As Lake Mead continues to dry up more bodies are found. One was found inside a barrel. Others are not so malicious. One body found was a woman who fell off her personal watercraft but her body was never found until this record drought. Not sure why I'm posting this other than boredom and escapism from typical news.
I flew over lake mead today , it’s wild . Apparently there’s only 1 open boat launch . Lake Powell is struggling too . Lake havasu isn’t ...seems like it’s , gasp , almost political at this point
i read a great fictional book years ago about water rights and a crazy company who owns them called liquid gold. Now many years later fiction is becoming reality
I'm so glad I got out of Phoenix when the getting was good. There were fields by my house, farmer would turn three crops annually. Imagine the water usage to make that happen in a desert. Kids do miss running the canals on their moto's!
Evidently, dead bodies and other finds in the bottom of rapidly drying lakes is the last thing to be really concerned about(!) But Kim K has a nice ass, doesn't she?....
Yeah hit up Youtube.. there is a guy that does some clips on it too.. 4 hours plus to Launch and Haul out a boat.. The Lake will be a Valley before we know it.. Powell is definitely close behind.. Glad I got to experience it for a week when it was Full.
How much e vehicle charging capacity has been lost with the dropping water levels in Mead and othe reservoirs?
ive read that it’s considered a “holding lake.” It doesn’t fluctuate more than 5 feet. I don’t know either way , but I try to drink enough beer that I can assist in keeping the lake level satisfactory for future generations .
Quite a bit. Wait until California starts charging the farmers a more reasonable water rate, food cost will skyrocket, I presume. They idiot politicians bust the chops of the rest of the state to conserve water, but farming used something ridiculous like 93% of the water. So even if we conserve the 20% they want us to by putting in fake yard, etc., it is still an insignificant drop in the bucket compared to what is used to grow crops. AL DA REST YOU FOOLS NEED TO PAYYYYY. UUUPPPPP and quit living off the back of our poorly resourced water rights. Actually we should build desalination plants and everyone who eats california food Can share in that cost with increased water bills packed into the cost of your fruits and nuts, plus veggies too.
Man, it's a shitty problem for sure. From what I see from my travels, nothing scientific, I believe that water rights were over sold to begin with, especially for farming and ranching. But they got them Appropriation Dates! Then, there's the use it or lose it reg. But I don't know how well that is enforced. It's not the first time that the west has been dry-er. See "Cliff Dwellers" dilemma, for example. https://extension.unr.edu/publication.aspx?PubID=3750 The weird thing to me is that the cities all seem to have a perpetual growth strategy, like Las Vegas. They have tried to rob some of the other basins of the ground water because they can see the writing on the wall. There is a stupid WY wind project going on now that puts transmission lines across, probably a thousand miles of WY, UT, and NV so that LV and So Cal can have "clean" energy. Will there ever be a realization that the resources can't keep pace with the growth?
Relax, I have it from good authority by the Cali know-it-all that the State of California has water rights in place.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead, But Mead does when receding this decade. It took longer than I thought to get that second line to somewhat match up with the tune. Gordon Lightfoot was a genius of a song writer.
I read an interesting article written by a 70's mob lawyer. He says the bodies aren't Mafia hits- the Mob didn't want to risk having anyone look into the casinos, so they would just take their victims to LA to administer the coup de grace.
Stupid question... But say the lake does completely dry up. Where does everyone get their water that rely on it then? Move to the southwest they said... it's nice and warm out here they said... But we have no water.
California farming provides a HUGE amount of produce etc that not only the rest of the US relies on but exports too. Most have no clue how critical farming in Cali really is.