Guest Post by Brett Wilkins
“Today’s Colorado River projections are … a dire warning for the American West to eliminate rampant corporate water abuse before it’s too late,” said Amanda Starbuck, Food & Water Watch research director, following news the U.S. Department of the Interior ordered Arizona, Nevada and Mexico to draw less water from the river, on which 40 million people rely.
Amid extreme drought driven by the climate emergency and warnings of a possible “catastrophic collapse” of the dwindling Colorado River, the U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday announced the first-ever tier 2 shortage for the overdrawn vital waterway, triggering water use cuts in two Southwestern states and Mexico for 2023.
Based on projected water levels for 2023, the tier 2 shortage will force drought-ravaged Arizona, Nevada and Mexico to draw less from the Colorado River, upon which 40 million people in seven states and Mexico rely.
Arizona will face the biggest cut — 592,000 acre-feet, or about one-fifth of the state’s annual allocation, while an 8% reduction in Nevada is expected to have little impact in a state that recycles most of its indoor-use water and does not use its full allotment. Mexico’s allotment will be cut by approximately 7%.
The move came after Colorado River Basin states failed to meet a federal deadline at the end of Monday to come up with a plan to achieve a 15% reduction in water use, an amount scientists say is needed to prevent water stored in dangerously depleted reservoirs from dropping even further.
“Every sector in every state has a responsibility to ensure that water is used with maximum efficiency. In order to avoid a catastrophic collapse of the Colorado River System and a future of uncertainty and conflict, water use in the basin must be reduced,” Assistant U.S. Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo said in a statement.
“The Interior Department is employing prompt and responsive actions and investments to ensure the entire Colorado River Basin can function and support all who rely on it,” she added.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton said in June that in order to stabilize the Colorado River Basin, states and water districts must devise a plan by mid-August to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet of water usage by next year.
One acre-foot equals the quantity of water needed to flood one acre a foot deep — approximately 326,000 gallons. Touton warned that the federal government would intervene if states could not come up with a plan on their own.
“Instead of singing ‘Kumbaya,’ it appears they’re sharpening their knives,” Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, said of the riparian states in an interview with Marketplace.
In a separate statement, Roerink alleged that “certain Upper Basin interests are holding the Bureau of Reclamation hostage at this point. They have called the Bureau’s bluff time and again. Nothing has changed with today’s news — except for the fact that the Colorado River system keeps crashing.”
Addressing those interests within a California context, Food & Water Watch research director Amanda Starbuck decried the “massive water use of Big Ag and Big Oil.”
“By switching to renewable energy sources like solar and wind, California could save 98% of the water currently needed for its fossil fuel production,” she continued.
“And by transitioning away from industrial mega-dairies, thirsty crops like almonds and pistachios, and engaging in regenerative farming, California will gain enormous water savings that could serve small farmers and domestic households.”
“Today’s Colorado River projections are undoubtedly a dire warning for the American West to eliminate rampant corporate water abuse before it’s too late,” Starbuck added.
Historically, the Colorado River ran 1,450 miles from its headwaters high in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado into Utah, through the Grand Canyon in Arizona and along Nevada and California’s southeastern borders before flowing into the northernmost tip of the Gulf of California in Mexico.
An oasis in the desert that surrounds it for much of its course, the river sustained numerous Indigenous peoples both before and after the genocidal colonization of the Southwest, and since the U.S. conquered the region from Mexico it has been a lifeline for American settlers.
Around a century ago, Western states began dividing the Colorado’s water among them, building massive dams and channeling water hundreds of miles to sprawling farms on previously desert-like lands and to rapidly expanding arid cities including Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego and Las Vegas.
Under the Colorado River Compact, states — without consulting Indigenous tribes — agreed to annual water allocations that they must use in full or face usage-based cuts the following year. This “use it or lose it” system has created what critics call absurd incentives for farmers to grow water-intensive crops in the desert.
Today, around three-quarters of the river’s flow is siphoned off to irrigate more than five million acres of farmland, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Hydroelectric plants along the Colorado also generate more than 12 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually.
In recent decades, the river has been running especially low as worsening droughts driven by the climate emergency have gripped the Southwest and as the population of the nation’s driest region explodes. The Colorado no longer empties into the sea; models predict that by the year 2100 its flow could be further reduced by more than half.
A year ago, the U.S. Department of the Interior declared the first-ever tier 1 water shortage for the Colorado River, prompting cuts to Arizona farmers amid historic drought.
Inadequate rain and snowfall over the past year have exacerbated the crisis, with Lake Mead — the largest U.S. reservoir and a product of damming the river — now at just 27% of its full capacity and Lake Powell expected to come within 5 feet of losing hydropower by early 2023.
John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the state’s lead Colorado River negotiator, warned Monday in a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland that the “unreasonable expectations of water users, including the prices and drought profiteering proposals, only further divide common goals and interests.”
“Through our collective inaction, the federal government, the basin states, and every water user on the Colorado River is complicit in allowing the situation to reach this point,” he continued.
“We are at the stage where basin-wide every drop counts, and every single drop we are short of achieving two to four million acre-feet in permanent reductions draws us a step closer to the catastrophic collapse of the system,” added Entsminger, “as well as draconian water management practices to protect health and human safety that we have successfully staved off in the past through cooperation.”
Originally published by Common Dreams.
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Don’t live in a desert. Problem solved.
E.O.M.
Whenever I encounter a person or a group I have never heard about before my first response is to look at images of the people involved.
I am never disappointed.
I know that not everyone fully understands the importance of using physiognomy in their decision making practices, but if you try- even briefly- you will discover that it not only improves your odds of avoiding problems, but of improving your outcomes when you trust your visceral response.
The organization cited in the article- Food and Water Watch- is new to me. The spokesperson quoted in the article, Research Director Amanda Starbuck, seems normal enough, but when I clicked on the link to staff- wow, direct hit.
Look at how top heavy this organization is and where all the people live. You’d think that if you were gung ho on food and water you’d live near those things, but 90% of them hail from the DC/LA/NYC collective and man what a collection.
Enjoy-
https://dev.foodandwaterwatch.org/staff/
Everyone gets to be a “Director.” LOL.
Droughts are as predictable as sunrise.
THAT’S why we build dams and store water.
This current situation was easily avoidable if
the kook enviro left had not stopped every single
water storage project for the last 60 years. Here in
CO, 5 different dams were nixed by them in my lifetime.
It happened all over the west. This has nothing to do with
climate, and everything to do with environmental leftism.
You call them environmentalists, but I call them jews and their useful idiots.
ken…Right you are. Here it is straight from a reformed Jew.
https://henrymakow.com/confessions-of-a-luciferian-jew.html
By their ages, many of them look like College-age interns, too.
My Mom needs a neurologist, so I went online to look at some possible candidates and their photos. I recommended the guy who looks like a nice guy, pleasant and friendly, and against the crazy cat-lady looking woman. It is at least as important as their credentials. Strike that. It is a lot more important.
“Frida Kieninger” (one of the pictures at that link) Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
I think they mislabled that shot; it should read “Ms. John Kerry.”
BTW John Kerry has the chin he has because it’s an implant. No shit: the guy has a prosthetic chin.
Show of hands here, how many of you know of someone personally who’s got a fake chin?
NEVER go to a minority doctor. There is a high probability
they are unqualified and got into med school and graduated
with an MD because of race and not merit. In fact, seek out a doctor
that is a white male from a wealthy family, those persons had to be
so far above everyone else in every way because med schools are
highly biased against them.
Our rural local clinic has had a steady stream of new doctors over the last decade. I assume it is an immigration requirement thing as they are all Eastern European or South African (white) and are only there for a year or so, as far as I can tell.
GREAT doctors. No tats, green hair, piercings or gender-blender-fuckheads.
The one clearly born here woman with tats and rainbow hair? Total dipshit, more interested in expressing her views on gender-identity and covid jab compliance than listening to why the patient is visiting. She is on my, “no, another doctor please” list.
Not disagreeing with you HSF and I get your point, but “don’t judge a book by its cover” carries some weight too.
No it doesn’t. Book covers are designed to convey the contents, not the other way around.
When you’ve been misled and you discover that truth, you don’t continue to follow the directions which were designed to confuse or disarm you.
Judge a book by its cover.
Ok, yes sir.
Do whatever you want.
It’s only advice, take it/leave it.
I’m taking it.
Not to be a prick, Ms. Adams…
…but the snap judgment thing is something men are considerably better at that women.
Relatively instant summations of other folks is a skillset men were granted for obvious reasons, as we were always meant to be the threat identifiers of the family.
Like my pops before me, innate and very rapid assessments of individuals is something I was always very good at, have gotten better at over the years with long experience, and am only very rarely wrong in my assessments.
Thus, some absolutely can judge a book by its cover, and the exceptions only prove the rule.
Ok, I believe you. Also, I have judged you as not being a prick….how did I do?
.500 batting average.
Red River D is, generally speaking, a PRICK!!!
Just ask Stucky. He told me so!!!
Oh my, you know what Stucky has called me?? Wonder if he has that snap judgment thing down…he is a man after all. 🤔
There have been some very spiffy looking mass murderers down through the ages – Ted Bundy comes to mind.
The whacked-out loons don’t take care of appearances, so those books can be judged by their appearance. The spiffy ones require a bit more effort.
If you think that Ted Bundy looked spiffy, then you don’t understand physiognomy. Ted looked very crazy in every photograph. Don’t confuse symmetry or a smile with the fitness of a specimen.
Not my judgment, but that of the victims who opened the door for him because he looked so nice. There have been other criminals who were able to do the same thing. It’s been said that the part of the brain handling long-term risk assessment doesn’t fully mature until around age 25, so you could say he was taking advantage of that. After the fact conclusions, based on older age and lots of experience , doesn’t help a young person who’s been told you can judge a book by its cover.
Tongue-in-cheek: look at how nicely politicians dress, with their professional haircuts. Don’t they look so nice while they slither over to the cameras?
I never confuse speciwo/men with fitness. So little is what it seems, right? In fact, instances of fitness can be disorienting, confusing, when they occasionally pop up & outta the background.
But actions speak & book covers/clothes-cosmetics-plastic surgery-etc are actions designed first to sell books/people ♪who♫need♪people♫to need those needy people (sing it, Streisand).
Just read this in a book, a few minutes ago, the cover of which is an arctic scene in the once but no longer for the now anyway Greenland (it usta be covered in trees … you just can’t judge a climate by its cover, or its geoengineering coverings …):
“Torbin pointed to a blade out of the late Dorset period. ‘These people had very specific standards about how things were made, how things had to look. They were not a very adaptable people. If their spearheads had to be made of flint & they didn’t have any flint, for example, they didn’t improvise. They went without. But in a place of great harshness & scarcity, inflexibility could lead to extinction.’ Indeed, by the tenth century, a climate change brought on the takeover of the Dorset people by the Thule people, who were very adaptable, using makeshift materials, testing new ways of making things.” ~ This Cold Heaven, Gretel Ehrlich
I’m no expert of physiognomy, but I can tell you just by looking at him that Brian Stelter (recently fired from CNN) is super gay and probably a serial killer.
I didn’t know who he was, so looked him up. Yep, gay serial killer for sure.
HF, do you have any recourses on physiognomy?
If only the water war was that simple. “Don’t live in a desert. Problem solved” That would cut out about 90% of the southwest. The fact of the matter is about 85% of the water in California runs out to the sea. The water crisis is by design. Exploding population over the last 5 decades with no real attempt to expand dams and reservoirs has brought the hardship. Nope, it’s water wars and they have been going on for centuries. Exploitation is the real villain here, we could solve this problem in less than a decade if we truly had the desire to do so. We don’t!
You’re right. The Southwest is overpopulated by a factor of 9:1 because people have chosen their comfort and ease at the expense of good judgement.
Now where are we?
Way to simple. Water takes work, I don’t care where you live. It’s not like the southwest is returning to a desert, it’s always been a desert. It’s green because we made it green, It’s natural look is brown. Maybe if we could focus on infrastructure instead of blowing up other countries and feeding the free shit army we could do some great things again. “Food and water watch” need’s to be destroyed and called what they are, criminals. And besides if they all move to your area, you might be thirsty too.
Desalinize Pacific ocean water.
50 years of doing that would still cost less than what was given to Ukraine.
The radical environmentalists prevent any and all infrastructure like reservoirs and dams … and desalinization … and they’re the ones in charge.
Banished to beyond the walls. ~ Judge(Dredd)ment is where’s weus now.
But now’s perennial.
I like mine with an s in front. Let it snow.
Snowden, too.
Of course if you live in a desert there are consequences (what is a drought in a desert?) but we’ve been hearing for decades eco shenanigans against water use. They want total control of all water. Most of this has been manipulated.
I get pics from phoenix and I’m like how do they have that park with grass, trees and a BIG pond? I wouldn’t touch that water. Most landscaping is desert- like however.
(what is a drought in a desert?) An oxymoron indeed.
Phoenix has plenty of available water. The problem is the incessant outward urban development and treatment/delivery issues.
Ever heard of the Salt River Project? (https://www.srpnet.com/about/about-srp). This organization manages 6 watersheds on the Salt and Verde River systems that collect runoff from the White Mountains/Salt River Canyon in eastern AZ and the Mogollon Rim/Verde Valley in central AZ, and flow into the Phoenix area. These watersheds are currently impounding nearly 1.5 million acre feet of water (~500 billion gallons), and it’s only 63% capacity. Last year at this time it was 69%. I’ve been casually monitoring this system for the past 20 years and these numbers are normal, values typically range from 50-75% depending on the time of year. As long as it snows and rains in the mountains, this system should provide plenty of water.
Isn’t Phoenix the global leader in Urophagia?
Phoenicians are world class piss drinkers?
Don’t forget the billion or so gallons of H2O being sent down the river to the sea to keep the snail darter illusion going … even years after UC Davis stated emphatically that the snail darter will never make it no matter how much water gets wasted.
Don’t forget, too … the extremist environmentalists — of which there are many — are, like the eugenicists and such (Bill from the Gates of Hell and his WEF cronies), eager to get rid of the human race … or, at the very least, the part of it that is not themselves.
Good thing I have a Great Lake at the end of my road.
They’ll all be moving soon enough…
Agenda 21 Explained + Depopulation Map
https://ugetube.com/watch/agenda-21-explained-depopulation-map-thumbnail_KjiJ3UQ7VDSXilm.html
You two down voters are real Pieces Of Shit, and I hope you die of thirst soon.
That’s a lot of secure salaries to support and still get anything done.
The background picture for this page tells me all I want to know. Save the kiddies.
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Nice find HSF. I noticed ‘organizer’ popped up in many of the titles. ‘agitator’ would be more accurate than ‘organizer’
I call them ‘career malcontents’ … has always seemed to fit … and, besides disrupting the lives of people who actually, you know, accomplish things — what is it that they actually ‘DO’ — besides agitate and collect big grant-based salaries?
It gets worse.
Anyone that is dependent upon Lake Powell (like my 81 year old father) is screwed. When the lake level drops below dead pool (162 feet to go the last time I checked with water level dropping 0.5 ft/day in summer) then the hydro power gets cut off. But my father was clever and installed a natural gas generator, right?
Well Dominion – the local natural gas supplier in Utah – as part of their ESG program over the last few years went and electrified all of their natural gas pipeline compressors and they no longer have the capability to operate their compressors on gas taken from the pipelines. So when the water level falls below dead pool, there is no more water. And because there is no more water, there is no more hydro electricity. And because there is no more electricity, there is no more natural gas.
So this region is facing total cutoff from water, electricity, and natural gas next year when the water level falls below dead pool. Will probably have long-term house guests starting next year,
Isn’t that how Texas fucked themselves over and all those people had their pipes freeze? The windmills froze up and then the gas pipeline turbines (previously powered by the windmills) stopped pushing the gas along the pipes? Nothing like fixing a system that had been perfectly fine.
People need to stop fixing shit.
Yep. Soon to play out across the entire western world.
The group lacks diversity… a few tokens.. a lot of fags and lesbians. No Indians (Neither dot or feather) No chinks, very few Affirmative action blacks…
“I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”
James C. Watt, Secretary of the Interior, 1983
Just looking at the titles … I wonder: just what is it that these folks ‘DO’ besides collecting (probably) very large paychecks?
Don’t live in a flood basin of people, anywhere – but especially not in a desert … which changes the lyrics: the desert is an ocean with its life Scottsdale-towned – perfectly disguised homo salines just a shufflin’ around…
There’s a wide variety of visceras. All are equal except for the more equal ones.
Random quote popped up this page: A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. — Chris Hedges
Does Hedges compass/ion point true North? I think his is The Edge scene where the leaf that is green & the paperclip that is silked bilks those boys round, to arrive where they started, to know the place for the second time, & for one of them to be meaten by Bart the Bear.
The whole world is being turned into a desert.
Nature returning that which was desert back to desert.
… dust to dust …
Choose your location wisely I always say. We went back and forth on the idea of moving more toward the west to a state with better politics, etc. I monitor drought maps and realized that west of the Mississippi, the country is 90% in a severe drought condition. That right there was enough to put off any plans of moving.
We are surrounded by water, literally swimming in it (well the kids lol). Our abundance of water is not only part of our survival plan, but also part of our security. My property is surrounded by water on 3 sides, limited access to the front only. I have bridges over a couple creeks, but for the most part entering my abode would require entering from one point and it is downhill and well within range of fast moving lead.
On that note, time to go water the gardens 🙂
It’s why I am looking at TN. TN Patriot, here we come!
We did the same thing. Made a list of the 10 most important factors for long term success, water was #1.
Have you factored in amphibious assault from one of the other 3 directions?
I am just covering bases for threats from hungry people. If an amphibious assault is happening I am in trouble. Then again, at that point they mind as well fire bomb the house from the air.
Before we bought our place one of the requirements with the real-estate agent was some type of water on the land, I wouldn’t even look at it if it didn’t have water…this was in 2012. We ended up with a 4/10ths of an acre pond, it has to be at least partially spring fed…and is positioned at the bottom of a slope for runoff.
Pulling 5 and 6 pound Catfish and 2 pound bass, smaller blue gill and perch out of it. It came with the perch, two massive snappers, about 30 other turtles and 4 adult cotton mouths, no one was living on the place for over a year…or had touched the pond for years.
Snapper Turtles & Snakes removed by Bond Arms 4/10 two shot derringer and Ruger 10/22. Other turtles constantly removed in a floating trap. We put the catfish, bass and bluegill in and feed them often. Bought a throwing net just in case we don’t have time to fish during the shitstorm.
8 Peking ducks live in a secure coop surrounded by motion lights on the shallow end. So far so good. They are regular egg layers.
Also had a good well that came with a dilapidated double wide…put a second well in (after we built a house) and went down deep for plenty of storage.
Have a hand pump line for one well and a well bucket for the other. Had the second well wired to run off my gas generator.
It is also wise to have some 55 gallon water barrels with some pool shock, plenty of portable counter 5 gallon containers. Big Berkeley, Life Savior 5 gallon water purifier with plenty of filters for both.
Last but not least rain barrels.
I have 3 ponds on my property fed by 2 separate streams that constantly run from a source of natural springs that run from a hill about 3 miles north of me. The large pond out back is roughly 3.5 acres in size created by Beavers. Lot of eviction over the years from there…beavers, otters, heron, geese…not so much with the snapping turtles or other turtles and we have a lot. Pond is filled with a lot of large mouth bass, bluegill, crappie, perch, and sunfish. We have an abundance of wild ducks as well. A pond sure brings a lot of habitat. Our front pond I made myself from another smaller stream that ran into the main stream. I stocked it with bullhead and they have gotten pretty big. Other fish have snuck in over the years. We also have peking ducks that used to lay a lot of eggs, now they are just fat and happy. Our third pond is up on the far end of the property and is a low spot where it naturally formed. We love fishing for brook trout during the spring spawning season.
hoover dam and many other projects. Along with the ‘civilian conservation corp.”,
“Public Works”. One of the biggest ubi/welfare schemes since the ‘civil’ war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States
Since the beginning, (pick a timeframe) NPC’s have outnumbered. And out bred. The ‘real’ people that soldiered through, generationally, since their forbearers indentured servitude lapsed?
Supplanted.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
The ‘Golden door’? belonged then, and belongs now…To those responsible for the plaque in the first place.
What it meant?
“gullible and naive? willing to work for subsistence wages, possibly die trying?
Enquire within”
California and Colorado use more than their allotment, but they don’t get cut….sure…
Especially California getting a pass, this is just a crime. They capture and save none of the water passing through. The Imperial valley a very arid hot desert, grows lots of alfalfa which is a very heavy water user and then ships it to China. The politics of these people is insane just like the environmentalists and climate change fools. They all think they know what is best for everyone else, while living high on the hog, it’s sickening.
This natural process has been going on for centuries out west. Up until about 1600 AD there was a large fresh water lake in central southern California called Lake Cahuilla where the surrounding shoreline was densely populated by Indians. The Colorado River used to be this lake’s water supply until a sustained period of episodic flooding 400 years ago built up new levees at the river’s current location and diverted the water south which eventually dried up Lake Cahuilla. Then from 1905-07 more flooding broke these Colorado River levees and for 2 years water flowed again into the basin this time forming what we now call the Salton Sea, which is drying up again as it did 400 years ago as there is no continuous water source provided by the Colorado River. Up until 1905 the Salton Sea was just marshy wetlands fed by the New River and Alamo River from Mexico.
Traveling around this area back in the 1980s and 1990s I was perplexed by the many fish petroglyphs I found in the surrounding mountains (especially Black Rock Canyon) and it wasn’t until the modern internet that I found out about this ancient lake. It was stuff like this that got me interested in historical geology and without such understanding it is easy to see how the media is so successful at selling natural earth processes as climate catastrophes.
That’s exactly right. And not just “out west”, but all over the entire world. For example, most of the Sahara Desert (about the size of the USA) was once lush green and had an over-abundance of water. Also, Greenland was once actually green.
Moral: Shit Happens, Deal With It.
Not once Stucky but 20 times in the last 2 million years.
Look up the Younger Dryas. You won’t hear much about this – that’s because all of the warming in the northern hemisphere happened during this period between 11,600 and 11,200 years ago. After about 8,000 years ago the Northern hemisphere has actually cooled a bit.
And BTW temperature records only go back to 1880, so when we hear about the “Hottest Day on Record” remember this only covers 142 years of an earth that is > 4,000,000,000 years old. For comparison, if this “x” represents the temperature record, then >28,000,000 x’s would represent the earth’s geologic history. It’s all very misleading and easily swallowed by idiot TV viewing dupes.
One more interesting thing – look up the Lake Missoula Deluge. This happened in eastern Washington state during this rapid Younger Dryas warming when an ice barrier broke that dammed the ancient lake Missoula and sent a 600+ foot wall of water crashing onto what is today Yakima and the surrounding area. Very Biblical and the geology (massive wave ripples 30 feet high) proves it happened.
I watched a great documentary on Missoula Deluge- never heard of it before that. Pretty convincing evidence.
Exactly and it created the Channeled Scablands in Washington, a very interesting geography. They’ve only recently (sometime in the past 25 years I think) figured out how this area was formed by this huge flash flood.
SIGH!! Another day …. another crisis, another catastrophe, another emergency, another #OhMiGawdWeAreFuckedAndGonnaDieRealSoon event.
Fuck the Colorado River! If it can’t keep itself filled that ain’t my friggin problem.
“Oh, but the PEOPLE, Stucky!!” Yeah, fuck them too. Rent a U-Haul and move.
And when the kabal gets around to turning off NJ’s water, just up and move to your other estate?
It’s an agenda, Stuck. TPTB will hammer civilization’s weakest points until we are either reduced to dehumanized, expendable slaves, or we remember how to remove sociopaths from the levers of power and get ourselves back to the hard, thoughtful work of making advanced societies function.
The magnificent Sam Kinison had a bit about African
famine. Instead of sending them food, we should send
them luggage so they can move TO WHERE THE FUCKING FOOD IS!!!!
Unfortunately they did. Greetings from Minneapolis. On the plus side, I can score you some khat.
Interesting. A few days ago I was in Parker AZ right on the Colorado river and the water level was normal, just like earlier this summer and every other time I’ve been there over the past 20 years. That whole area has been getting torrential monsoon rains this summer (along with the entire southern part of AZ), there was alot of standing water along US95 and in ag fields, and areas of the desert west of Phoenix on I-10 are greener than I’ve ever seen for this time of year
That always s seems to be the case. Downriver of Lakes Mead and Powell the river always has the same flow. They release water at a pretty constant pace in order to generate electricity and meet downstream supply agreements. It’s the lakes that get lower, not the river between/downstream from the lakes (for now anyway).
This couldn’t be related in any way, could it?
HUD Is Moving Whole Town
The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the state [of Louisiana] $48.3 million in 2016 to resettle the [Jean Charles Choctaw Nation] tribe to higher ground, the first federally funded effort to move an entire community because of climate change. Officials saw a chance to create a model of wholesale voluntary relocation for a country that urgently needs to prepare for many more such projects.
Sam Kinison sez it best:
Rather than helping them “move to where the food is” (here), I like the idea of “don’t have kids if you can’t feed them.”
One of the reasons there is so much farming (and thus water demand) is because deserts make awesome farmland, when you can get water to them.
Climate emergency…pffft. its a desert you fools. Move where the food is.
The river is not in danger from drought. It is in danger from being drained by 60 million people who are sucking more water than it can produce.
For the past 40 years, State and local politicians on the take from developers, have allowed and supported unbridled growth with no plans to provide the necessities that go along with it.
The plan all along has been to exploit the resources to the maximum extent, and then when the shit hits the fan to take their fortunes and run like hell.
How much do you think that overpriced southwest real estate is going to be worth when people are looking at $500 or $600 a month water bills.
If you think their is a mass exodus from CA now, just wait and see what happens in the future…
Read some article in Nat Geo some 10-15 years ago that basically showed that the last couple of 100 years in the west have been much more wet than average and that there would be problems if it returned to historical norms.
Here we go.
The Rhine has fallen to the point that old Roman encampments on the bank, which are usually under water, are now exposed.
So unless the land has fallen, around 2000 years ago the river level must have been lower. Was that “normal” or was the level a couple of years ago, before it fell, “normal”.
Change is NORMAL. Static is artificial and a pipe dream.