The top of the first water intake pipe at Lake Mead is now visible as the lake’s plummeting water level hit a new record low.
“It’s official – the top of Intake No. 1 is now visible and the low lake level pumping station is now operational,” tweeted Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA).
After nearly half a century, the first intake is out of service and can no longer draw water. Water levels at the lake hit record lows this week, falling to 1,056 feet. Luckily, SNWA has two other intakes at much lower levels that are still operational.
“There was no impact to operation’s ability to deliver water,” Bronson Mack, public outreach officer SNWA, told CNN. “Customers didn’t notice anything. It was a seamless transition,” he said while referring to the switch of intake number 2.
Water flowing down the Colorado River supplies Lake Mead and Powell. The river system supports 40 million people across seven Western states and Mexico.
But as the Western half of the US faces one of the worst megadroughts in 1,200 years, water officials, such as Tom Buschatzke, Arizona’s director of water resources, recently warned of an impending water crisis that could affect the drinking water for millions of people.
“I never thought this day would come this quickly … But I think we always knew that this day was potentially out there,” he said.
Meanwhile, in Southern California, water officials declared a water shortage emergency for the first time, according to KTLA in Los Angeles. New restrictions for Ventura and San Bernardino counties go into effect on June 1 and restrict people’s ability to outdoor watering.
Social media users responded in shock to Lake Mead’s intake pipe above the surface.
“Holy Christ, that’s bad,” one person said, quoting SNWA’s tweet.
Water wars in the West?
“It’s time to pull California’s straws from the Colorado River,” said one person.
The good news is Lake Mead has two other water inlets at lower depths to draw from, though levels are dropping fast as there is no sign the megadrought will be abating anytime soon.
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Imagine if we looked to the future like we used to for centuries and saw the need for more waterin places that lots of people were going to go to. Water, “climate change” and any other lib bugaboo isn’t the problem.
Leftist insanity is.
Tell your democrat congressreptile that flooding the country with beaners and Haitian water drinkers ain’t such a great idea.
“I never thought this day would come this quickly … But I think we always knew that this day was potentially out there,” he said.
Duh. They must have foreseen much lower levels based simply on the existence of the 2 lower pumping stations.
It’s not nice to fool mother nature. And clearly, God is ready to cut His lost. Timing the only unknown. To us, Not Him.
Very few are willing to perceive the despicable plans of the elites as they destroy this country; even fewer are willing to admit it: geo-engineering and HAARP weather control for instance.
Yup, “It’s official” ….. deserts are dry.
In other news, water is wet and fire will burn.
Fascinating.
I am very interested in the engineering and history of Lake Mead, and Hoover/Boulder Dam.
Did you know that the Apollo Saturn5 rocket’s power was termed in units of Hoover Dams? (82).
I am glad that the censorship piece of shit website ZeroHedge posted this article.
I enjoyed it.
CHRIST is holy…I would not be so flippant with that blasphemy…He will not be mocked.
Holy Mohammad…Holy Budda…Holy satan…a downvoter!!!
Thank you for speaking up! I guess “Zero Hedge” (the anonymous Tyler Durden …whatever) is the actual originator of what I guess he thinks is an acceptable headline.
Presumptuous of me. The reference to fooling mother nature was a reference to the well documented, and ONGOING efforts to manipulate the weather.
a great site if you are unfamiliar.
Blasphemy? “Holy Mohammad…Holy Budda…Holy satan…a downvoter!!!”…must be 2 ‘Marks’.
I don’t downvote, not sitting in the colliseum. Only upvote as a gesture of acknowledgement/applause.
I grew up in a tough blue collar Mick/Wop family (hard drinking two fisted Mick coal miners and my Wop grandfather was in the Black Hand – shot three times and killed at 34) in the 50’s & 60’s where everyone had a shot in one hand, a beer in the other, an unfiltered cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and every other sentence had some blasphemy sprinkled in it…and that was just the women!
I went to an all boy inner city high school, then the military, then war, and I remember once home on leave at dinner asking my little sister in front of my Mother and Father to “Pass the Fucking butter” and not even realizing what I had said.
So it’s not that I am a holier than thou kinda guy…actually I’m just the opposite, by habit and nature I wrestle with my rudder tongue daily. The most persistent bad habit I struggle with (there are a number) is cursing and foul language.
One evident change after my personal Road to Damascus experience in 93 is when I hear or read casual conversational blasphemy, especially to my Savior, it is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
Trust me if there ever was a foul mouth idiot with words it was me…words matter.
But for people with no road to damascus moment, it’s just a word, not blasphemy.
Amen Mark. Jesus-much more than a curse word, He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and soon returning Ruler to this Planet!!!
I’m impressed at the record-keeping for the last 1,200 years. Well done “scientists”.
Well to be honest, 1000 of those years were recorded on a rock found under a Mayan temple down there South of The Border.
But it was found by a scientist I guess, if you want to call an archaeologist a scientist?
I mean jill biden is a Doctor of sorts, if you call dissecting a sentence surgery.
If this drought stuff was anything but bullshit, we’d see a moratorium on new construction – and we’re not.
So, what is really going on?
Federal ‘judge’ ordered water released from dams (dams, plural)
https://www.reuters.com/article/salmon-endangered-idUSL2N1RG00I
Another one:
Get it yet?
Who gets driven out of business by this shit? Who gets to buy up everything for pennies on the dollar?
Who has videos of those ‘judges’ touching kids?
Electrical generation stops at 950ft. The lake is at about 1058 and is dropping about 1 1/2 ft per week. If no substantial rain this summer, no electrical generation in about 7 weeks. WOW.
Nevada will have to go back to using manual one-armed bandits. They were moar fun anyway.
Let’s Go Brandon!
You mean 70 weeks at 1 1/2 ft per week…
And what is the likelihood of no substantial rain in 70 weeks? 0%?
70 weeks????
Oh, shit! There’s something in the Bible about End Times and 70 weeks. Look it up.
J-E-S-U-S IS COMING BACK IN ABOUT 1 YEAR AND 5 MONTHS!!!
Sorry Dude, you are wrong. According to Michael Snyder’s new book “7 Year Apocalypse” the Tribulation Period starts in 2026, then Jesus returns 7 years later. You are way off.
Your math is wrong. Try 70 weeks.
Oops math was off, 70 weeks.
I still blame Biden.
Biden blames himself. See all those pictures of him on stickers pointing to gas prices saying, “I did that?”
Those Teslas running around in Musk’s giant tube under Vegas, are going to be pretty pointless soon. Hang on….I feel a tear coming………….nope.
California is already short of electric power, and it will be much worse when Diablo Canyon nuclear shuts down…
They should run out now and get a gasoline generator and as much gas as they can store.
A Model 3 will only take 17.9 hours to charge with 6kW/h gen @120 volt at 1.5 gallons gas per hour fully loaded. It will only take 26.9 gallons of gas to charge your tesla to 85% eff battery charge. Range in mile 305 miles on a full charge. accounting for eff and loss you will be able to drive 60 miles per day for 4.5 days. You only need to have 5.9 gallons per day of gasoline. Average cost of gas rounding up $5.00 per gal only $29.50 per day or $134.o per week. So you only need to maintain 6 – 5 gallon gas cans per week…. about 11.3 MPG – and that’s assuming you drive like an 85 year old man with bad eye sight. Acc./Dec., Velocity, Mass Moment of Inertia is whole other calculation which can void out the above Calcs. depends a lot on driving conditions. The above is best case.
Dont forget heat in the winter & A/C in the summer. That isn’t part of the mileage either.
Looking at the maps on the megadroughts link I remember well how dry Texas was between 2011-2014. Texas even had some very devastating wildfires during the period and people were drinking recycled pee in Wichita Falls.
In 2011 wildfires were alarming for Texans. Around 31,453 fires had burned some 4,000,000 acres or 16,190 square kilometres, with 2,947 homes, and over 2,700 other structures. 47.3% of all acreage burned in the United States in 2011 was burned in Texas.
In April 2011, several large brush fires converged on Possum Kingdom Lake west of DFW. Very dry brush and high winds fueled the fire, burning nearly 200,000 acres and over 150 homes.
I feel blessed to be surrounded by a clean supply of water.
Yea buddy,
My farm is in the Triassic Basin and wells can be iffy…have a neighbor who dug six dry holes on his property and finally gave up.
I have two wells, one is one of the shallowest best producing in the area, the other I went down 200 feet past hitting water at 300 for good storage, and I have a half acre spring fed pond.
Water is life!
https://deq.nc.gov/guide-homeowners-triassic-basins-north-carolina
We live around a 400 acre swamp, fed from springs at the base of decent size hill. It has never dried up as long as I have lived here. Swamps always get the wrap of being nasty smelly pieces of land. Swamps produce some of the cleanest and mineral rich water there is. One of the drainage points from the swamp runs through my property down to the reservoir, which is used for drinking water for a city far south of us. The environmental department classifies it as ‘AA’ quality water.
I’ve always wondered WTF with Kommiefornia. They have an entire coastline with water. Desal plants aren’t that hard to build
Yup, “It’s official” ….. deserts are dry.
In other news, water is wet and fire will burn.
Meh. Water. Who needs that?
Jesus-much more than a curse word, He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and soon returning Ruler to this Planet!!!