Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
The endless drought in the Southwest has become a full-blown national emergency. If Lake Mead, Lake Powell and the Colorado River keep drying up at the rate they have been, millions of Americans could soon be without water and electricity. Despite all of our advanced technology, those living in the Southwest continue to be extremely dependent on a handful of critically important water sources, and if those water sources get so low that they cannot be used we are going to have a major crisis on our hands.
The National Park Service says that Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in North America, but the truth is that vast stretches of the Southwest are now starting to resemble Death Valley.
For example, Utah has been dealing with extremely unusual heat in recent weeks and at this point nearly the entire state is officially suffering from either “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought”.
As a result, the Great Salt Lake has been shrinking and the water level has plunged to the lowest level ever recorded…
Utah’s Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year, dipping to a water level of only 4,190ft over the weekend.
The state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said the water levels have sunk past the last record set in October, which at the time had matched a 170-year record low.
DNR officials and weather experts warn that the water levels at the Great Salt Lake are expected to drop even further until fall or early winter as the West contends with an ongoing drought.
Meanwhile, water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue to fall as well.
If water levels keep sinking in the months ahead, millions of Americans living in the Southwest could soon lose their main source of electricity…
Supplies at Lake Mead and Lake Powell are dangerously low, holding just more than a quarter of their total capacities — and threatening the dams’ ability to generate electricity and provide water to its nearly 40 million users. At its highest level, in the 1980s, Lake Mead could have submerged the Empire State Building up to its top floor. Now, water levels have dropped by nearly 200 feet, or 20 stories, exposing a stark white “bathtub ring” around the rocky walls of the perimeter.
The drinking water for millions of Americans is also at risk.
Normally, the Colorado River provides drinking water for approximately 40 million people, but now it is drying up really fast.
And we aren’t talking about a crisis point that is years or even months away.
If California and six other states can’t agree to severe water reductions in less than 60 days, the U.S. government “will do it for them”…
California and six other Western states have less than 60 days to pull off a seemingly impossible feat: Cut a multi-way deal to dramatically reduce their consumption of water from the dangerously low Colorado River.
If they don’t, the federal government will do it for them.
Needless to say, the endless drought is also having a massive impact on agriculture.
Normally Kansas grows more wheat than any other state, but this year fields all over western Kansas are in really bad condition…
This time of year, the wheat growing in this part of western Kansas should be thigh-high and lush green.
But as a months-long drought continues to parch the region, many fields tell a different story.
“There’s nothing out there. It’s dead,” farmer Vance Ehmke said, surveying a wheat field near his land in Lane County. “It’s just ankle-high straw.”
Most of us don’t think much about where our food comes from, but the truth is that if farmers don’t grow it we don’t get to eat.
And right now many wheat fields in western Kansas “look like barren wastelands”…
Across western Kansas, many fields planted with wheat months ago now look like barren wastelands. The gaping spaces between rows of brown, shriveled plants reveal hardened dirt that’s scarred with deep cracks from baking in the sun.
Of all the years for drought to hit western Kansas wheat farmers, it couldn’t have come at a worse time.
There was a period of time last century when we witnessed similar things.
The Dust Bowl days of the 1930s are a very dark chapter in American history, and now those conditions are returning.
In recent years, giant dust storms have become quite common in states such as Arizona and New Mexico, but now they are starting to happen in states as far north as Iowa…
Iowa’s News Now Meteorologists Nick Stewart and Rebecca Kopelman captured an impressive view from a haboob in northwest Iowa Thursday night.
A haboob is an intense dust storm. One hit near Little Rock, Iowa Thursday night bringing 70 mile per hour winds and zero visibility.
Normally it is very rare for such a storm to ever happen in Iowa, but thanks to the endless drought there is a tremendous amount of dust that can now be picked up and blown around…
Although not impossible to see in Iowa, they are rather uncommon. However, severe to extreme drought in Nebraska, South Dakota, and far western Iowa left a lot of dry soils to be kicked up by Thursday’s intense winds.
For years, I warned that Dust Bowl conditions would return, and now it has happened.
We are being told that the Southwest is in the midst of the worst “megadrought” in 1,200 years, and there is no end in sight.
So there will be more water restrictions.
And unless something changes, electricity generation in the Southwest will become a major issue.
But I am most concerned about the impact that this drought will have on ranchers and farmers.
So much of our food is normally grown in the Southwest, but without sufficient water that simply is not going to be possible.
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Haboob? Uh, no. We already have a word for that in English. Can you imagine? It’s “dust storm”. Somehow, about fifteen years ago, all the talking heads on the Arizona news stations suddenly decided “haboob” was the new way to call a dust storm. Boobs gotta ‘boob.
Haboob is the Mooslim word for “bra”.
“Haboobs, will travel. ” read the card of a woman…
Nuthin’ new under the sun there.
The Anasazi (old ones) left 1200 years ago, abandoning Mesa Verde and dozens of other cliff dwellings
because drought is natural in the southwest. They became the nomadic Apache and Kiowa.
Humans are VERY adaptable when the climate changes. We always have been. Someone should
tell Klaus and the rest of the climate NAZI scammers.
Snyder, the Absolute Ruler Of Doom Bullshit, sucks DDD.
Amount of time ol’ Stucky …. or, YOU …. should worry about running out of water in America ——–> 0.00000000000002 seconds.
That long?
Construction in Vegas is going gangbusters………….
Loan defaults in the trillions are coming…
I once read that there was a years long drought similar to the dust bowl in the 1850s, and when researchers looked into it they found evidence of a cycle of drought about every 80 years.
I guess we are at the end of a ten year reprieve.
I’m suddenly thinking we should sell up and move to the South, while there’s still a market in AZ…
To many people living in the desert. What could happen?
Good, fuck em. How do they like their pools, lawns and palm trees now… Scumbags…
I have no issues with the game of golf. I have big issues with the construction of beautiful green golf courses in the middle of the friggin’ desert.
Who would’ve thought living in the middle of a desert would have such consequences? So deserts are dry? Next thing you’ll have me believe is that Florida has hurricanes and California has earthquakes.
It’s global warming. The desert is turning into desert.
you would think glow-bull warming would turn the desert into a lush jungle.
It will the Sahara.
Glad I live in an area that is white. Sometimes I think we get too much rain. I water the gardens maybe a couple times a week while mother nature handles the rest.
We seem to have got our year’s quota of rain in the spring and now we need to wait until the next fiscal year before we can apply for more rain.
On the bright side, the 1300ft drive I just redid will have plenty of time to pack down dry.
Droughts are fake news
You must be Putin it right up some dudes ass.
HAHAHAHA!
Our pathetic resident troll furiously yanking his micropenis
thinking it matters here. Even the decorous ladies are laughing!
LOLOLOLLLLL!
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Tug away little manlet!
I have to question that our area in the SC Lowcountry is in a long term drought. We’ve received 11+” of rain in the last month, verified both by our WiFi weather station and a passive gauge.
When we installed backup well (110′ deep) last August, groundwater perked to 12′ below ground surface.
The Kansas and Missouri rivers are at full capacity here. But the evil libtards in California and Colorado are gonna use those big tunnel making machines planning to bore drain holes underneath all the way to Colorado River Basin I fear. To stupid to devise the plan themselves (they won’t even trade a slurpee for a 1oz Canadian gold coin) so Im sure they are taking their orders from Klaus.
No matter how serious this is as long as they keep the grass green in their yards and on golf courses I’m sure it will all work out just fine.
Don’t wanna https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/ on it, but WHEN is someone from .gov gonna say that THIS Drought is ‘Man-Made’?
probably SOON, there will be a collective gasp, and at the very least, MORE people will “Master The Possibilities”?
Wasn’t Henry Kissinger recently warning about weapons worse than nukes?
You could post something?
undercooked pinto beans and cheap beer
Sam Kinison’s take on the problem:
😂 Last i paid attention the ‘Pole Shifting’ was accelerating. Not strictly a concern for boy brandons’ buddies. Anymore?
Of course, NEVER a concern for kamala…
“4 point stance, it’s how I roll!”
I always wait for additional markings to some day show up on such maps for “wetter than normal” all the way to “exceptionally wet”.
Then the sliver of white (i.e. “average rainfall”) area will become almost invisible.
To the author Michael Snyder,
Your introductory quote:
“The endless drought in the Southwest has become a full-blown national emergency. If Lake Mead, Lake Powell and the Colorado River keep drying up at the rate they have been, millions of Americans “could soon” be without water and electricity.”
Guess what? That day is already here. We are about to see a mass exodus out of the American southwest that will dwarf the Biblical Exodus of the two million – plus ancient Israelites fleeing Egypt.
It’s happening now!
Mr. Snyder, why don’t you do your research and write about the current Exodus from the American Southwest into the Pacific Northwest and inland states. The rats are abandoning ship …
My old man grew up in the Dust Bowl. Said only thing that saved them were SNAP cards. As if.
When he was 12 he was driving a tractor for 12 hours a night for like a dime. To, you know, keep from starving.
The current citizens of the US really have no idea what hardship is. It isn’t cutting back from 12 cable channels to 11, or for one less latte a week, or for having to deprive little 200 pound Annabelle of her ballet class.
“little 200 pound Annabelle”? no need to even ‘visualize’ in Your head. ALL around.
The parents basically bear sole responsibility. Processed garbage passed off as FOOD?
NOT Helping. At All.
P.S. don’t forget to get ’em all ‘immunized’ according to schedule. It’s the patriotic thing to do!
Deserts can only support a finite amount of people, even with modern technology.