The Real Reason Lake Mead is Drying Up
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- Lake Mead is one of the largest Resoivwar in The United States, and supplies water to more than 25 million people. As a result of many long term droughts throughout the Southwestern part of America, Lake Mead stands at just 28% of its total capacity. This has created an array of different problems for this entire region, and has even impacted the Hoover Dam's ability to operate its hydropower turbines.
Lake Mead's low water levels have caused states such as California and Arizona to cut back on their water consumption which has affected many different industries. As a result, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation has announced two different projects that intend to replenish Lake Mead's water supplies. These plans are focused on diverting water from the Flaming George Resoivwar into Lake Mead. While these plans aim to put an end to the ongoing water crisis, we have yet to see their true impact as they were announced in mid 2022. Therefore, can Lake Mead actually be saved, and can its decline actually be reversed?
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the awnser is simple the hoover dam is the problem time to knock it down and let it run free once again!
@@billybobbob3003 , nope, I have a better, idea, or, more accurately, a whole set of ideas, first of all, let the people of the country follow the Book of 2 Chronicles 7:14 in their lives, second, run the moronic politicians out of office that are in the states that are affected, third, get rid of the political activists that are on the left, right, middle, and fringe that are in that area of the country, and elsewhere, if it is needed, fourth, get rid of the other evildoers that are in the area, fifth make massive canals that connect from between Baja California Norte and Sonora in Mexico to the Colorado River, sixth, widen the Colorado River until you get to the Grand Canyon National Park, as well as other protected areas, seventh, make a brand new branch of the Colorado River that can carry ships and that is also away from the protected parks that were mentioned previously, eighth, widen the Snake River, ninth, make a second set of canals that are also big and wide where the Raft River is in Idaho, tenth, let it connect to the Great Salt Lake, that is, if that area is not protected as a national park, or a park of any sort, eleventh, run a third set of wide canals that connects to the Strawberry Reservoir in Utah, provided that place is not a protected area of any sort, twelfth, widen the Strawberry and Duchesne Rivers, thirteenth, widen the Green River that is in Utah, fourteenth, link the Duchesne and Blacks Fork Rivers together, fifteenth, link the Green, Gros Ventre, and Bighorn Rivers together, sixteenth, link the Green and North Platte Rivers together, seventeenth, link the Mississippi River to Lake Superior, eighteenth, widen and deepen any and all rivers that are linked together so that big ships can travel practically all across the country, which also has the better added benefit of making commerce easier, nineteenth, make a whole bunch of desalinization plants throughout those rivers, twentieth, make a whole bunch of water pumping facilities that can get water from the seas into the rivers, twenty-first, link Puget Sound to the Snake River via some wide canals, twenty-second, learn desert reclamation techniques, as well as forms of such technology, from China and Israel, and then apply it to the desert areas of the USA, twenty-third, refill the old dry lakes all throughout the West, twenty-fourth, link them all together via a series of wide canals, twenty-fifth, link said old lakes to the Snake, Colorado, and other rivers, twenty-sixth, widen the canals that link the Great Lakes together, twenty-seventh, let the Saint Lawrence River be widened after the new wider canals link up with it, and thus help out the other rivers more, and twenty-eighth, as well as lastly, link them to the Snake, Colorado, and other Rivers, then widen those rivers, unless they are in protected areas, otherwise make new river paths, while simultaneously keeping the old ones, and then let more inland water based shipping and transportation occur. Yes, it will cost a lot of money, but I am convinced that this is the only long-term solution that will work, and anyone that says otherwise needs to be considered as a terrorist and tried accordingly, for it is wrong to let people thirst to death in their lives, period, full stop.
Looks like mother nature controls 100% of Lake Mead.
Because Republicans are in charge? All these states are ran by Republicans cept Cali.
@@bradforward850 nope
I find it very interesting that so many blame the problem on "the drought". The problem is that this is a desert region that never has had the ability to supply the kind of uncontrolled growth and usage driven by huge population and manufacturing growth in the region. You can't produce enough water in the desert to feed 30 million people. No matter what the Federal government tries to do, Lake Mead and Lake Powell are going to dry up and blow away. If you live in the desert, you'd better learn how to live without green lawns.
CA and it's enviro crazies are the problem. Start studying the topic and you will find out.
We could start by not watering golf courses. We have about 3000 of them in AZ. There was a drought here in 1980s. No watering grass or washing the car. Water is underground in the desert, but that is drying up now too. Water tables getting low and water getting very hard - over 120Grain hardness in buckeye.
Aye, rich people sports like Golf that uses shit tons of water for zero reason other than "Beauty" need to be cut off from water useage. End of story.
@@Kajichuu Nothing against golfers, but they take up too much land and water. There are lots of other hobbies to do while getting liquored up.
So now they want to pump water from the Missisippi river to make up the difference so now we can screw up 2 major rivers instead of just 1
You mention drought over and over. In point of fact, from the Wasatch mountains west to the Pacific is more or less desert. Tens of millions have moved to these areas in the last few decades. As well, there is a huge agriculture industry in particular in the San Juaquin valley of California. Talking about drought is merely deflecting from the structural problem of providing enough water for the entire region. Drought for desert areas is normal is it not?
Do you believe 📰🗞️ 📺 what they are saying about the 🌊🌊 Problem!!????
Nothing like good old fashion common sense. I agree
@@D-Nice358 not after I read the sources in the beginning of the video
@Andrew Somehow people don’t understand common sense. That more and more people have moved to the lower basin states, that agriculture production has increased dramatically and that the natural water supply cannot sustain the current amount of usage. So basically they are depleting the resource and putting the blame on drought. Classic haha
Northern California isn't a desert, we just have a wet and dry season and sell all our water south.
Crazy what's happening. Seems like growing vast amounts of crops in areas that don't naturally support them is a bad idea.
Have you flown into L. A. or San Diego? The millions of acres of grass lawns suck up incredible volumes of water.l
Like mexico?
Building a city 100% dependent on a dam that is dependent on the down flow from other cities is even more stupid. Did the people that though it was a good idea not think that the cities up river would not expand and use more water. This was a disaster waiting to happen before the the first worker showed up to start on the doomed project. I am surprised it lasted this long. But, I have a plan that I know will succeed. I am building the Death Valley Hotel and petting zoo. I know that will succeed.
IKR? What could possibly go wrong?
Also, look up "Saudi Arabia alfalfa crops for cattle in Arizona."
How do you like eating food? California drives the whole national economy...
Growing crops in the middle of a desert. Brilliant. Just brilliant
One thing not said was, Hoover Dam was set up and made for 2 reasons, Water and electrical power! But, it was made to handle up to 14 million people! It's a lot higher than that now, the population when it was finished I believe was around 6-7 million! And it's in the middle of the desert, nearly all the water has to come from the mountains of Colorado! Lake Mead will never be like it was again....
Adding to that over 30 million visiting each year in Las Vegas doesn’t help..
It is destined to fail... Too many people, too little rain = dust bowl...
@@rogerdean5313 Las Vegas recycles almost 60 percent of their water. They use the least of the water in lake mead. Agriculture in Arizona consumes most of the water, then California after that.
Yea, I live out here in Vegas and the amount of water we blatantly waste out here is staggering. All the Landscaping and homes that have huge lawns, all the golf courses?
All I know is that there is going to be a MAJOR humanitarian crisis in about 20 or 30 years at the rate were going.
That is BILLIONS of dollars the Government is going to have to pay to people for the property they bought in good faith. The thought of the chaos seriously scares the shit out of me.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
California has the Pacific!!! Desalination plants could fix this plus when it rains in Comifornia they don't manage it they just
just waste it by dumping the water to the Pacific I've seen the Los Angeles River full going to the sea
they dump a huge amount out the Sacremento river for an invasive variety of fish
California grabbed 800,000 over 3 years…now 65% full….AZ also topped off a reservoir…hence, a bigger buffer by big bucks. There’s no water shortage…just a mismanagement by all parties.
Although construction of the three dams in the Eastside Reservoir project finished in 1999, the process of filling the 4,500-acre reservoir site was completed in early 2002.
The Diamond Valley Lake is the largest reservoir in Southern California and has a capacity to hold around 800,000 acre-feet (260 billion gallons) of water. At a cost of $1.9bn, the Diamond Valley Lake almost doubled the storage capacity for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).
The main aim of the project was to help the MWD meet its seasonal, drought and emergency needs. When full, the reservoir is capable of supplying most of southern California with six months worth of water in an emergency.
The project’s three dams, the longest of which extends more than two miles, required an embankment volume of more than 84 million cubic metres of earth and rock. The process of filling the reservoir, which inundated 4,500 acres of land, began in November 1999 and took around three years. It was filled using an inlet / outlet tower with a peak rate filling capacity of 1,000 cubic feet per second.
The water from the Colorado River Aqueduct is delivered to reservoir forebay through the San Diego Canal from where it is pumped to the Diamond Valley Lake reservoir.
Finally someone knowledgeable here
The water at the headwaters of the Colorado river are being diverted through underground tunnels to metro Denver area thus eliminating a huge amount of water to enter the Colorado river. Now you know.
your insane
We shovel the snow, we should reap some benfits from it.
Nevada uses below its allotment, so it's not the problem, but, 74% of Arizona's water goes to agriculture, and 80% of California's water is used for agriculture. California's also fifth in cattle raising. Maybe growing so much food in a desert is not a good idea?
So what there not supposed to grow food or have animal ..get real
@@susanr1903 We grow tomatoes in the winter in Minnesota. You'll be fine.
Here in Nevada, most of our allotment goes to Las Vegas, where we have one of the best waste water treatment systems in the world. Our sewage gets treated to be bottle water clean before going back into the lake, where we can reuse it again. California flushes Lake Mead water into the Pacific where we lose that water from the system.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
@@ninajefferson4018 Intake Pipe 3 has already been finished. No one is underground, it's already done. It also didn't take 20 years, the Lake has been dropping for a long time.
Liked the video, some details not mentioned are 10% of water use in Cali if residential. Some where north of 70% is agriculture,
but a large portion of that is crops being shipped overseas. One crop in particular is not even for humans, its alfalfa hay for cows
on the order of 20 THOUSAND TONS per year to japan and china EACH and every year. residential pays up to 100x as much as the farmers do for water.
Good post, with some real details...
and you are a special kind. You forgot cali dumped millions of gallons of water for saving the fish. More than the farmers need.
So stop eating red meat. The environment will thank you.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
So your figure are really off. 10 % goes to people, 40% to farmers so you can eat and 50% goes to the enviro nuts and they flush it all into the ocean. Yes, they flush 50% of their water into the ocean for a fish.
The drought in the Southwest is only one part of the problem. Add all of the golf courses in Clark county, the large water displays out in front of the casino's on the strip and all of the backyard swimming pools in Vegas and you're drawing more water than gets replenished by natural means
Alfalfa, almonds and I believe another crop is grown in California. These three alone consume extreme amounts of water to grow. Alfalfa alone is mostly exported from what I have read. All I know is here in Las Vegas, we have a population of a little over 2 million. It's too much. Housing development projects continue to forego even though I'm not surprised by that. We have mostly turned our lawns from grass to desert plants with rocks. You are not only encouraged to do so, but they will pay you if you switch. Also, there have been restrictions in place to reduce pool sizes with new homes that are developed are to begin in the near future. Nevada is number one when it comes to water conservation. You can also look that up. The major problem here is population and growing crops. When this agreement was made, it wasn't made with this amount of population in mind. I personally don't expect California to get it's act together in this.
Not to mention that alfalfa gets shipped to CHINA!
Cotton consumes a lot of water as well. I have no idea why that is even allowed, it is obviously not sustainable even without climate change and drought. They'd have eventually hit a wall with that, but I think it's about maximising profits and then not caring when shit hits the fan for everyone else.
The lawns and pools don't actually hit nearly as heavy as agriculture though, and then there are tons of golf courses in those areas sucking up massive amounts of water per day. The amount of water people use is sustainable in that area, but the amount of water of golf courses and other industry AND use for normal people, is not.
Avocados? Melons?
Another big user of water in California is the bottled water industry. That water is exported out of california as well. In my opinion bottled is a convenience that we can do without, too much pollution and I constantly see 1/2 bottles of water thrown out.
The growing amount of illegals in CA is also a problem but no one wants to address this. Calculate the water usage for the additional millions flowing in.
I like to see the information and data about this prolonged drought. I know several States including Colorado that I live in that is not so. year after year our snow pack has been over 100% And all of our ski resorts and Mountain areas and our last couple of Summers have been wetter than ever. July and August are usually dry months in Colorado but it rains three or four days out of the week All Summer Long. so I would like to see this data about their reduction of snow and rainfall. I think the main problem is is lack of management and misuse of the water as well as growing populations and growing Farms in areas that are taxing the water supply and using more water than ever before and they're trying to blame it on a drought rather than mismanagement and population growth. at Las Vegas and parts of the Southwest keep on growing they have to get their water somewhere and I think this is the biggest problem on keeping Water and Lake Mead
Your snow pack on the east side of the Rockies may be at 100% or greater. We need the west side of the Rockies to get snow, as that is where our water comes from for Lake Mead.
@@rangel6242 that is the west side of the Continental Divide not the east side Wolf Creek Pass and that whole area there and up north flows into the Colorado River that flows not too far from Durango and Silverton and other such places. Plus their Summers have been wetter than usual as well. I think it's just population growth he isn't up to resources more and the people in charge of conserving the water don't want to take the blame would rather try to blame Mother Nature
Well in Arizona there's a Saudi Arabia company that is literally draining the groundwater to irrigate alfalfa fields so their horses can be fed in the Middle East. That groundwater for the past 117 years was sustaining small towns and now it's drying up. In fact Arizona is leasing the land to saudia Arabia at $25 an acre with unlimited water use. Btw, alfalfa is a very thirsty product and is not even for human consumption. Once again, other countries are benefiting off the suffering of US citizens in their tax paying dollars.
@@rba5567
- *"Once again, other countries are benefiting off the suffering of US citizens in their tax paying dollars."*
The US government in a nutshell.
Gee a couple of years with abundant precipitation really defines climate change, right? Uh, no. Climate change is a macro weather pattern, not just the State of Colorado. It affects the entire world, not just one state.
Hover dam was originally built with 5 hydro electric turbines and now has 17 do the math. The lakes below lake Meade are at full pool from all of this hydro power water release.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
The river below the dam has ALWAYS been at full level. Increasing the number of turbines does not change the amount of water "used", in fact, the beauty of hydroelectric is that it does not USE UP any water.
Annnnnd how much is now running full course through Mexico to the ocean ?
Hoover
Mead
@@acehaas9086 dont think you get it mate..
It isn't "failing." Its supply is being cut off at the peak of a drought
It's falling because consumption stays the same or increases without replenishment, which is totally irresponsible...there is a BIG difference
From the Great Salt Lake to the Pacific is a desert. Drought is the natural condition of a desert is it not? Lake Powell and Mead would not exist without water from the Rockies. We are seeing the very predictable result of tens of millions moving to the desert regions of the south west.
@@scottw5315 And they can stay the L out there and deal with their decision!
@@scottw5315 So true everyone talks about a drought but the population of the area has increased 100 times over in the past 10 years...
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
Since there are so many people and states involved they should all collaborate and share the cost of building a desalination plant or two on the Pacific.
Besides the farming aspect, these plants could also be used in creating more man made lakes and possibly allow more towns, resorts and cities to be
built in the desert areas.
80% of consumption is agricultural which can only afford water at about $100/AF. Desalination and transportation is north of $4,000 AF. Desal is a partial solution to urban needs only
The colorado flows were studied for a mere 30 years before dams were built and allocation promises were made. Later studies have revealed that those thirty years were the wettest of the 1100 years prior.
The river is over allocated.
The local native American tribe was promised 52-53 precent of the water . However, the government changed it so they barely get anything
Typical double-speak IE: lies,,, of our worthless/corrupt government !!! good point gallardo420s
They wanted whiskey instead.
@@pilbomags488 it's called Fire Water
@Phil Failla you cared enough to be here and even took the time to read and write about it.
Mexico was cut off too.
Mismanagement of water resources and countless fisheries conservation requiring free flowing water fed to rivers in central Calif. is the cause of the present condition of Lake Mead. Water conservation should of started decades ago. The brains to be now want to pull water from other areas yet do near to zero to curb the practices that have drained this valuable water reservoir.
Thanks Obama.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
The other states need to look at Las Vegas' water conservation efforts, which started over 20 years ago! It would be stunning how much water would be saved.
@Out of the Box Models Water that used to be moved south by canals to water crops is now being allowed to flow out to sea.
nonsense--not one drop of water from lake mead goes to central valley--the calif aqueduct feeds(lake shasta)central valley---owens valley water goes to LA--- colorado river water goes to imperial valley numskull--lake mead will be full in '23 more on
What if they doubled the consumption of Lake Mead's water through the expansion of agricultural production in the South West. Would that mean the 'drought' was twice as bad?
"The problem is a drought in the southwest"
No, the problem is they are using that one water source to irrigate farming fields in multiple desert area's all along the length of the river.
Forcing agriculture usage out of formerly unfarmable lands. Its asinine.
Absolutely my thoughts!
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
there were more farms in those area's 30+ years ago vs now. A lot of those farms have been bought and cities have expanded over them. it's people. When that region goes from approx,. 12 million to 34 million in 30 years.. and that's the main water source.. yeah it's a problem
Come to Arizona right now and tell me we're in a drought. Itll be hard to say because of how wet and lush it is. It's been raining nonstop, everyday since mid June. Every, single, day. Not exaggerating. Last year, same thing. Over average rain. My boss went to Vegas, and said that the amount of rain the were receiving was amazing (can't speak entirely for them, it very well could be really dry). The Colorado is based on snowfall, which has indeed been less in the state of Colorado. However, it wouldn't be nearly this bad if mostly agriculture cut back a ton. It's a desert climate, not meant for a large consumption of water, even by proper sources. I see your point about the drought, and I agree. It's the massive influx if people we've had here, not necessarily the dry conditions.
You kinda of right. Research the Delta smelt in CA and you will lose your mind. Also, research lawsuits blocking reservoirs in CA and turning down state of the art de Sal plants.
It's funny how California has so much water problems, yet it has so much coast line.
@Bread Sandwich Well they not short of taxation. Heck they even pay people to be homeless, so I don't think money is that much an issue with them.
Asking King Gavin to cut his state's consumption? The nerve! His majesty is not bound by rules concerning finite resources the way the rest of us are.
The drought unlocking the dark dark side of Lake Mead. Lake Mead have a ghost town name St Thomas, Nevada. The LVPD ( Las Vegas Police Department or Vegas Police Department or VPD ) still finding bodies in Lake Mead thank to the drought. Lake Mead has bodies because during the mobs tied to the Vegas casinos. The mobs dumped the bodies in Lake Mead w \ out people knowing it.
who cares?
Dam
Hoover
Damn Hoover arg arg arg arg arg
the problems start at the moapa valley . that is basically where the demand for the river really starts . the growth all along the river in the last 50 years is incredible . through overton and then to lake mead . then you have vegas which is growing like crazy . then you have boulder city which is growing . then carry on down the colorado to the mohave valley , all farmland . then carry on down to parker , farmland all the way to palo verde . then carry on down the river to yuma . then the poop really hits the fan . the colorado cannot handle all of this demand .
they can get it back when ever or what ever they want to do--the lake will be full in '23 more on
this video made me smile............ a lot , hoping for acceleration
Tough times coming for southern California.
Good. They deserve the consequences of their voting record.
The water resources in the US southwest were over-allocated during a period of exceptionally high precipitation and have never been reallocated to account for this. That's why Lake Meade is falling. As noted by others much of the water from this reservoir goes to watering crops that feed much of the US, so the problem isn't as simple as "California uses too much water". That has to be amortised appropriately over the entire US.
It's simple though, California uses more water than Lake Mead intakes... thus the water levels are dropping.
Once they drop too low, Lake Mead can not output through the Hoover Dam (Vegas still fine though) so at that point California will Have to face the reality.
Doesn't matter what the water is used for, the dam intake will dictate whether water can even reach the CA intake..
How about a desalinization ( SP ? ) plant ?
Why doesn't Ca. just build a bunch of desalination plants and concentrate on mismanaging those ?
It's simple if you take more water out than goes in then you will see water drop. Another thing is the Grand Canyon used to be full of water in the past. This should have been a sign that historically less water is going into the rivers over time
The Grand Canyon was never full of water. That's not how canyons are formed. The Colorado has certainly been bigger with more volume passing downstream before irrigation and drought, but it's never been as large as the canyon itself or even remotely close to even a single percentage point as big.
Simple check of geological data show your are wrong about the Grand Canyon. I sense bit of denial. You know that current aridification of west side of North America is due man made climate change, know and predicted last 40 to 50 years.
@@HVM_fi That's prairie fertilizer. Monster droughts are spotted throughout the west's history. None of the climate models pass basic tests. They can't even "predict" the past rolled back. CO2 climate change is political economics, and voodoo science.
@@Redbeardian People forget there are several dams on this river before it even flows out of the state of Colorado. Lake Powell and Lake Mead are far downriver.
@@HVM_fi Thought all the man made climate change was causing the seas to rise? You are aware the the rivers are connected to the seas yes?
Just a question, given the extensive network of water transport which provides a greater exposed water surface area, wouldn’t evaporation be exacerbated in this hot desert area?
I’m wondering why no mention of atmospheric water generators for home use in Las Vegas was made in this content?
When the Colorado river pact was signed a 100years ago this year (coincidentally?), they based their numbers and allocations and all sums on a particularly wet year. One person spoke out about this and was called a fool. He predicted this exact thing.
hey more on-- what you going to say when all the lakes are full in '23?
I mean it is not like we are going to run out of water. Desalination is a thing, and the world's surface is mostly water. With the ice caps melting, we should get drinking! :D
Power. It takes a lot of power to desalinate water. Where will the power come from? That is why construction of desalination plants also require the construction of new power plant. Also desalinated water is about 5x more expensive than regular water.
@@nickl5658 nuclear power is most efficient. Plus, expense or no, we aren't running out of water.
@@nickl5658 solar power
Have you read about all the environmental problems and all the toxic shit it creates as well? All the harm it will do to the ozone and ecosystems in the ocean? It will be creating another HUGE PROBLEM!
@@poopedonyourchest799 would be nice in some areas, but nuclear is far more efficient, and it is much cleaner than fossil fuels. Either way though, we will not run out of water as a species with the right tech.
Time for California to use ocean water that of course has to have salt removed. Many other countries do this. Expensive? Yes but it will be worth it.
Exactly . everyone screams it's too
expensive and there's the problem with the left over salt .
However , once the water really stops flowing and people get thirsty , the cost and the waste will instantly become irrelevant .
people will pay any amount of money to obtain drinkable water .
California a state that has an infrastructure to support 19 million people but has a population of 44 million. Let's talk about the Auburn Dam Project and all of the other water storage projects that were cancelled due to enviromentalist.
It's going to be so odd in the future when lake mead doesn't exist and the station is abandoned and the area crumbles
Very nice analysis. Thank you.
They have seen this coming for many years! Do we not have the technology to take out the salt from the Pacific Ocean? Surely the cost of desalination would not be near as painful as having "no" water!!!! If it is as bad as they say, that seems to be the choice in the near future!!!!!!
Carlsbad opened a desalination plant a couple years ago. Santa Barbara reopened their plant that was closed years ago. I can see other cities doing the same, but their has been pushback from the environmentalists on that as well. So we shall see.
Google search says approximately 17,000 desalination plants around the world. Florida has 140 desalination plants.... I'm guessing they work and are affordable. Especially considering California charges higher sales tax than Florida. Also collects income tax that Florida does not.
@@bfree6197 Florida taxes more items, so who has higher tax is decantable. Property taxes also are higher in Fla.
@@inyobill the total tax burden is 11% in California, while it's 6.56% in Florida... according to Google
@@inyobill I also Googled annual tax revenues for each state. Florida is 178.2 Billion and California is 248.19 Billion... the highest in the nation.
So yes, California is collecting more money than ANY other State.
So a lake that was never supposed to be a lake and should’ve have ever been a lake is drying up? Wow! Shocking!
California needs to start swapping to desert landscaping. Nevada has been water smart for 40 years.
The biggest problem is alfalfa growing in California farms in desert climate,. And that's not the worst of it. It doesn't stay in this country in fact another country that was trying to grow it in a desert climate stopped it because of their water issues, and hence moved the farming to California and then ship the alfalfa out of the state, out of our country back to the country that banned growing it there. So the United States and California do not get anything out of wasting billions of gallons of this decaying resource. Talk about getting screwed over and we allowed it to happen.
Yep you are rite.Growing alfalfa in a desert is ridiculous.
Right on Chad, but do you think anybody is going to listen to the average people who are suppose to run the country. Maybe we should start a riot.
Don’t forget legislation in California to save non native fish. They release a stupid amount of water that is NOT helping!
The whole state of California is idiotic and stupid
Exactly! WTH are we growing alfalfa to ship overseas? Screw them! Let them grow it themselves.
Lake meads decline is mostly due to usage, not weather or climate.
climate has a lot to do with it. for example Texas 2 years ago Frozen water ice snow! But a lot of reasons they never put in fact. with all the wild fires. they used lots of water to put them out. and without a good northern snow fall in years. and the states population, farming it goes quick.
One thing the Government of Victoria, Australia did was to put in water restrictions to limit our water consumption to 150 litres per person, per day. Not sure if American's are willing to do it or if it would be enough.
I guess I got bored and checked out before "the real reason Lake Mead is drying up" was revealed in the last minute of the video that just re-re-repeated literally every real reason literally everyone already knows. Top notch info video.
Why they don’t place restrictions on pools and other non essential recreational items such as golf courses is beyond me. Cut the water to California for agricultural only and 10% cut for residents. Start desalination projects
Bcoz it's against our rights
In CA each time they try to build a new reservoir it's blocked by a lawsuit. The enviro nuts just blocked a de Sal plant in Huntington Beach to save microorganisms. And each year up north they flush 50% of their fresh water into the ocean to save a fish. The environmental nuts control CA and decide how much water you get.
Is having drinking water a right or a privilege? (According to this Supreme Court a privilege) Food that is dependent on the water? Your pool is a privilege not a right. You don’t need a pool to survive.
In Las Vegas, they have placed restriction on pool sizes for new homes that are in development. I don't remember what month, or if next year when that begins. California grows Almonds and Alfalfa. Both consume extreme amounts of water. I believe there is a third crop that does too, but can't remember. Anyways, Alfalfa is mostly exported from what I have read.
@@G34RH34D pools don't consume extreme amounts of water once filled.... besides, it's not Las Vegas using the most water, it's clearly CA and AZ.
California has Ocean Front property, why don't they use that water? Do the filtering to get the salt water out, heck, they could help refill Lake Mead.
You can only desolate only so much water and then you start taking the ocean out of balance make a new problem
@@gavinchurch6109 This is too FUNNY, the Ice Caps are still melting.
@@brokendownoldman9547 no you cannot just filter sea water at the level needed to help southern california. Desalination plants cause a desert effect when they are in use. Creating a ecological deadzone for the sea life. 90% of fish eaten by humans live around or having breeding grounds close to the shore. Meaning you would destroy wildlife, livelyhoods and a huge foodsource for it. Not a solution.
@@RK-cj4oc This is too FUNNY, the Ice Caps are still melting.
@@brokendownoldman9547 yeah, thats not a arguement for the points i made.
The salt levels around the desalination plant will rise and kill wildlife. Ice caps or no.
If you cant make proper points just be silent.
As a 55-year old, native Californian I have witnessed the sick joke that the issue of "the drought" has been and has continued to be.
Even in this video which is focused chiefly on Lake Mead, it should be reasonably clear that the matter of water in the Southwestern states is complex and varied.
Drought is one factor, but at least here in California, I can attest that it is not, nor has it been a singular drought taking place during my lifetime. Instead, it is a repeated series of cycles, more or less 7 years in length, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less, in which 5 years are dry/drought conditions and 2 or so years will be wet and cold producing both rain and snowpack that becomes run-off in the Springtime. This cycle typically corresponds with the Pacific weather effects known as El Nino/La Nina. La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean lead to low rainfall seasons and "drought" years, while El Nino brings the rainy years that frequently bail out most of California until the next cycle. It is really a case of nothing new under the Sun when it comes to the issue of drought (again, I am referencing California, and acknowledge that the case may be different in other states).
Some other issues that may be unclear from this video are that California is a very large state, and not all of its water is provided by the Colorado River system. Generally, rural Southern California East of Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego receive their primary water supplies from the Colorado River/Lake Mead. Los Angeles and Orange County get supplemental supplies from the project. One example would be back in 2015 when that "drought" died a quiet media death (the LA Times buried the story beneath the fold of the California Section apparently considering the approval of Lyft and Uber to pick up passengers at LAX a bigger story for the Main Front Page Headline, and also the top half of the California Section than the end of the drought) due to the reserves for 2015 and 2016 being secured by the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains contributing additional acre-feet of water to the Colorado River, not to mention producing flooding in Texas along the Red River Valley earlier in the Spring of that year.
Most of the water in Los Angeles comes from the groundwater and snowmelt in the Owens Valley along the Eastern portion of the Sierra Mountains, and the California Aqueduct from Northern California via the Central Valley.
San Francisco gets (or steals depending on one's perspective) its primary water from the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Other parts of Northern and Central California depend on local reservoirs and/or groundwater.
Population growth has definitely increased demand and strained the systems from all sources, but such growth can be tracked based on housing starts and other building permits, so the bigger culprit is the piss-poor civic planning of the last 40-45 years on the part of elected officials and city managers. Planning for development without planning for additional water supplies to correspond to that growth has proved more than simply dumb, it has brought us to the precipice of disaster. The watershed around Modesto (the heart of the almond-growing country), for example, only has the capacity to collect about 55% of its average annual rainfall. This is a problem that has been known for decades, yet no one with the authority to do anything about it has had the courage to get a project up and running for that purpose.
Lake Mead, it should be remembered, is a man-made lake. It is not drought alone that is causing the receding water level. Without Hoover Dam, there wouldn't be any water level at all, since desert-scape is the natural condition of the location where the lake is situated, so it is a bit silly that we even suggest drought is the primary factor as if the weather is really any different than it was when the Dam was constructed and the Lake was first filled/created.
This is really about human decisions and action...Or lack thereof.
I live in Africa... We have 7 year cycles too , sometimes a bit longer sometimes not... How odd, almost as if there is this other invisible nearby thing that is fucking with our climate and hindering our efforts in stopping it from changing so consistently. Dam annoying if you ask me. (Pun intended there...) 😉
@@IIIRotor I like your pun!
At least you may have efforts. Here we have gone from a people who identified problems and acted to solve them to, in only a few generations, a people whose only “effort” seems to be to whine about problems and act as though they solve themselves.
Climate, to my perception, divides into atmospheric, ground/soil, and water issues. While not completely unrelated to one another, it just seems to me that a reasonable study of of physical geographic history shows that we have greater impacts on soil and water than on the atmosphere. It is largely hubris that we assume we are so impactful on the atmosphere as to cause climate change in the first place, and even greater (worse?) hubris to assume we can “reverse” it.
There is an old television series on the National Geographic channel called, “How The Earth Was Made” that at one point describes a long epoch in which there was more than 4 times the CO2 in the atmosphere as now, and that acid rain occurred daily all around the globe, but here is the punchline-It was several tens of millions of years BEFORE the existence of humans!
In all likelihood, the invisible thing fucking with our climate is our present lack of understanding how one or more natural processes work.
As to the ground and water, I think it is pretty clear we have more direct impacts, and can and should work at making better choices than we currently make, most especially the choice that happens here in California-The fundamental failure to match resource planning with usage planning.
@@vincentgarzoli3197 I was almost going to say it looked to me more like a Managerial Snafu, than an environmental one.
If you look at California's data it had it's wettest period ever starting around the time of settlement and lasting around 100 years. What we're seeing now is a return to the normal conditions, not a drought. Additionally please remember that most of California is not a desert.
What this video did not mention was where the water actually comes from. The Colorado River, starts in Rocky Mountain National Park, on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. And it is dependent on snow fall, which has been below average for some time now. Also, the Green River out of Wyoming, which starts around the town of Pinedale, which is also a snow dependent river. And, snow fall there has been down also for some time. If Lake Mead is to be saved, major water saving/conservation needs to be implemented, now. Not in 2023. I'm just glad I don't live in Southern California. But thats what you get when you farm in the desert.
Good info but we need farming. AG and people get 50% of the water as a total. CA only needs about 14 storms each year to be completely free of the CO River. However, they flush 50% of their water up north into the ocean for a fish. On top of that lawsuits have blocked new storage facilities for 40 years.
The entire San Joaquin/Sacramento Valley is a desert yet you aren't complaining about the food we grow for your consumption.
Yeah the body disposal industry has also been affected by the falling of the water.
not as much of a problem with the mafia gone.
YOU DINNA SEE NAATHING, SO YOU STOPPA LUKING AROUNNA DA LAKE, OR YOU A BE NEXTA TAKA RIDA INNA DA TRUNKA DA BOSSE'S A CAR !!!
@@jeromewiegand339 am fae Scotland least try talk and spell it the right why foos yae doo's fit's the reply.
Nah, just gotta go deeper... Just wait, there's gonna be more... ☠️
@@pete5668 Mafia is still here, they just went corporate.
Let's see ,NO RAIN , in a drout for more than 20 years, continue expanding CITIES IN THE DESERT that might be part of the problem.
Who knew that building a lake in a desert wouldn't work out? There hasn't been a drought the whole time since the lake was formed.
Year 2018-2021, Lake Mead water receded 25 yards. From 2021-2022, water receded 300 yards. And yes, 18 million LA County residents use water from this lake.
the lake bed is V-shaped, its going to recede faster...
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
Per the California Dept of Water Resources, 10% of Calif water goes to cities and industry, 40% to agriculture, and 50% to the environment (it runs out to the sea). Who knows what will happen in the next couple of years with our drought. Will it continue, or will it be reversed - no one knows and the computer models, as mentioned, have to be revised constantly. California's coastal cities, where most of the state population is, may continue to build desalination plants and pull water from the Pacific Ocean as has occurred in Santa Barbara and Carlsbad in the last few years. It seems that the inland valleys, where California agriculture primarily is, will have a harder and harder time finding water for crops. Another part of the problem has been the Democratically controlled state legislature and recent governors who refuse to invest in more water storage by building additional reservoirs or dams further north in the state. This has been an ongoing nod to environmentalists who block any type of expansion of water storage as well as the more "Progressive" crowd that run state gov't who want to control essential resources.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
Finally, an educated person here. You are spot on sir
They waste half the supply. LMMFAO !
Um....the Hoover Dam has NOT dropped in it's height above sea level. It's at the same height it's always been.
Yeah there were some pretty silly editing errors in the video. They left out several states that receive water from the Colorado river basin, too. The first map showing all the Upper and Lower basin states was incomplete. Also, Mexico receives a portion of the Lower Basin allotment, so a cut from the California/Arizona/Nevada half of the river.
Sounds like Nevada needs to re negotiate the waters right asap. And California needs to conserve the water 💦 better.
As a Nevadan, I'd like to see California cut off from the Lake completely. We share it with Arizona, that's who we should be sharing the water with, not California. They've got an ocean they can desalinate. All the supposedly intelligent silicon valley tech guys should be able to figure out a solution. They always claim how much they care about the environment, right? Well, I say they should practice what they preach and start conserving water. Nevada is quite good at it! We learned a long time ago how to make do with very little water. We treat and reuse our waste water and are able to reclaim upwards of 40% of all the water we use, one of the best conservation systems in the world. California needs to catch up, they should have done so decades ago.
@@Lusa_Iceheart No argument’s here what’s so ever. I agree.
So the state furthest from the reservoir has the most rights to it? Also I didn't hear anything about Mexico and how they've been basically cut off from the supply of a river that runs into it.
California wants to preach to the rest of the union about climate change when they are the leader in it. California needs to lead by example and stop causing climate change by moving water
These rights where negotiated with a long time ago. It was mainly based on population and who would pay most for infrastructure projects on the river.
Time's are changing. We have been using fossil fuels for a long time too.
Arizona is the first to be cut off and they are a big abuser
Who gives a shit about Mexico
Maybe we shouldn't have California leech off from the Colorado River. They need to invest desalination plants in the state. If the UAE can do it, certainly another of the richest countries of the world (USA) can do so too.
How does that effect saline content of the water where they harvest. Will they use the salt in batteries or return to ocean and possibly cause issues down stream.
It will never happen. The green agenda and the environmentalist will never let it happen. In England, they completed a desalination plant 12 years ago. It has yet to produce 1 ounce of fresh water. The green agenda and the environmentalists stopped it in its tracks. Desalination takes a tremendous amount of power, and produces salt and other byproducts which the environmentalist hate.
@@Pat_Scratches ideally they should use the salt for something useful.
I hate seeing this constantly online.
No, desalination plants are not a solution. Desalination cause a desert effect in the water area that the salt gets dropped at. Causing mass death in the coastal areas. Which is were almost 90% of actually eaten fish live. Killing off a huge source of food, livelyhood and wildlife is not a solution. The UAE uses desalination plants not that often. And imports/recycles alot more.
You cant use the massive amounts of salt. Because its not competitvly price wise with conventional salt.
@@RK-cj4oc welp, I guess that's that. What do you propose?
There are a few new dams upriver on the Colorado basin that were not there a few years ago.so not as much runoff makes its way south west.Dont really hear any complaints from Lake Havasu
7 states use it for drinking water, in Las Vegas alone they have 50 golf courses, I did the math and just in golf courses alone Vegas draws 12,500,000,000 gallons a year just for golf. That is even before anybody drinks any water. I know alot of people play golf , but in a time of crisis it is very excessive use of water.
Not to mention Steve Winn's fountains! Idk, maybe those have been shut down now...
All that water for a stupid sport.. 🤦♂️
That's inaccurate. Golf courses in Las Vegas use low-consumption grass species and employ high percentages of native flora whenever possible. It's required by law. In fact, new golf course within the last ten years must be built with entirely native flora. Las Vegas also has one of the best waste water treatment systems in the world, we recycle upwards of 40% of all of our sewage, clean as bottled water. Every house and commercial building in Las Vegas is required by law to use water conservation faucets, low usage toilets and flash flood water is collected in an extensive series of canals and drainage pipelines so it can be put to use. We don't waste a damn drop of water, which is why we can afford the occasional luxury property such as world class resorts, which provide tax dollars that in turn fund the entire state. Las Vegas has grown to it's present size with Nevadas meager allocation and we've always maintained our growth without exceeding that allocation. Efficiency, innovation and skillful resource management have allowed us to prosper in the desert. It is California that has failed in all of these aspects and it is California to which blame for the collapsing Lake levels is to fall. Decades of moronic policy and failure to properly manage limited resources while expending those limited resources on a cash-crop agriculture industry. Water intensive crops such as tree nuts and alfalfa for cattle feed sold as exports. These should not be grown in the Mojave desert, yet the idiots in California seem to think that was a wise environmental decision. Lake Mead is paying the price.
Well if California owns most of it and won't conserve then they should brunt the costs of a revamping in order to preserve what is left of mead and powell
Its NOT about the drought. Droughts come and go in this region always has, always will. The problem is that Vegas, Phx and southern Cal get a lot of it's water and energy from Lake Mead. And in the last 20 years the population of those area's has gone nuts, when the population in 1990 in those metro regions totaled approx. 14.2 million and today that total is approx 33.7 million.. it's not about drought, it's about people. The Rocky Mountain range still gets plenty of snow every winter and the deserts get rain every spring-fall. It's a population problem nothing more, nothing less. AZ and Southern Cal has always been prime farming area's so don't go blaming farming cause farming isn't nearly as rich as it was. Half of what is now Phx metro were all farms in 1990 I know cause I lived there. The sports complexes where AZ Cardinals and Coyotes play and all those strip malls, restaurants, hotels and housing communities were all cattle, cotton and oranges and other things crops. Same for the east valley, and south of Phx.
Farming is an issue. Because they take the lion’s share of the water. But industries are just as bad a problem. And, yeah, to many people. The solution is large scale sea water salt removal. No private business can be left in control of this and US citizen would rather die than let “socialism” happens.
@@TheSiriusEnigma No gov has the money for it, no liberal will allow nuclear power to do it, and the graft and grift will be in the hundreds of billions over cost and late arrival. DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AND YOUR WATER PRICES WILL QUADRUPLE AND THEN SOME
@@shakdidagalimal have you looked at the middle east? They do exactly that. Yeah, that problem has been solved in other countries. And yes, the local gov pays for it. Billions? So, one less cruiser for the navy on the next budget. Think about it.
@@TheSiriusEnigma brine
Once a cost effective desalination process is invented. This innovation will make some BILLIONAIRES.. no doubt. Especially if they invent such a desalination process that also can use the sea salt somehow for food etc.
If it has little to no impact on water ecosystems.. omg this will be brilliant.
Why is salination not incorporated, in times of shortage? Cruise ships use it for their drinking water.
The problem with lake Mead is the location of a lake in a desert climate. A large body of water was never meant to be there. Therefore a lake in a dry area creates a large evaporation pool. The lake should be located further upstream, in a wetter area.
Absolutely the main factor yes, I can’t believe people are still expecting water to form in a desert, especially when the whole world is suffering drought conditions. Things will only get worse.
@@Nettsinthewoods We're not in Minnesota. It rained a lot this year. The above commenter from South Carolina said they've gotten so much rain, he's sick of it.
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL lol!! Glad someone got some. PLEASE send some to London U.K. we are burned to a crisp - and I’m not exaggerating…
@@Nettsinthewoods Do you believe it's anthropogenic climate change? If so, do you also believe in climate bioengineering; cloud seeding, for example?
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL I get nervous about any bioengineering. If we take water from one place - no matter how we do it - we deprive another area of water. Every time beans are shipped to the U.K. from Kenya, water is shipped away from an artificially watered land to a land of water. Cloud seeding seems to me to be a form of water grab. Dams are a water grab. Whatever we do, we mess up something that is essential to us for survival and use it for other purposes such as hydro electric power to keep our homes cool and keep the lights on.
I've always hated California with a passion. But knowing they own so much of the water rights.. now it makes more sense why our lake is drying up. Thanks California 🤬
Yup, it's always been the case. They have awful resource management over there while here in Las Vegas we have the some of the best waste water treatment in the world. We recycle our sewage and get as much use out of every drop we can. California dumps Lake Mead water into the Pacific, where we lose that water from the Colorado River Basin network. They also grow water hungry cash-crops like tree nuts and alfalfa (for livestock) for export over seas. Not even using it for domestic cattle feed, nope sale over seas. Why are they trying to grow water intensive crops in the Mojave desert? So much for them caring about the environment, just a state full of hypocrites.
This video is a lie!
The reason it's draining
is so the 15,000 foot
tunnel being build "under
Lake Mead, costing 1.5
billion dollars, is completed.
And the masses of people
working underground do
not drown. It's not caused
by an alleged drought.
[whodidn'tknowthat]
Interesting video 👍
The bottom line, is that Lake Mead capacity was not designed to support the massive millions of people and agriculture in the desert of the Southwest region. Water rights should be reserved for human consumption, and flow from upstream down. California is last in line, period.
woah they made hoover dam from fallout new vegas into a real thing 🤯
Bro Hoover dam was constructed in the 1930’s 😂
Lake Mead drying up which it most likely will because nobody is putting pressure on those really using the water can cause a total collapse of the USA. Before they restrict almond production and artificial lakes for real estate developers they will "take measures" by limiting private individuals usage because the dollar rules almighty before everything will crash into **** causing the housing bubble to collapse, electricity prices to go up due to it being treated as a speculative commodity, food prices go up even more than what we have seen the last couple of years, other states will have to take in many newcomers, creating pressure on resources, escalating conflicts etc. Fun times.
well said, its a greed and corrupt management problem mostly, the rest being a complicit lying media.
You're correct in stating this is not just a regional issue. The entire country will be affected if the dam nears deadpool.
@@rjnordin no we won’t because we ain’t bailing you out not many of you have money to relocate y’all enjoyed the nice weather and good vibes enjoy it while it lasts y’all are fucked I live in the Midwest we good
@@charleshocqii4301 I live in Wisconsin. Trust me, if they hit a full blown water crisis it will affect the entire country.
@@rjnordin I promise you no it won’t
The Southwest and Pacific States should all require that public green spaces and all public streets instal bioswales to collect rainwater and recharge their aquifers. Our impervious surfaces are drying us up more than we can bear
Arizona does that already, almost all rain water will flow into a greenbelt and not the sewer
@@stinkincooldesigns8469 This is awesome, props to AZ
Conversely in australia under la nina we have had several good years since our ten year drought at the start of the millenia, looks like your only chance of rain is for us to go back into drought. The question is is has the pendulum swung too far is el nino a thing of the past.
Why does no one ever talk about the fact that there are many more people living along the Colorado river than when the hoover damn was built and filled. There is more stress on the river itself than just the supply of water for the western states. Many many things are contributing to the decline of lake Mead. Please lets hear a proper full report if at all possible.
Maybe California needs to start looking into filtering the salt out of the ocean since they are really close to it.
It is not a drought, it is the end of an unusually rainy period.
This been a problem for years and haven't done anything about it
Lake Meads failure? What a novel headline. It’s takes the culprits right out of the equation.
Yeah, really weird thumbnail text. As if the Lake itself is causing its own demise.
Please don't show video of Lake Powell when you're talking about Lake Mead. They are suffering the same problems but they are NOT the same lake. Lake Powell is approximately 200 miles ENE of Lake Mead. Your credibility is at stake.
Do you mean when he’s talking about lake Powell and how the Colorado system works?
@@bofty No. The video is titled "Why is Lake Mead Drying Up" and much of the shown footage is of Lake Powell. If you're going to report, report the facts, don't show video of a different lake. If they want credibility, they have to be accurate - don't show video of the wrong lake.
It’s sad watching overpopulation play out. Maybe try making less humans.
7,991,612,128
World population
No such thing and if you are that concerned about it how about you depopulate yourself?
Exactly people don’t realize there is too many damn people in the world
@@poopedonyourchest799
Population Milestone Year Reached
1 Billion 1804
2 Billion 1927
3 Billion 1960
4 Billion 1974
5 Billion 1987
6 Billion 1998
7 Billion 2010
8 Billion 2022
9 Billion 2037
10 Billion 2058
Not one word or reference to the negotiated discharge to feed the delta at the Gulf of California. We must supply 1.5 million acre feet annually. Plus more during surplus years. I can find no mention of reduced flow or input to our reservoirs having any effect on that 1.5 million acre feet.
So, while our reservoirs run dry, the mandatory release of fresh water is emptying into the Gulf of California.
They need to make a Turbine that Spits water back into the Lake and have one going down the River at the same time.
The physics of a gravity powered turbine doesn't work like that. The energy to push the water back up into the lake would be the same power generated by that water coming down in the first place. You'd just negate the whole point of generating power in the first place and actually just lose a bit of net power.
@@Lusa_Iceheart One town was using Solar during the day to charge batteries while the Hydro was working for the town.During the Night,the Solar batteries pumped water back into their lake.
@@warrendrew1664 That might work for a small town, but Hoover Dam generates a lot more power. You'd have to double it's output with solar panels to make the power to pump water back up stream, and even then it wouldn't be enough since the Dam runs day and night. We also don't have the battery technology to properly store that level of power from a solar farm. Going thro that much effort, we might as well just shut off the Dam during the day and rely solely on the giant solar farm we'd have to build. It's just not even a remotely plausible solution.
Just to think that water level was over that dam
Fracking the hell out of Colorado using 60,000 Gallons of water per Well Pad 🤷♀️
Why don’t they take water from where Hoover dam pushes the water out and not from Lake Mead so the lake would never dry up
Time to get serious about evaporation prevention. Cover the lake in solar panels.
Whats the consumption rate of the combined Hooverdam Hydroplant ?
Also, California has a population of 5 million in 1930 compared to 75 million now.
No shit why can't anyone see this
Their population is around 40 million. Your point is still valid.
I'm sure the blatant and obvious waste of water that we use 24/7/365, while not having any new water coming in as much has a large hand in it going down so much.
It's not drying up, it's going down because of usage. Drying up makes it sound like it's environmental, and it's not, it's going down, because of the high demand in the area.
Keep building those golf courses in the desert and green lawns in the suburbs, boys.
What are the current conditions? It has been two months from the last update
Yet the population is a major problem!!
No mention of Utah... an upper basin state that wastes the most Colorado river water than any of the 7 states that depend on it. Looking at just Lake Mead's Water usage is absolutely ludicrous if no water is flowing downstream....
Let's just keep building those apartments, houses and condos. Gotta make developers and politicians rich.
Just don't understand how expensive it would be to install huge steel buildings in the shape of a Bundt cake with a hole in the middle to catch the fresh water as it evaporates from the salt water. Then you just pump water into the reservoir and have a transparent roof that cones to a point over the center collection hole directing the evaporated water to the fresh water supply. All you would need is the power of the sun and possibly nothing more if you can run the pumps on solar. It is like my Jr High school science project at a much larger scale. I took a rusty coffee can and weighted a clean glass in the center. I filled with water below the rim of the glass. Put a piece of saran wrap over the top and places a marble in the center to cone down to the collection glass. I put dirt, whatever in the outside water. After blasting it with a heating lamp, the glass filled up, crystal clear, ph checked out. No weird flavor. Got an A.
Can someone put the timestamp where he points to “the real reason” the lake is drying up? I don’t want to watch the whole thing. Thanks.
I am curious the use of the water by these states where does the treated waste water go? Putting the back the treated waste water back into the lake mead would lessen the problem than it is today. I would assume the treated waster water would be sent back into the lake? Not into the ocean.
Las Vegas treats about 225k acre feet of water each year. All indoor water use is treated and sent back to the lake. (This only applies to Vegas)