mclumber1 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears 'moment of reckoning' WWW.LATIMES.COM As the Colorado River water shortage worsens, major cutbacks are needed to reduce most perilous risks, a federal official tells senators. I'm a bit anxious about this situation, seeing as how I live in Las Vegas. If most of the cuts can be directed at non essential agriculture (like alfalfa and almonds) as well as other industrial and commercial users of large amounts of water, then the authorities may be able to stabilize this looming crisis. I hope this spurns more wind and solar installations, as those power sources are not dependent on a constant source of water for evaporation, like (most) natural gas power plants are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 inb4waterknife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Sorry, this calamity is bad and all, but it's going to have to get in line like the rest of calamities needing attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Just now, legend said: Sorry, this calamity is bad and all, but it's going to have to get in line like the rest of calamities needing attention. This could all be solved if every river only had a single door. 1 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 If you guys have ever done a dam tour at Hoover dam, you'd see how much the tunnel walls leak water. If they could plug those leaks, a lot of water would be saved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 11 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: If you guys have ever done a dam tour at Hoover dam, you'd see how much the tunnel walls leak water. If they could plug those leaks, a lot of water would be saved. Is this some kind of vague Trumpism reference? Because it sounds like something he would say lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Chicago woman dies after falling into the Colorado River while on a commercial river trip, NPS says WWW.CNN.COM A 47-year-old woman died Saturday after she fell in to the Colorado River, according a news release from the National Park Service. I guess the reckoning has started with the first human sacrifice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 In all seriousness, we are probably about two decades (if we're lucky!) away from a major metropolitan area in the Southwest running out of water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Arizona is a mistake. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: Arizona is a mistake. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 I’m serious guys: pump sea water to the Great Salt Lake and desalinate along the way. move over housing and land use, this is my new hobby horse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleronin Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 17 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: I’m serious guys: pump sea water to the Great Salt Lake and desalinate along the way. move over housing and land use, this is my new hobby horse! I mean the Great Salt Lake is starting to turn into a toxic wasteland, so sure, why not. I mean it to the mormons to establish their land on something that will kill them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreePi Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 36 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: In all seriousness, we are probably about two decades (if we're lucky!) away from a major metropolitan area in the Southwest running out of water. Well good news is that viable fusion energy always just happens to be two decades away! We can use all that cheap, near limitless energy for massive desalination projects! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: I’m serious guys: pump sea water to the Great Salt Lake and desalinate along the way. move over housing and land use, this is my new hobby horse! Rising sea levels problem solved. Two birds with one stone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: I’m serious guys: pump sea water to the Great Salt Lake and desalinate along the way. move over housing and land use, this is my new hobby horse! Pump sea water into some carved out chunk of no man's land Arizona. Then take a chunk of the unbearable Arizona desert, solar it up, and use that power to desalinate everything coming out of no man's land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Forget pumping and pipelines. Just have a fleet of helicopters that constantly go back and forth to the ocean and dump the water in the lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Forget pumping and pipelines. Just have a fleet of helicopters that constantly go back and forth to the ocean and dump the water in the lake. Nuke all that Mexican desert between the US and the Gulf of California and give Arizona some seaside property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Ghost_MH said: Nuke all that Mexican desert between the US and the Gulf of California and give Arizona some seaside property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 11 hours ago, silentbob said: Chicago woman dies after falling into the Colorado River while on a commercial river trip, NPS says WWW.CNN.COM A 47-year-old woman died Saturday after she fell in to the Colorado River, according a news release from the National Park Service. I guess the reckoning has started with the first human sacrifice With the topic at hand, I assumed the story was going to be “lady fell into shallow river and hit her head on a rock”. Whoops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share Posted June 23, 2022 The lake is currently dropping about a foot a week. Quote The minimum elevation to generate power at Hoover Dam is reported by BOR to be 1,050 feet, below which the reservoir is considered an “inactive pool.” Water above 1,050 feet elevation is considered “live storage” and a “dead pool” exists at 895 feet in elevation, which is the lowest water outlet at Hoover Dam. https://www.nps.gov/lake/learn/nature/storage-capacity-of-lake-mead.htm The lake is currently at ~1044 feet, so it's technically in the inactive pool stage, which means power generation is in danger of no longer being produced. I somewhat question this 1050 foot mark, as I think this would be a bigger news story right now, especially here in the Las Vegas area. Anyways, I'm really enjoying the videos coming out of this youtube channel. They do a good job documenting the actual physical effects of the lake dropping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 FINE!! I ordered The Water Knife last night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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