😵💫
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Yep. :)
I shower once a month 🦨
I notice that not showering every day when in my RV life that my skin is better. A month seems a little long unless you're a hermit.
Of course, every place is different when it comes to water. We live in North Georgia. Water is everywhere because it rains a lot here. In our subdivision, we have streams crisscrossing around homes everywhere. I do however have a crazy water story from our part of the world... South of us in Fulton County an empty Atlanta lot with no water line gets nearly a $30K bill. The landowner appealed based on the reality that no water line services his property. He lost the appeal. A nearly $30K bill for something that falls in abundance from the sky here. How insane is that? At least healthcare is affordable here. Just kidding Jerry!
Move to Mexico. :)
Did someone say you were selling your casa?
I have no idea what someone said or says …. But my house is not for sale. …. How much would you pay?
¿ Y la calidad del agua en él lago en éstos 20 años a mejorado ? Saludos
Sí. Hay muchas más plantas de tratamiento de aguas residuales y el gobierno supervisa la contaminación de la agricultura y la industria. Aún queda trabajo por hacer, pero el lago está mucho más limpio. :)
@@JCTravelStories Qué bien ! Gracias y saludos
I was in Ajijic yesterday and there was a gentleman and his small daughter fishing at the shore. I’m glad to hear the water quality is improving. Keep up the good work Jerry and my best to Liz
Sir your audio is very muffled mumbled. Please check your audio
Thanks for the heads up. :)
Why aren’t people collecting rainwater?
Because there is no water crisis and the earth, lake, and aquifer are collecting it for us. Rain water collection makes sense in the desert. I do it at the ranch in Arizona. The north shore of the largest lake in Mexico. …. (Natural, Not man made in a desert like the big reservoirs in the SW USA) …. Is in a tropical latitude, not a desert.
@@JCTravelStories I’m hear all over Mexico that they complain about the water. If they are so worried they can collect rain. Lol 😂
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Thank cpca cola and the american tourist industry for the water shortage in adfition to climate change
Anything else you want to blame on Coca Cola …. Maybe the high incidence of diabetes? Oh, by the way, the tourist industry in Mexico is a very positive part of the economy and the source of many, many jobs and they're not all Americans. You seem to have some axes to grind. :)
@@JCTravelStories the mexicans do. Maybe come out of your bubble and see what american corporations are doing. Read about coke sucking all the wall so that people in those communities have to drink coke instead of water. Or people in the community get water shipments once a week while hotels have unlimited water. Housing for locals is unaforthable because of tourist. Sure lots of slave wages are provided, that is why you can afford to live there.
Benjamin Franklin said that the most heated disagreements are often between people who agree and don't realize it. I was agreeing with you about the adverse influence of corporate America on the lives of all of us. Regarding the tourist industry in Mexico … it’s about 9% of the Mexican economy. Keep grinding your axe, but the reality is that the tourist part of the service industry in Mexico is a small part of the 57% of total service jobs. Also, the tourist service jobs have a higher average wage than other service sector jobs. You can bitch about tourists in Mexico, but the economy and the poor workers would be worse off without those tourist dollars. Housing would be the exception …. Sorta …. those dynamics are not tourist influences. Immigrants with dollars to spend do raise housing prices. On the other hand … maids and gardeners, plumbers, brick layers, mechanics and doctors earn considerably more in popular expat areas than in other parts of Mexico. Think before you judge.
Amo a mi lindo chapala jalisco.
¡Yo también!
😅who aré the momias back
They're not momias. They're monks. Came with the house. They just sit there and don't cause any trouble.
lake chapala usually gets low on summer days, but still gets water from lerma river all year round which is higly contaminated, there fore lake chapala ii always have water, then once it rains it gets water from rain, but water from lake isn,t healty anyways!! i use to eat charales back in the 60's 70's but not no more since those times...
You are correct about the Lerma River …. But it’s cleaner than it used to be. :)
The lake was bone dry several years ago.
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The lowest in recorded history was 15% of capacity in 1954.
@Jerry,
I knew what youre prediction was almost certain to be. I also have lived long enough to witness the predictive madness come and go ad nauseum, and all that really happened was new govt spending on pet projects, stunning debt, cost of living increase and dollar value decrease....
You would think that by now, reasonable people would have wised up, but apparently, it's very easy to overestimate the intelligence of the general public. And it's easy to recognize that the powers that be like to have it that way because everything that could be done to improve the situation, from teaching children in school how the art of propaganda works and how to develop life skills, to schools competing to attract students, to mitigating the mechanism by which people vote themselves handouts. Of course, none of that is going to happen anytime soon because when people get in power they like to keep it that way.
Meanwhile, they distract people by telling them to "look over there!", and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Bendiciones a usted junto con su familia.
Exactamente!
Why not drill a proper 200 foot well?
I have city water … why would I pay to drill a well?
@@JCTravelStories To be self sufficient, and have a reliable source of plenty of clean safe water. Peace of mind.
I already have peace of mind, but here's a piece of my mind …. More rain water shed is predicted for the years to come. I live in a lake front property on the largest lake in Mexico whose volume is protected by the federal government as a water source for the second largest city in Mexico. I own a reverse osmosis water purifier that cost less than $300 USD.
Oops I wasn't done …. A well costs $10,000 to $30,000 USD. Self Sufficiency might have something to do with not spending money foolishly for a false sense of it. :
@@JCTravelStories thank you for your honest answer. I hope the predictions you count on are correct. I'm on a farm in Ontario Canada. I don't trust city water, and can't imagine life without a good well.
Concerning global warming and man. Doesn't seem there is a chance of mans hot air ending.
Do have a dog ?
If I were you I’d get one they’re great companions
I agree and do love dogs, but we're cat people. :)
I have dos gatos negro myself 🐈⬛. I can’t see myself going back to dogs after having a few over my life.
I can't see life without one .
Cats are a pain-- they walk on u and it hurts. They eat so often. They get under foot and the worst is they kill birds .
I'm sorry to say it, but. . You are being environmentally irresponsible for taking long showers. It doesn't matter if you "pay extra" I live in California and we all have to be conscious of the fact that water is not an endless resource. I do enjoy your videos and would love to come see Lake Chapala.
Elon Musk disagrees. 😉
Did you take into effect that the RV half of my life requires military showers and not every day? I afford my self those long showers in Mexico as a reward for those 6 months in the RV. I probably use less water in a year than you. You should leave California.