Guest Post by Kathleene Parker
Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction of their intended size, national news media is reporting that the American Southwest is in the worst 20-year drought in 1,200 years.
Yet, no one asked why President Biden is hellbent on increasing immigration – which has exploded the U.S. population by an average approaching 30 million a decade over the last three decades – when he can’t ensure adequate water for those here now. The Southwest is the fastest growing region of ours, the third most populated nation and one of the world’s fastest growing developed nations – something else never reported.
There are roughly 200 reservoirs along the length of the Colorado River – the primary water source for at least 45 million people in the Colorado River Basin and beyond – that were thought to ensure a 50-year water supply in drought. Yet, by the early 2000s, that 50-year supply was sucked dry!
At Lake Mead, the water level recently fell below the trigger point for the first-ever federal water emergency. That will mean mandatory water cutoffs, delivering a body blow to the Southwest’s economy and drying up farmland needed to feed the nation’s exploding population. But even that might not stop a collapse of the Colorado River system, a vast network of diversion projects and reservoirs stretching from Wyoming to the Mexican border. Meaning, reservoirs might run dry and diversions might no longer take water into cities of millions!
Today’s Phoenix, Arizona, was so named when settlers in the 19th century realized that they were building on the ruins of some long-ago civilization – that of the Hohokam – and named their new settlement after the mythical bird that arises from the ashes of another.
The Four Corner states – Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – today are dotted with the ruins of the mysterious cliff dwellings and towns of the ancestral Puebloans – the Hohokam, the Anasazi and the Mimbres – who were forced into what we call the Great Abandonment, during the prolonged drought of the late 1200s though the mid-1300s. Hundreds of thousands of people fled what had been relative paradises in Colorado’s Montezuma Valley and on the once-verdant Mesa Verde, in the Gila Mountains of New Mexico and on the high uplands of Arizona, relocating to areas, mostly along the Rio Grande, with somewhat dependable water.
Lake Mead, the second largest reservoir in North America, is now 35 percent “full,” but since the bottom 20 percent is useless sludge, that means nearly empty, just as the Scripps Institute of Oceanography warned would happen in the 2020s. In California, some reservoirs can no longer generate hydropower, and Lake Powell, just upstream from Lake Mead and the largest reservoir in North America, also flirts with being empty. Yet, Big Media never ask if Biden grasps:
- That this might not be drought, but merely a return to far-drier norms than 1960 to 1995, the wettest time in the Southwest in 2000 years.
- That there is not “always ‘new’ water” to be found or some miraculous technofix to save us – although, admittedly, more people mean more sewage effluent to process for drinking. Yum!
- That the current drought might pale in comparison with what climate change might bring.
In 1922, the Colorado River Basin states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California met near Santa Fe to legally divide, or allocate, the Colorado River. But the resulting Colorado River Compact began with an “Oops!” of staggering proportions, as 16-million acre feet were divvied up, even though the river usually carries only 13 m.a.f. (An acre foot is the amount of water it takes to cover an acre of ground with a foot of water.)
That didn’t matter in a Southwest that at the time supported under 5 million people. But, if immigration continues at the astronomical rates of recent decades, or even increases, the Southwest could see its population double, even as flows on the Colorado will likely average a paltry 7 m.a.f. a year, maybe even as low as 5 m.a.f.
So, twice the people, half the water.
Will that bring our own Great Abandonment, an exodus of 45 million people trying to flee anywhere other than a drought-and-climate-change seared Southwest?
Are you even aware, Mr. Biden, of that possibility?
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When you consider that most of the political leadership that manages to get elected are classless clowns and morons it’s no wonder ALL the chickens are coming home to roost. Few are focusing on the real problems of this nation and it is so bad that the legislation that clowngress is trying to pass to fix it is 70% smoke and mirrors designed to pad their cribs at home. This nation lost countless people to opioid drugs and the media is relatively quiet but when a convicted felon and fentanyl user gets roughed up the media and the far left’s brown shirts go on a binge of destruction that would make the Storm Abteilung that brought Hitler to power happy.
The railroads are almost dead and can’t live without congressional handouts; bridges across the entire nation are almost falling down in place; the electric grid is steps away from crashing with a large collection of bird killing windmills failing as their replacement; the roads are crumbling daily……I could go on so it’s not just water in the Southwest. Everything that our parents and grandparents built when they built this nation is worn out and the only thing we can do is snivel and whine about it.
It’s time to clean out the POLITICIANS across the board and elect leaders that will not pander to whiners but lead us where we need to go……….
Nobody worth a shit wants the job anymore. Only unemployable grifters & sociopaths get into politics for the last 30 years… at least. Look what the fuck we have in DC.
When I was getting out of Kali, after my short stay, had my eye on a dandy place about 1/2 hour outside of Prescott, AZ. I was doing the computer dating thing back then too & was writing to a nice lady who worked for some dept. that dealt with water. She said that in 10 years there would be a serious problem. That was about 10 years ago. The state (at the time) was confiscating water from farmer’s & rancher’s wells to put into the system that fed the Phoenix area. Golf courses & fine lawns are more important than irrigation or livestock, doncha know.
Hey Lee Harvey, you’re absolutely right about the worthless politicos. Not so much me thinks about the water thingy. You must have been looking at Chino/Paulden area or Dewey/Humbolt. Chino will probably become a dust bowl as the water table drops, on the other side of the mountain not so much.
Az is probably the easiest place in the world to get your own well. You pay a 200$ permit fee, file a site plan, then its between you and your wallet, the well driller, and nature. If you hit blue gold you can use as much as you want without it being the states business. In short if you got the juice then you can get the squeeze.
It was just outside of Skull Valley. I didn’t see the water confiscation with my own eyes, just read about it in various places. It was a very real thing apparently in 2006 or 2007.
Skull valley is nice down to Yarnell. Once you get towards Congress it is too much desert and decay, to close to the nuke plant as well. Would love to have you as a neighbor in the dirty Verde.
I think it would have been great to live there too, but that dream is long gone. Was accepted to Yavapai Co. College for the gunsmithing program. Met with the instructors over T-giving vacation & it seemed a perfect fit for everyone. Done in a year & a 1/2 cuz all the prereqs were taken care of in Kali & transferable. Was planning on a small pole building for the shop & only doing work for friends or jobs I wanted to do. Maybe get some of Ruger’s warranty jobs if they paid well enough. The housing crash started just as it was time to sell the Kali house & got stuck there for another year & 1/2. By then everything was upside down in Kali, but not yet in AZ, & it just couldn’t happen. Plan B fell thru too. I guess Odin was trying to tell me something. Better than lightning bolts.
We’re gonna need a deeper well. That or rout out the one million illegals living in Maricopa county. Vegas and LA also has millions. They must all go back. This would relieve a lot of the pressure on water supplies.
Oh and stop giving Nestlee and Bill Gates billions of gallons of water for less than a penny a gallon.
It would also relieve pressure on hospitals, schools and welfare.
I’m old now (71). One of the core lessons to be gained with age is:
It’s the maintenance that will get you.
Building all kinds of crap when you are young and growing is great, like borrowing money on your card to get cool stuff. Then you discover that the maintenance will cost more than the construction, same as with expenses with the card.
Some of the best alt sites seem to miss the geoengineering, aka weather warfare, aka solar radiation management that has been going on for over 6 decades. Weather manipulation is the crown jewel of the military industrial complex. It can attack its own city, states or another country and no one can point them. People want to know why they would do this.
The agendas can be debated. We are not in their planning rooms. The fact that it is happening should not be. Those white streaks you see above you in the sky are nano particulates of aluminum, barium and other toxic items. Once you investigate and conclude that this is happening, you no longer wonder why drought stricken areas have forest fires that are worse than ever before. They can make massive catastrophic flooding in one area and close the faucet in another. The best site I know is geoengineeringwatch.org with Dane Wigington.
Control the weather and you’ll control the food. Control food and you control populations. .No food, no people.
Bravo, TheAssegai!
Life, weather, history are all a cycle…Fourth Turning. Why did the Anasazi people leave the SW, drought on a major scale confirmed by tree ring data. Refuse to learn from history and you’re damned to repeat it.
It was always about the money Doc.
This is all the future Aztlan, anyhow, so let Mexico worry about it.
They can desalinate the Gulf of California, paid for by a modest tax on the donkey show industry.
Lake Mead currently shows about a 150′ ‘bathtub ring’ around it of white calcium indicating the decline in water level. Somewhere around 90% of Las Vegas’ water comes from the Lake. The Lake water is fed to Las Vegas through three ‘straws’ which draw water to a water treatment plant and then distribution. The original straw is approximately 20′ below the current water level. A third straw was completed in 2015 and is some 200+’ below current water level. The third straw was a $800,000,000 engineering marvel completed in 2015. It’s 20 foot in diameter and 3 miles long and was drilled with a 600′ long boring machine. Because the straw is 600′ below the surface, all precision survey work was accomplished the old fashion way, GPS did not work below grade. The parent company of the Las Vegas company that engineered and constructed the straw was Italian.
I’ve been a hyro-turbine designer for 40 years, design five units for Hoover Dam. Unit’s N1-4 in the mid 80’s, A8 in 2012. The letters indicated which power house, A fo AZ, N for NV.
When the model testing was wrapping up,for the A8 unit and the guys from the Dam were witnessing the final testing, I ask John the government engineer, why the design space for A8 was the same as I used in the 80’s. No answer, but when iit was time to do field test, they were already out the guarantee operating range, heads on the Units were too low.
They’re getting close too having to shut down the powerhouse.
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TIMES ARE GOING TO FUN.
Thanks for that info.
Let them drink the nation’s liberal mandated taxpayer funded green solar and wind powered electricity. Y’all 45 million plus liberals do at least one smart thing in your whole entire revolting perverted lives before y’all leave your wonderful Blue Areas: tie your liberal politicians to ant hills in the Sun so Conservative Southerners don’t have to . And don’t come to the South because we have government mandated swamps all over the place that produce swarms of blood sucking parasites that spread hundreds of awful diseases , and so TPTB can spray us with poisons “for the children” all just like the liberal WDC watermelon Environmental Communist want (may they die of cancer ASAP and suffer in Hell forever) .
Exactly. The South is full of disgusting insects, awful humidity… and millions of rednecks.
The crisp, clean and enlightened air of Colorado is a much better fit.
Fuck you and your enlightened air you arrogant prick.
Why the down votes?
The air throughout Colorado has the stench of pot, crack, homeless people’s urine and excrement, and worst of all- the putrid stench of Liberalism.
Eye rolling. Denver and The Springs are increasingly smog laden and through the years have become increasingly threadbare looking.
Put Zuckerberg, Musk and Pichai on it.
Mountains, clouds and rivers bow down! All-American tech will save the day.
Why do these writers continue to ask questions of VP Biden when we all know he cannot even tell the Navy Corpsman his diaper is full. I really feel sorry for the Corpsmen who serve this man.
Desert. Deserted.
Delaware has plenty of water.
Sam Kinison where are you?