A grave water shortage resulting from the overuse of the main water supply and global warming reducing the inflow of new water, has led to cutbacks in the amount of water being allocated to the states that depend on the Colorado River.
"I was a little kid the first time we were here when they were building that down. My father, he just loved this country down here and he would come and we would watch the dam being built. The concrete was a constant pour," she said. That means no water passing beyond the manmade barrier, flowing through the Grand Canyon and re-filling lake Meade, the other great lake on the Colorado waterway – the one held in place by the Hoover Dam.
"Those water levels are so low that we're approaching deadpool, which is the point at which water can't be delivered off the reservoir." "Those industries have been around for a long time and of course, it takes a lot of water to grow food and fibre. Sarah says the original allocation of water rights has resulted in too much demand, taking water out of the river basin, while climate change has drastically reduced the supply of water going into the system.
"The ground, the area, the region is hotter and drier and so the ground absorbs more snow melt than it used to." We have driven down from the original beach level to where Mike is parked up. He told us that where we are now used to be underwater. "But now that we are getting back to normal levels or rainfall – and below normal, because this region has been in a drought for I don’t know how many years – but it doesn’t allow the lake to recharge.""When you consider the size of the basin – there's the upper basin of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah, and the lower basin states of Nevada, Arizona and California – even though we had a decent monsoon season this summer, it didn’t make a difference.
It might rise up again with the right snow conditions, but as Sarah Porter points out, the rise in global temperatures means more snow is evaporating, not melting into river basins. This year, the allocation cut in Arizona was just over 20%. Cities are spending billions on infrastructure to conserve and recycle water: a nuclear power plant on the outskirts of Phoenix is cooled by waste water from the sewage system."I don't think it's reasonable for us to expect that the Colorado River is going to recover and produce the amount of water that water users have been expecting over the last few decades," she said.
Any news about our diaspora ?
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If they can make it rain in the middle east , why is there drought happening in western countries? 🤔
If you’ve ever played golf you’ll know where all the water has gone. A golf course has no place in a desert.
And don’t forget to inform the lemmings, Seán, the Democrats lost the house.
Keep pushing the narrative like the good WEF propaganda machine you are🙄