Latest on Lakes Mead and Powell--Worst Known Drought Ever

Either that, or too many people in Nevada, Colorado, California and Mexico using too much water. One or the other.

I'm sitting here in front of the Colorado river as it exits Colorado It is the same height and same CFS flow as it was 15 years ago when i was here last.

Also, the monsoons are crazy this year.

It seems to me that someone is mismanaging the water accidentally on purpose.

Maybe the same people who are destroying the food sources?

wow that's crazy and such a huge disconnect from what's being reported. I am posting another link to an article --also from The Hill-that gets into drought conditions elsewhere in the country. See if you agree with any of it as it relates to the CO River.

In 4 more days - Aug 15 - Colorado River basin water recipients must declare how much water they are willing to conserve.

Bureau of Reclamation wants 2 to 4 million acre-feet conserved.

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Bureau of Reclamation Director Camille Touton has directed all seven states to trim 2 million to 4 million acre-feet of water next year – a cut that likely would have to be sustained through 2026. Maybe longer.

The Desert Sun reports that California might be willing to cut up to 500,000 acre-feet, though sources told the newspaper that’s still a moving target. The state is expected to consume more than 4.5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water this year.

Meanwhile, the Upper Basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico have already said that because the Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada are doing more to deplete the river, they should bear the brunt of the cuts.

That would leave Nevada and Arizona to make up the difference.

But as John Fleck, a water policy expert from the University of New Mexico, pointed out in a blog, “Nevada’s share of the river is so tiny that its contribution is couch cushion change, a rounding error. That leaves, in round numbers, 1.5 million acre-feet of water to come out of Arizona just to get to Touton’s bottom line number for additional conservation.”

Considering that CAP delivered about a million acre-feet of water this year, that would mean completely wiping out Colorado River water for users in metro Phoenix and Tucson – and then cutting another 500,000 acre-feet or so from on-river users, such as Yuma-area farmers.
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*it's time to pay the drought piper in the southwest

MORE INFO ON THE DROUGHT:

Seven stats that explain the West’s epic drought


"The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on the states most affected — as well as the solutions Americans are embracing.
It’s difficult to capture the scale of the drought facing the western U.S., the worst the region has seen in 1,200 years...."


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Last Edited by telling it straight on 08/11/2022 10:45 AM

Oh yeah..

Even if we are in a drought, it is def made to be worse.

If there was a crisis, why would California be allowed to release freshwater into the ocean to preserve some bs ecosystem?

Why would states in this region still allow semmingly unchecked development and still offer incentives for businesses to come to the region further taxing water availability?

Good questions.

Spin your magic rocks harder

Stop taking showers! Gross waste of water.

That wont fix this.

Can confirm. Monsoons are nuts this year. River normal. Death Valley even has already had multiple thousand year floods just in the past month!

The article in OP is full of crap.

It's not that the river has no water, just that so many have claims on that water and because water is so tough to get elsewhere in the West it's going to be a problem

It's raining here right now.

RIPE BULSHIT!

The drought from the 13-1500s was far worse.

Ever hear of the Anasazi you dolt?

Do not believe leftard propaganda sheets.

Anyone who lives anywhere in the SW desert, even SW Colorado can tell you we have been getting poooounded with rain. No signs of rising water levels has to mean there is some form of sabotage