Bye Bye Lake Mead

[cancel2 2022]

America has got places with nowhere near enough water...parched Earth and dried out lakes and reservoirs

...and other places where they have too goddam much water...constant flooding and water damage.

We can get oil from one place to another through pipes with no trouble.

Why can't we get water moved that same way?

This question seems rather naive and uninformed.

The distance and elevation changes make this an extraordinary engineering challenge. It would be cheaper to build desalination plants with renewable power sources. It would be even cheaper still to build water conservation infrastructure.
The water belongs to someone, and they aren’t going to give it away for free. They might not even let you take it.

 

[martin]

from the link....


they fear the loss of some tiny marine organisms but have no problem forcing the fly-over farmers to sacrifice for their thirst.......

From your own quote, stupido, they fear the loss of the food chain.

 

[cancel2 2022]

From your own quote, stupido, they fear the loss of the food chain.

Over exaggerated like so much in California.

 

[LV426]

This would take 254 days to fill.

Does the desert get 254 days of torrential downpours a year?

Or is a desert a desert?

 

[LV426]

Over exaggerated like so much in California.

Or exaggerated like everything you post here from SE Asia because you have a warrant out for your arrest in the West.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Was there in 2006 and back then, it was an actual lake.

Now?

AP PHOTOS: Extremely low levels at Lake Mead amid drought
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — An abandoned old power boat juts upright from the cracked mud like a giant tombstone. Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-photos-amid-drought-lake-043819296.html

Saw Lake Mead and the great dam in 1969. It's almost unrecognizable now.

 

[anonymoose]

Which has caught up on them at an accelerated rate due to climate change

So you’re saying this was inevitable. I agree.

 

[anonymoose]

O

Was there in 2006 and back then, it was an actual lake.

Now?

AP PHOTOS: Extremely low levels at Lake Mead amid drought
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — An abandoned old power boat juts upright from the cracked mud like a giant tombstone. Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-photos-amid-drought-lake-043819296.html

Bye bye L.A. and good riddance.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

America has got places with nowhere near enough water...parched Earth and dried out lakes and reservoirs

...and other places where they have too goddam much water...constant flooding and water damage.

We can get oil from one place to another through pipes with no trouble.

Why can't we get water moved that same way?

I suppose that the concept of water rights has a lot to do with that. Canada would have something to say about it if we started piping the water from the four Great Lakes that we share with them. Ditto for cities along the Mississippi River, if a pipeline were to take its water and send it elsewhere.

 

[LV426]

O
Bye bye L.A. and good riddance.

Bye Bye to the entire Southwest, not just LA...particularly Inland CA and all those almond and alfalfa farms.

 

[cancel2 2022]

So you’re saying this was inevitable. I agree.

As usual the likes of Arsecheese is totally incapable of differentiating between natural variability and anthropogenic climate variation.

 

[ExpressLane]

Was there in 2006 and back then, it was an actual lake.

Now?

AP PHOTOS: Extremely low levels at Lake Mead amid drought
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — An abandoned old power boat juts upright from the cracked mud like a giant tombstone. Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-photos-amid-drought-lake-043819296.html

So much for hydro being a renewable energy source.

 

[LV426]

So much for hydro being a renewable energy source.

It is a renewable source, you just fucked it up because you don't believe in science.

So as always, your idiocy and ineptitude is what is to blame for the catastrophe years later.

Always.

 

[ExpressLane]

It is a renewable source, you just fucked it up because you don't believe in science.

So as always, your idiocy and ineptitude is what is to blame for the catastrophe years later.

Always.

Lake Mead has been losing water for a LONG time. It hasn't been full since 1983. Why didn't YOU guys fix it when YOU guys were in charge? Oh that is right YOU kept generating from it like there was no tomorrow. Well tomorrow has arrived. Well if hydro is a renewable energy source renew Lake Mead.

 

[cancel2 2022]

So much for hydro being a renewable energy source.

To repeat what I said earlier, Lake Powell should be returned to nature.

 

[cancel2 2022]

Lake Mead has been losing water for a LONG time. It hasn't been full since 1983. Why didn't YOU guys fix it when YOU guys were in charge? Oh that is right YOU kept generating from it like there was no tomorrow. Well tomorrow has arrived. Well if hydro is a renewable energy source renew Lake Mead.

Lousy Vermin is always full of shit, always.

 

[ExpressLane]

O
Bye bye L.A. and good riddance.

I hope they stay in California.

 

[ExpressLane]

To repeat what I said earlier, Lake Powell should be returned to nature.

its only about 23% full now.

 

[ExpressLane]

I wonder how many will realize overpopulation of dry areas is the real problem......southern California should learn how make their own drinkable water instead of just trying to seize everyone else's........

Amen

 

[Geeko Sportivo]

Water is an essential to life! Water is a natural resource. Water resources can run dry.

The Great Salt Lakes are an example of that! The Petrified forest is yet another. Both are deserts today!

Building reservoirs was a great idea. Water Conservation is a good thing.

But, we will never be able to stop the Sun from evaporating water here on Earth- So when water is in short supply- WE NEED SOME NEW IDEAS AND WE MAY HAVE TO CHANGE SOME OF MAN'S BAD and reckless HABITS.