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    Post Lake Mead, like the rest of the West, is in drought mode...

    Lake Mead, like the rest of the West, is in drought mode...

    With Hoover Dam's Lake Mead at a historic low water level, here are some facts about the reservoir that is crucial to the water supply of 25 million people


    https://twitter.com/i/status/1407855993594155011



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    If they could properly manage their water resources they wouldn't have a problem.
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    Snowfall is going to change every year. Being dependent has to be lived with or fixed. Desalination plants need to be built or they need to stop expanding farming and the population of the areas effected. Rainfall needs to be collected and used.

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    Mismanagement of the Colorado River is the problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    Mismanagement of the Colorado River is the problem.
    Please explain with some evidence.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sunsettommy View Post
    Please explain with some evidence.
    The states which the Colorado River runs through made an agreement decades ago on how much water they were able to take from the river. The problem is that they dramatically overestimated how much water the river would provide.

    It is not an issue of climate change or global warming. If you disagree, counter it with factual evidence and not opinion.

    https://www.npr.org/2015/06/25/41743...is-in-the-west


    In 1922, seven Western states — Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and California — drew up an agreement on how to divide the waters of the Colorado River. But there was one big problem with the plan: They overestimated how much water the river could provide.
    As a result, each state was promised more water than actually exists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    If they could properly manage their water resources they wouldn't have a problem.
    Agree and has anyone thought about the fact that millions of people have moved to the this region in past 20 years and that it simply cant support that kind of population. Perhaps is time to move back to Michigan, Indiana, IL, Wisconsin, MN, Ohio, New York etc.. you know what they all have???? hmmmm
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    Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Ackbar View Post
    Agree and has anyone thought about the fact that millions of people have moved to the this region in past 20 years and that it simply cant support that kind of population. Perhaps is time to move back to Michigan, Indiana, IL, Wisconsin, MN, Ohio, New York etc.. you know what they all have???? hmmmm

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Well…. Not *ichigan!!!


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    Global Warming

    Lake Mead Low Water Levels: Overuse, Not Climate Change

    August 24th, 2022 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

    Excerpt:

    In today’s news is yet another article claiming the record-low water levels in Lake Mead (a manmade water reservoir) are due to human-caused climate change. In fact, to make the problem even more sinister, the Mafia is also part of the story:


    Climate change is uncovering gruesome mafia secrets in this Las Vegas lake


    While it is true that recent years have seen somewhat less water available from the Colorado River basin watershed (which supplies 97% of Lake Mead’s water), this is after years of above-average water inflow from mountain snowpack. Those decadal time-scale changes are mostly the result of stronger El Nino years (more mountain snows) giving way to stronger La Nina years (less snow).
    The result is record-low water levels:

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    Increased water use is the main cause.
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